Wilfried Brauer
German computer scientist (1937–2014)
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Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014[1]) was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.[2]
Wilfried Brauer | |
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Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute Brauer in 1979, in the Landerzeughaus in Graz | |
| Born | 8 August 1937 Berlin, Prussia |
| Died | 25 February 2014 (aged 76) |
| Alma mater | University of Bonn |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Computer scientist |
| Institutions | Technical University of Munich |
| Thesis | Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen (1966) |
| Doctoral advisor | Wolfgang Krull |
| Doctoral students | |
Life and work
Brauer studied Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy at the Free University of Berlin. He received a PhD in Mathematics 1966 from the University of Bonn for a dissertation on the theory of profinite groups.
Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute were two of the 19 founding members of the German Informatics Society.[3] From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of the German Informatics Society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing.[4]
He received several awards and honours:
- Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966)[5]
- IFIP Silver Core (1986)
- honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996)[6]
- Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)[5]
- IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002)[7]
- honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)[8]
- One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (2014, posthumous).[9]
Publications
Below is a selection of books written by Brauer.
- Über das Turingsche Modell einer Rechenmaschine und den Begriff des Algorithmus, Diploma Thesis, Freie Universität Berlin, 1962
- Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen. Doctorate Thesis, Universität Bonn, 1968 (Advisor: Wolfgang Krull)
- with Klaus Indermark: Algorithmen, Rekursive Funktionen und Formale Sprachen (in German), 1968.
- Automatentheorie (in German), Teubner 1984.
- with Friedrich L. Bauer and H. Schwichtenberg: Logic and Algebra of Specifications, 1993
- Editorship
- Wilfried Brauer (ed.): Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 3. Jahrestagung, Hamburg, 8.-10. Oktober 1973. Lecture Notes in Computer Science Volume 1, Springer 1973
- Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Series Editors: Brauer, W., Hromkovič, J., Rozenberg, G., Salomaa, A., publisher's page.