Wilfried Brauer
{{Short description|German computer scientist (1937–2014)}}
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| name = Wilfried Brauer
| image = Wilfried and Ute Brauer, July 18 1979 in Graz during the 6th ICALP conference.jpg
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| caption = Wilfried Brauer and his wife Ute Brauer in 1979, in the Landerzeughaus in Graz
| birth_date = {{birth date |1937|8|8|df=yes}}
| birth_place = Berlin, Prussia
| death_date = {{death date and age |2014|2|25 |1937|8|8|df=yes}}
| death_place = Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia
| nationality = German
| fields = Computer scientist
| workplaces = Technical University of Munich
| alma_mater = University of Bonn
| thesis_title = Zur Theorie der pro-endlichen Gruppen
| thesis_url = https://bonnus.ulb.uni-bonn.de/SummonRecord/FETCH-bonn_catalog_5867302
| thesis_year = 1966
| doctoral_advisor = Wolfgang Krull
| doctoral_students = Sepp Hochreiter
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Wilfried Brauer (8 August 1937 – 25 February 2014{{cite web |url=https://www.gi.de/aktuelles/meldungen/detailansicht/article/gi-ehrenmitglied-wilfried-brauer-verstorben.html |title=GI honorary member Wilfried Brauer passed away (in German)|date=4 March 2014 |website=Gesellschaft für Informatik |accessdate=6 March 2014}}) was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.Christian Freksa, Matthias Jantzen, Rüdiger Valk (Eds.): Foundations of Computer Science: Potential - Theory - Cognition, to Wilfried Brauer on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday. Lecture Notes in Computer Science 1337 Springer 1997, {{ISBN|3-540-63746-X}}
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.Fritz Krückeberg: Die Geschichte der GI, S. 14; 2. Auflage, November 2001, Gesellschaft für Informatik. [https://gi.de/fileadmin/GI/Hauptseite/Themen/geschichte-der-gi.pdf], retrieved on February 9th, 2021 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.{{cite news |url=http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/Newsletter/1983to2003/1999-mar.pdf|title=IFIP Newsletter|date=March 1999}}
He received several awards and honours:
- Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966){{cite news|url=http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/90900/ |title=Ehrendoktorwürde für Prof. Wilfried Brauer (in German)|website=www.uni-protokolle.de}}
- IFIP Silver Core (1986)
- honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996)[http://www.informatik.uni-hamburg.de/Info/ueber_uns/ehrungen_brauer.shtml Granting of honorary doctorate for Prof. Dr. rer.nat. Wilfried Brauer (in German)]
- Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)
- IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002){{cite news |url=http://www.ifip.org/images/stories/ifip/public/Newsletter/1983to2003/2002-sep.pdf|title=IFIP Newsletter|date=September 2002}}
- honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)[http://www.inf.fu-berlin.de/deprecated/ehrendoktor/brauer/ FU-Berlin: Institut für Informatik: Wilfried Brauer]
- One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (2014, posthumous).{{citation|title=EATCS names 2014 fellows|department=Milestones: Computer Science Awards, Appointments|journal=Communications of the ACM|volume=58|issue=1|date=January 2015|page=24|doi=10.1145/2686734}}
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., [https://www.springer.com/series/3214 publisher's page].
References
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External links
- {{cite web | url = http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/indices/a-tree/b/Brauer:Wilfried.html | title = Wilfried Brauer Bibliography | publisher = The DBLP Computer Science Bibliography | accessdate = May 9, 2009}}
- [http://genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=50689 Wilfried Brauer] at the mathematics genealogy project
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Category:German theoretical computer scientists
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