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Name
  
Wilfried Brauer


Role
  
Computer scientist

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Died
  
February 25, 2014, Bonn, Germany

Books
  
Guide to Study and Research in Informatics

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Wilfried Brauer (* August 8, 1937 in Berlin, Germany, † February 25, 2014 in Bonn, Germany) was a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Technical University of Munich.

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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.

From 1998 to 2001, he was chairman of Gesellschaft für Informatik, the German computer science society. From 1994 to 1999, he was vice president of the International Federation of Information Processing.

He received several awards and honours:

  • Felix Hausdorff-Gedächtnispreis (1966)
  • IFIP Silver Core (1986)
  • honorary doctor of the University of Hamburg (1996)
  • Werner Heisenberg Medal (2000)
  • IFIP Isaac L. Auerbach Award (2002)
  • honorary doctor of the Freie Universität Berlin (2004)
  • One of ten inaugural fellows of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science (2014, posthumous).

    • 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.

    • References

    Wilfried Brauer Wikipedia
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