Adolf Adam (computer scientist)

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Adolf Adam (born February 9, 1918 in Pürgg , Styria , † August 7, 2004 in Linz , Upper Austria ) was an Austrian statistician and computer scientist .

Life

After elementary school in Pürgg and secondary school in Graz and Bad Goisern, Adam attended a two-year commercial school in Salzburg. From 1934 to 1938 he completed the higher department for electronics at the Federal Trade School Graz-Gösting, which he completed with a high school diploma. In 1939 he began studying technical physics and actuarial mathematics at the Vienna University of Technology . The Second World War interrupted his training, and from 1940 to 1945 he was drafted into military service. He served as a non-commissioned officer in the acceptance service for low-voltage technology .

After the war he resumed his studies. He chose applied mathematics as a subject at the Graz University of Technology . However, this subject was closed in 1946. He switched to the Montanistische Hochschule Leoben for two years , where he studied mining and mining . In 1947 he moved to Vienna, where he became a research assistant at the Institute for Statistics at the University of Vienna under Wilhelm Winkler . He studied mathematical statistics and on July 7th, 1954 at the University of Vienna with Edmund Hlawka on "Discrete Distributions" he was awarded a doctorate. phil. PhD .

In addition to his position at the university, he worked as a consultant . He acquired the unique trade license as " arithmetic master ". As an industrial consultant , he came into contact with program-controlled computing systems.

In 1959 he became a university assistant at the Institute for Statistics at the University of Vienna. The license to teach the entire field of statistics was granted to him in 1960. In 1963 he received an Alexander von Humboldt scholarship from the University of Cologne and was visiting professor for business statistics there in the summer semester . A year later, in 1964, he was appointed university professor at the University of Vienna. In the following year he was appointed to the University of Cologne, where he headed what was then the largest institute for statistics in German-speaking countries with 15 employees and around 800 to 1000 students.

In 1966 he was appointed to the newly founded University of Social and Economic Sciences (today: Johannes Kepler University Linz ) in Linz . He was head of the Institute for Statistics and Data Processing. Adam obtained the establishment of a full academic degree in statistics . In addition, he helped set up the technical and natural sciences faculty . He created the Linz Information Science Program (LIP) and thus paved the way for the establishment of computer science as a recognized field of study. The first lectures were held within the framework of the LIP as early as the winter semester 1967/68, outside of the official university operations. He is also considered a pioneer and promoter of the establishment of business informatics at the University of Linz.

From 1967 to 1968 he was rector of the university. He was a co-founder of the technical and natural science faculty in 1968 and its founding dean . In 1971 the state approval of the computer science course followed. At his instigation, the former University of Social and Economic Sciences was renamed to Johannes Kepler University after the astronomer Johannes Kepler, who previously worked in Linz . In 1972 Adam was able to extend his teaching license to applied computer science and educational economics .

In 1988 Adolf Adam retired .

Adolf Adam Computer Science Prize

The student prize named after Adolf Adam was awarded for the first time in 2011 by the Computer Science Department of the Johannes Kepler University Linz. The jury was made up of students from Adam.

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  1. ↑ Lutz Jürgen Heinrich , Armin Heinzl, Friedrich Roithmayr: Wirtschaftsinformatik - Introduction and foundation, 3rd edition, Oldenbourg Wissenschaftsverlag, Munich / Vienna 2007, 39
  2. ^ Franz Strehl (Ed.): Johannes Kepler University Linz, University Press Trauner, Linz
  3. ↑ Adolf-Adam-Informatikpreis ( Memento of the original from September 13, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.jku.at
  4. ↑ List of all decorations awarded by the Federal President for services to the Republic of Austria from 1952 (PDF; 6.9 MB)
personal data
SURNAME Adam, Adolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian statistician and computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH February 9, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Pürgg , Styria
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 2004
Place of death Linz , Upper Austria