Albert Endres

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Albert Endres (1999)

Albert Endres (born December 17, 1932 ) is a German computer scientist and emeritus professor at the Technical University of Munich .

Life

Endres studied geodesy at the University of Bonn and Ohio State University since 1952 . From 1957 to 1992 he worked at IBM, first in the data center and then in development. There he dealt with the development of programming languages , compilers , operating and database systems . In 1968 he founded the German Chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), which he chaired for three years.

Endres received his PhD rer. nat. in computer science (1975) and was appointed honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart in 1986 . There he taught from 1976 to 1992 as a lecturer in computer science. Endres then taught computer science for one semester at the University of Rostock and was full-time professor of computer science at the Technical University of Munich at the chair for software engineering from 1993 to 1997. From 1995 to 1997 he headed the Multimedia Electronic Documents (MeDoc) project on behalf of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) , a joint research project on digital libraries in which 30 German universities and colleges and 14 publishers were involved. As a hobby, Endres does local research and publishes on local history and regional history.

Works

Albert Endres is the author or co-author of several books and has written numerous scientific and non-technical publications. They deal on the one hand with computer science and on the other hand with the regional history of the southern Eifel. From 1985 to 1999 he was editor-in-chief of the journal Informatik - Research and Development (today: Computer Science - Research and Development ). He has been running the Internet blog Bertals Blog since 2011 , in which he discusses a wide range of topics from politics and economics to science and technology to sociology and philosophy in over 600 articles.

Selected books

  • Analysis and verification of programs. Systematic procedures and investigations for creating error-free software.
  • Stories from the Eifel homeland. A collection of local history articles about Niederweis and the southern Eifel.

Co-author

Awards and honors

  • 1986: Honorary professor at the University of Stuttgart
  • 2003: Fellow of the Society for Computer Science (GI)
  • 2008: ACM Service Award
  • 2010: IEEE Life Senior member

literature

  • Andreas Barth, Michael Breu, Albert Endres and Arnoud de Kemp (Eds.): Digital Libraries in Computer Science: the MeDoc Approach. Springer Publishing, London 1998.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Endres, Norbert Fuhr: Students access books and journals through MeDoc . In: Communications of the ACM . tape 41 , no. 4 , April 1, 1998, pp. 76-77 , doi : 10.1145 / 273035.273058 .
  2. Bertal's blog. In: bertalsblog.blogspot.com. Retrieved December 27, 2019 .
  3. ^ Albert Endres: Analysis and verification of programs: systematic procedures and investigations for creating error-free software . R. Oldenbourg, Munich 1977, ISBN 3-486-21361-X .
  4. ^ Albert Endres: Stories from the Eifelheimat: a collection of local history articles about Niederweis and the South Eifel . Endres, Sindelfingen 2008, ISBN 978-3-00-022890-2 .