Andreas Reuter (computer scientist)

Andreas Reuter (born October 31, 1949 in Brandis near Leipzig ) is a German computer science professor and science manager. His research focus is on databases , transaction systems as well as parallel and distributed systems. Reuter has been scientific and managing director of EML European Media Laboratory GmbH since 1998 and was managing director of HITS gGmbH from 2010 to 2016 . In October 2015 he was appointed Senior Professor at Heidelberg University.

Life

During his school days he volunteered in the company founded by Konrad Zuse in Bad Hersfeld . After graduating from high school in 1968, he worked as a freelance programmer for companies and authorities. From 1973 he studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich and the Technical University of Darmstadt and graduated with a diploma in 1978 in Darmstadt. As a research assistant he became a Dr.-Ing. In 1981 with Theo Härder and Hartmut Wedekind. PhD. From 1981 to 1983 he was a university assistant at the University of Kaiserslautern. In 1983 he went to the IBM Research Center in San Jose as a postdoc. In 1985 he accepted a position at the University of Stuttgart. There he became founding director of the Institute for Parallel and Distributed Supercomputers in 1988. From 1992 to 1996 he was Vice Rector for Teaching at the University of Stuttgart. In 1996 he turned down an offer from the Max Planck Society as director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Saarbrücken. Instead, from 1997 he worked on the establishment and development of the private "International University in Germany", where he was Dean and Vice President until 2004.

On January 1, 1998, he was appointed Scientific and Managing Director of EML European Media Laboratory GmbH, which Klaus Tschira founded in 1997. There, together with Klaus Tschira, he was significantly involved in building up the company and its sister company EML Research gGmbH (from 2003). The Heidelberg Institute for Theoretical Studies (HITS) emerged from EML Research in 2010, and was its managing director until April 2016.

In 2007, Andreas Reuter took over an endowed professorship for “Reliable Systems” at the University of Kaiserslautern, supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation . In 2011 he moved to Heidelberg University. Until his retirement he held an endowed professorship for “Distributed Systems” supported by the Klaus Tschira Foundation. The Technical University of Donetsk (Ukraine) awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1994. He has been a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery since 2019 .

Research and functions

Andreas Reuter's research focus is on databases, transaction systems and parallel and distributed systems. Together with the Turing Award winner James “Jim” Gray , he published the book “Transaction Processing: Concepts and Techniques” in 1992, which became a standard work for researchers and developers around the world and was translated into Chinese and Japanese, among other things. Together with Theo Härder , he worked out a definition of the transaction-oriented processing model in (distributed) databases, which is still frequently cited today under its acronym ACID (atomicity, consistency, isolation, durability).

In addition to his research, Andreas Reuter carried out numerous consulting projects and gave lectures on many topics in the industrial and university sectors. He works in numerous advisory bodies in research and industry and is among other things. a. external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPII) in Saarbrücken and member of the Board of Trustees of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy (MPIA) in Heidelberg.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.eml.org/deutsch/unternehmen/
2. ↑ https://www.h-its.org/aktuelles/lösungen-reuter/
3. ↑ http://www.uni-heidelberg.de/presse/news2015/pm20151028_andreas-reuter-zum-seniorprofessor-der-universitaet-heidelberg-ernannt.html