Arno Schulz

Arno Schulz (born February 29, 1924 in Glogau , Silesia ; † June 6, 2008 in Sierning, Upper Austria ) was a German-Austrian computer scientist. He was a university professor for computer science at the Johannes Kepler University Linz . He retired in 1994 .

Life

After graduating from high school in 1942, he was drafted into the Wehrmacht . He served on the Eastern Front as a radio operator and communications engineer. His unit reached up to 60 km from Moscow . He then withdrew to Schleswig-Holstein , where he was captured by the British. From 1946 he was busy building rubble in Stuttgart.

In 1947 he began studying communications engineering at the TH Stuttgart . He graduated from this in 1952 and became a university assistant. In 1954 he received his doctorate as Dr. techn. In November 1954 he began a career at IBM that took him from the IBM laboratory in Böblingen to the USA, Japan and finally Austria. He was the head of software development for Systems 360 in the area of ​​system engineering.

From 1964 he held lectures at the Technical University of Berlin on data processing in the curriculum of business administration and industrial engineering on the initiative of Konrad Mellerowicz . Habilitation in 1969 with the work "Structural Analysis ..." mentioned in the literature section. He was then appointed to the newly founded University of Social and Economic Sciences in Linz (today: Johannes Kepler University Linz ), where he began his service on April 1, 1971. Together with Adolf Adam , he was instrumental in building up the computer science course in Linz. For a long time he was head of the Institute for Computer Science . He was also involved in the expansion of the data center (formerly the Central Informatics Service , today Information Management ), of which he was head until his retirement.

In 1973 he was a co-founder of the Austrian Society for Computer Science (ÖGI). Schulz and the ÖGI were also involved in the establishment of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG). Schulz became a board member of the OCG and was an honorary member until his death.

Awards

• Silver medal of the Province of Upper Austria

literature

• Arno Schulz: Structural analysis of machine operational data processing , de Gruyter, Berlin 1970
• Arno Schulz: Introduction to programming in PL / 1 , de Gruyter, Berlin 1975 and 1984
• Arno Schulz: Computer science for users , de Gruyter, Berlin 1973
• Arno Schulz: Higher PL / 1 programming , de Gruyter, Berlin 1976
• Arno Schulz: Methods of software design and structured programming , de Gruyter, Berlin 1978 and 1982
• Arno Schulz: software design. , de Gruyter, Berlin 1978, 1990 and 1992
• Arno Schulz: Introduction to programming in PL / 1 , de Gruyter, Berlin 1975 and 1984
• Arno Schulz (ed.): The future of information systems , de Gruyter, Berlin 1970
• Arno Schulz (Ed.): Series of publications on commercial data processing , de Gruyter, Berlin 1967 to 2001 (15 vols.)
• Jörg R. Mühlbacher: Obituary em. o. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Arno Schulz , in: OCG-Journal, issue 4/2008