Bernd Becker (computer scientist)

Bernd Becker (* 1954 in Hermeskeil ) is a German computer scientist and university professor .

Becker studied 1973-1982 mathematics at the University of Saarland and received his doctorate there in 1982 Graph Theory . From 1981 to 1989 he researched and taught with short breaks at Saarland University. After his habilitation with a work on Boolean circuits in 1988, he became professor for complexity theory and efficient algorithms at the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University in Frankfurt am Main in 1989 . In 1992 he was offered an offer at the University of Essen , which he refused. Instead he moved to the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg in 1995 , where he took over the chair for computer architecture . From 2010 to 2012 he was dean of the technical faculty in Freiburg.

Becker completed several research stays at companies such as Siemens (1982 and 1985) or Mentor Graphics (2002–2003) and was visiting professor at the University of Tokyo in 2009 and 2010 . Becker has been a member of the Academia Europaea since 2011 . He also serves on several boards at the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers .

Becker received special attention for his project Smartphones in teaching ( Smile ). Smile is a web application with which the lecturer and the audience can interact during a lecture. For this project, Becker was awarded the teaching development award from the University of Freiburg and a fellowship from the Baden-Württemberg Foundation, the Joachim Herz Foundation and the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft .

Publications

• About the crossing-free, right-angled embedding of weighted graphs in the plane , Saarbrücken 1982 (dissertation)
• with Paul Molitor : Technical Informatics. An introductory presentation , Oldenbourg, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-486-58650-3

Web links

• Literature by and about Bernd Becker in the catalog of the German National Library
• Bernd Becker's CV at the University of Freiburg
• Homepage of Smile