Britta Schinzel

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Britta Schinzel (* 1943 ) is a retired professor of mathematics and computer science .

Schinzel became known for her work on gender relations in computer science and helped shape the subject of computer science and society in Germany.

Career

Schinzel studied mathematics, physics, philosophy and music in Innsbruck and Vienna. After her studies she worked in compiler development in the emerging IT industry. In 1979 she completed her habilitation at the Technical University of Darmstadt with a thesis from theoretical computer science , On the category of program bundles. Further work in theoretical computer science originated in the 1970s.

From 1981 to 1991 Schinzel was a professor of theoretical computer science at RWTH Aachen University , where she worked on learning theory, complexity theory and artificial intelligence . As a visiting scholar at the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in 1991 in Berkeley , California , she began an interdisciplinary exchange with sociology , biology , medicine and women's studies .

In 1991, Schinzel was appointed to the professorship for computer science and society at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg , which she held until she retired in 2008. The Department of Modeling and Social Consequences of the Institute for Computer Science and Society at the University of Freiburg was linked to the professorship, which was dissolved when Schinzel left.

This department was one of the few computer science institutions at German universities with a dedicated social science focus. Among other things, the competence forum for gender research in computer science and natural sciences [gin] was created there .

In recognition of her services to gender research and the examination of the social consequences of computer science, Schinzel was made a Fellow of the Society for Computer Science in 2009 . From September 2014 to March 2015 she was also a fellow of the DFG research group Media Cultures in Computer Simulation (MECS).

Schinzel is a board member of the Forum for Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF eV) .

Works

  • About the Hilbert function and syzygy chains of the Grassmann ideal. Dissertation. University of Innsbruck, 1968.
  • Via the category of program bundles. Habilitation thesis. 1979, DNB 810703777 .
  • Ed. Interfaces. On the relationship between IT and society. Vieweg Verlag, Wiesbaden / Braunschweig 1996, ISBN 3-528-05537-5 .
  • Edited with Sigrid Schmitz: Grenzgang: Gender research in computer science and natural sciences. Ulrike Helmer Verlag, Königstein 2004, ISBN 3-89741-155-5 .
  • Edited with Peter Bittner a. a .: Social responsibility in the digitally networked world , Kritische Informatik, Lit Verlag, December 15, 2014, ISBN 3-64312-876-2 .
  • Edited by Rudolf Schönwald - Graphics tells , Mandelbaum Verlag, Vienna / Berlin 2018, ISBN 978385476-580-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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 / wit.tuwien.ac.at
  2. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.genderandscience.de
  3. ↑ Prof. Dr. Britta Schinzel. on the website of the Albert Ludwig University of Freiburg
  4. ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from August 25, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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.genderandscience.de
  5. ↑ Personal details . (PDF; 3.1 MB) In: Freiburg University Magazine. 5/08, p. 25.
  6. ↑ http://mod.iig.uni-freiburg.de/cms/index.html
  7. ↑ http://www.gi.de/wir-ueber-uns/lösungen/fellowship.html
  8. ^ Portrait of Britta Schinzel ( Memento from February 16, 2015 in the Internet Archive )
  9. ↑ http://fiff.de/about/fiff-vorstand
personal data
SURNAME Schinzel, Britta
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German university lecturer, professor of mathematics and computer science
DATE OF BIRTH 1943