Christoph Meinel (computer scientist)

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Christoph Meinel (2004)

Christoph Meinel (born April 14, 1954 in Meißen ) is a German computer scientist and professor for Internet technologies and systems at the University of Potsdam . In 2019 he was appointed to the "New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame".

Life

Meinel studied 1974-1979 mathematics and computer science at the Humboldt University of Berlin , was in 1981 on issues of complexity theory doctorate (Dr. rer. Nat.) And (Dr. sc. Nat.) Habilitated in 1988 with the signature branching Modified programs and their computational power . From 1992 to 2004 he was professor for theoretical concepts and new applications in computer science at the University of Trier . From 1996 to 2002 he was founding director of the Institut für Telematik e. V. in Trier, which dealt with issues in the field of Internet and web technologies under the supervision of the Fraunhofer Society. From 1995 to 2007 he was a member of the scientific directorate of the International Meeting and Research Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl . From 2002 to 2010 he was visiting professor and senior research fellow at the University of Luxembourg , he is honorary professor at the School of Computer Sciences at the Technical University of Beijing ( People's Republic of China ), and visiting professor at the universities of Shanghai and Dalian. Since 2004 Meinel has been institute director and managing director of the Hasso Plattner Institute for Digital Engineering gGmbH (HPI) and dean of the "Digital Engineering" faculty at the University of Potsdam. He is a member of acatech , the national German academy of technical sciences, and a teacher at the HPI School of Design Thinking.

research

Meinel's work focus was initially on theoretical computer science , and here in the area of complexity theory and binary decision diagrams . Later he dealt with Internet technologies , IT security and new forms of teaching and learning on the Internet, such as teleteaching and e-learning with tele-TASK and openHPI . He then did research on information and internet security issues, e.g. B. the highly secure network protection Lock-Keeper , the protection against undesired and offensive content and the security in service-based architectures with applications in telemedicine. He also deals scientifically with questions of knowledge management on the Internet and new forms of Internet-based teaching and learning tele-TASK. He heads the HPI-Stanford research program on design thinking and develops tools for remote collaboration between distributed design teams.

The online platform openHPI.de , developed under his leadership, offers interactive online courses, so-called MOOCs ( Massive Open Online Course ), on topics relating to digitization technologies. More than 700,000 learners are enrolled (as of Feb. 2020). openHPI also offers qualified certificates for conducting online courses. The identity of the course participants is verified via the webcam and online learning opportunities and certifications are given weight.

In addition, Christoph Meinel is involved in the field of digital education in schools and heads nationwide working groups that develop concepts and safe working environments for future learning. The projects "Bildungscloud" and "HPI Schul-Cloud" go back to his initiative, which provide a low-threshold access to digital educational offers and enable the use of digital educational offers in the German education sector and in German schools in compliance with data protection regulations. The HPI School Cloud, which has meanwhile been funded by the BMBF and developed under its leadership, offers teachers and students a data protection-compliant digital learning environment in which they can securely save and exchange their texts, presentations and data and in which they can access learning software from various providers in pseudonymised form. The HPI Schul-CLoud is in use at more than 300 schools (as of February 2020) in various federal states

Meinel is the owner of various international patents ( e.g. Lock-Keeper ) and has developed the teleteaching system tele-TASK and the online collaboration tool Tele-Board.

editor

Meinel is the initiator and responsible for the online learning platform openHPI . He is editor of the book series Understanding Innovation by Springer-Verlag and the scientific e-journal ECDTR - Electronic Colloquium on Design Thinking Research. Meinel was a co-founder and developer of the ECCC - Electronic Colloquium on Computational Complexity and was editor of the online journal on complexity theory until 2016.

Science organization

Meinel heads the Steering Committee of the HPI Future SOC Lab, is Chairman of the German IPv6 Council, member of the board of the MINT-EC Association and is a member of the Security Advisory Board of SAP. Together with Hasso Plattner, he hosted the 1st National IT Summit (HPI, Potsdam, 2006) of the German Chancellor Angela Merkel and, together with Larry Leifer from Stanford University, is the initiator and program director of the HPI-Stanford Design Thinking Research Program, which started in 2008 . In 2019 Christoph Meinel was inducted into the New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame . This honored his commitment to the development and dissemination of the new IPv6 Internet protocol standard over decades.

Meinel on creditworthiness-related data mining in connection with a previously planned cooperation with Schufa

After public criticism, the Hasso Plattner Institute, headed by Meinel, abandoned the plan in 2012 to research, on behalf of Schufa , which information from the Internet would allow statements about the creditworthiness of people. Meinel defended the data mining project , as it was important to research the meaningfulness of publicly available data if companies were to collect it uncritically and draw conclusions e.g. B. to overindebtedness . He pointed out that technology can always be used bivalently and that it is the task of science to question what is technically possible.

“From an ethical point of view, of course, not everything is allowed that is not prohibited. As scientists, we examine technology, show its potential and its risks. Abuse of the techniques is just as possible as good use; this applies to all techniques. And yes, unfortunately a lot of energy goes into the misuse of techniques, just think of the hacker scene on the Internet. "

- Christoph Meinel

literature

Computer science books

  • Christoph Meinel .: Efficient Algorithms - Design and Analysis. Fachbuchverlag Leipzig, 1991, ISBN 3-343-00732-3 .
  • Christoph Meinel, Sophie Tison (Eds.): STACS 99 - 16th Annual Symposium on Theoretical Aspects of Computer Science. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 1999, ISBN 3-540-65691-X .
  • Christoph Meinel, Harald Sack: WWW - communication, internetworking, web technologies . Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2004, ISBN 3-540-44276-6 .
  • Christoph Meinel, Thorsten Theobald: Algorithms and data structures in VLSI design. OBDDs - Basics and Applications. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-63869-8 .
  • Christoph Meinel, Harald Sack: Digital communication. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-540-92922-2 .
  • Serge Linckels, Christoph Meinel: E-Librarian Service - User Friendly Semantic Search in Digital Libraries. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-642-17742-2
  • Christoph Meinel, Harald Sack: Internet working. Springer Verlag, Heidelberg, 2012 ISBN 978-3-540-92939-0 .
  • Anne Kayem, Christoph Meinel: Information Security in Diverse Computing Environments. IGI Global Books, Hershey 2014, ISBN 978-1-4666-6158-5 .
  • Christoph Meinel, Harald Sack: Security and Trust on the Internet. A technical perspective. Springer-Verlag, Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2014, ISBN 978-3-658-04833-4 .
  • Christoph Meinel, Justus Broß, Philipp Berger, Patrick Hennig: Blogosphere and its Exploration. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg 2015. ISBN 978-3-662-44409-2
  • Anne Kayem, Stephen Wolthusen, Christoph Meinel (Eds.): Smart Micro-Grid Systems Security and Privacy, in: Advances in Information Security, Vol 71, Springer 2018. ISBN 978-3-319-91426-8
  • Christina Schatz, Christoph Meinel, Klaus Zierer (eds.): Learning 4.0. Education over technology. Best practice teaching examples for the secondary level, Schneider Verlag Hohengehren GmbH, Baltmannsweiler. ISBN 978-3-834-01770-3

Design thinking books

  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Ulrich Weinberg: Design Thinking - learning to innovate, opening up worlds of ideas. mi-Wirtschaftsbuch, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86880-013-5 .
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Understand, Improve, Apply. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 3-642-13757-1 .
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Studying Co-Creation in Practice. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-21642-8 .
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Measuring Performance in Context. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2012, ISBN 978-3-642-31991-4 .
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Building Innovation Eco-Systems. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-319-01303-9 .
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Building Innovators , Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2015. ISBN 978-3-319-06823-7 .
  • Christoph Meinel, Ulrich Weinberg, Timm Krohn (Eds.): Design Thinking Live. Murmann Verlag, Hamburg, 2015, ISBN 978-3-86774-427-0 .
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Making Design Thinking Foundational. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-19641-1
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Taking Breakthrough Innovation Home. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2016. ISBN 978-3-319-40382-3 .
  • Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (Eds.): Design Thinking - Making Destinctions: Collaboration versus Cooperation. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2017. ISBN 978-3-319-60967-6 .
  • Christoph Meinel, Larry Leifer (eds.): Design Thinking - Looking Further: Design Thinking Beyond Solution-Fixation. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2019. ISBN 978-3-319-40382-3 .
  • Steven Ney, Christoph Meinel (eds.): Design Thinking - Putting Design Thinking to Work. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 2016. ISBN 978-3-030-19609-7 .

Mathematics textbook

  • Christoph Meinel, Martin Mundhenk: Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science . Vieweg + Teubner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1st edition, 2015, ISBN 3-8348-1520-9 , 6th edition, 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-09885-8

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Proof of achievement on openHPI. In: open.hpi.de. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  2. ↑ Education cloud . November 21, 2016. Retrieved November 21, 2016 .
  3. ↑ School cloud. November 15, 2016, accessed November 21, 2016 .
  4. ^ ECCC. Retrieved August 14, 2018 .
  5. ↑ https://www.ipv6halloffame.org/ New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame.
  6. ↑ HPI Director appointed to the Hall of Fame of the IPv6 Forum for New Internet. Retrieved December 8, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Sonja Pohlmann: Hasso Plattner Institute and the Schufa: "There was never an order to spy on people." In: Der Tagesspiegel , June 16, 2012, p. 34
personal data
SURNAME Meinel, Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Meissen