Debora Weber-Wulff
Debora Weber-Wulff (born May 11, 1957 in Butler , Pennsylvania , USA ) is a German computer scientist and university professor . She has been teaching media informatics at the Berlin University of Applied Sciences since 2001 .
Life
Debora Weber-Wulff, a native of the United States, studied applied physics at the University of California, San Diego and from 1976 computer science at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel . As a graduate computer scientist, she worked, among other things, at Norsk Data , from 1989 back in Kiel, from 1991 at the Free University of Berlin and from 1993 as a professor at the Technical University of Berlin . She did her doctorate in 1996 with the topic Contributions to Mechanical Proofs of Correctness for Compiler Front-Ends at the Institute for Computer Science and Practical Mathematics at the Christian-Albrechts-Universität zu Kiel.
Since 2010 Debora Weber-Wulff has been an appointed member of the expert commission to review the appointment practice in the state of Brandenburg .
Weber-Wulff is committed to countering plagiarism at universities. She is the author of the online self-study course Finding Stranger Feathers , which makes it easier to identify plagiarism. She works under the name WiseWoman ( Wise Woman ) on the VroniPlag Wiki and since 2004 on Wikipedia.
Awards
In 2018 she was made a Fellow of the Society for Computer Science.
Fonts
- Contributions to mechanical proofs of correctness for compiler front ends. Institute for Computer Science and Practical Mathematics. Kiel 1997 (also dissertation, University of Kiel 1996).
- with Christina Class, Wolfgang Coy , Constanze Kurz and David Zellhöfer: Remorse - Ethical Problems in Computer Science. Biometrics - data protection - intellectual property. transcript, Bielefeld 2009, ISBN 978-3-8376-1221-9 .
- False Feathers - A Perspective on Academic Plagiarism . Heidelberg: Springer. 2014. ISBN 978-3-642-39960-2
- Debora Weber-Wulff: Plagiarism detectors are a crutch, and a problem . In: Nature . tape 567 , no. 7749 , March 27, 2019, ISSN 0028-0836 , p. 435-435 , doi : 10.1038 / d41586-019-00893-5 ( nature.com [accessed March 30, 2019]).
Web links
- Literature by and about Debora Weber-Wulff in the catalog of the German National Library
- Weber-Wulff at the HTW
- Plagiarism portal including learning unit "Find foreign feathers"
- "It's so easy to find plagiarism" - Interview on Deutschlandradio on April 13, 2011 (accessed on August 31, 2012)
- "An uncomfortable woman" - article in Zeit Online from August 24, 2013 (accessed on August 24, 2013)
- "A visit to Debora Weber-Wulff, HTW Berlin" - detailed interview in the digital science podcast(episode # 3) on July 4, 2018 (accessed on July 9, 2018)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Weber-Wulff, Debora Contributions to Mechanical Proofs of Correctness for Compiler Front-Ends Dissertation , published in Technical Report 9707 (Report No. 7), April 1997
- ↑ Finding Stranger Feathers (June 3, 2010)
- ↑ "Verprellter lover or member of the SPD, it does not matter" , SpOn from August 6, 2011
- ↑ future of Wikipedia: Lust loss in the lexicon machine on Spiegel Online from 1 December 2009
- ↑ Appointment as Fellow of the Society for Computer Science (PDF)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weber-Wulff, Debora |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-American computer scientist, university professor and plagiarism expert |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 11, 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Butler (Pennsylvania) |