Dieter Seitzer

Dieter Seitzer (born April 17, 1933 in Tübingen ) is a German electrical engineer who researched the data reduction of digitized signals and their microelectronic implementation for applications in the audio and video sector.

Life

Dieter Seitzer studied and graduated in 1952 at the Technical University of Stuttgart in the subject Electrical Engineering and was from 1962 in the IBM Zurich Research Laboratory in Rüschlikon in Switzerland operates. In 1970 he accepted the call to professor at the new chair for "Technical Electronics" at the Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen.

Services

As a professor, Dieter Seitzer set the first research priorities in data reproduction for image and sound signals and the implementation of the necessary components and circuits . From 1977 to 1979 he was dean of the technical faculty. In 1981, Seitzer initiated the establishment of the contact point for research and technology transfer at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg as the representative for technology transfer at the Technical Faculty. In 1984 the new center for microelectronics and information technology was founded, which later became the Institute for Integrated Circuits , which he set up and directed - today the largest institute within the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft . From 1999 to 2005 he was the first honorary president of the Bavarian Research Foundation . A crucial research element was the consideration of the physiological properties of the sensory channels . Seitzer is considered a pioneer of the MP3 audio coding process . He is the emeritus holder of the chair for technical electronics at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and founding director of the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS) .

Seitzer has been married to his wife Ilse since 1959 and has three daughters and seven grandchildren.

honors and awards

• 1988 Federal Cross of Merit, 1st class
• 1992 Beckurts Prize
• 1998 Golden Ring of Honor of the City of Erlangen
• 2001 NET21 prize “for the most influential internet software development” for the development of the MP3 standard together with Heinz Gerhäuser
• 2002 Bavarian Order of Merit
• 2005 Helmut Volz Medal from the Technical Faculty of the Friedrich Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg
• 2005 Medal of Honor from the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS
• 2006 Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
• 2007 Induction into the Hall of Fame of the Consumer Electronics Association , USA

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c} Peter Budig: What does ... Professor Dieter Seitzer actually do. In: WiM - Wirtschaft in Mittelfranken, edition 10/2010. Nuremberg Chamber of Commerce and Industry for Middle Franconia, p. 63 , accessed on April 1, 2012 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} Prof. Seitzer on his 75th birthday. (No longer available online.) In: Im Blickpunkt 2/2008. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), p. 3 , archived from the original on November 5, 2011 ; Retrieved April 1, 2012 . 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.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} Bavarian Maximilian Order to Prof. Dr. Dieter Seitzer: Highest honors for Erlangen professor. In: Mediendienst FAU-Aktuell No. 4489. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, January 23, 2006, accessed on April 1, 2012 . 
4. ↑ Prof. Dr. Dieter Seitzer on his 75th birthday. (No longer available online.) In: Mediendienst FAU-Aktuell No. 103/2008. Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg, April 10, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
5. ^ The Foundation: History - Organs and Office. Bavarian Research Foundation, accessed April 1, 2012 . 
6. ^ Bavarian Maximilian Order for Prof. Dieter Seitzer. (No longer available online.) In: Press release. Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits (IIS), formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
7. ↑ ^{a b} Speech by the head of the Bavarian State Chancellery, Minister of State Eberhard Sinner, on the occasion of the birthday reception in honor of Professor em. Dr.-Ing. Dieter Seitzer on April 18, 2008 in Erlangen. (No longer available online.) Bavarian State Government, April 18, 2008, formerly in the original ; Retrieved April 1, 2012 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.    
8. ↑ Prize winners. Karl Heinz Beckurts Foundation, accessed April 1, 2012 . 
9. ↑ Awards according to the statutes of the city of Erlangen. (PDF; 47 kB) (No longer available online.) City of Erlangen, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 1, 2012 . 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.  
10. ↑ ^{a b} High awards for scientists from Erlangen. In: Media Service FAU-Aktuell No. 4030. Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, February 16, 2005, accessed on April 1, 2012 . 
11. ↑ MP3 inventor inducted into the Consumer Electronics Hall of Fame. In: TecChannel. IDG Business Media, October 25, 2007, accessed April 1, 2012 .