Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich

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Faculty of Computer Science, Technical University of Munich
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founding 1967 ("Collaborative Research Center for Computer Science" of the DFG )
1975 (Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science)
1992 (Independent Faculty)
2002 (Garching Campus)
place Garching near Munich
state Bavaria
country Germany
dean Hans-Joachim Bungartz
Students 5,986 (WS 2018/19; ♀: 19.6%)
Employee 42 professors, 12  private lecturers (May 2019) a . 408  academic staff (WS 2018/19; ♀: 15%) ,
Website www.in.tum.de
Exterior view of the Faculty Building for Mathematics and Computer Science in Garching
Interior view of the Faculty Building for Mathematics and Computer Science in Garching

The Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) is one of the leading computer science faculties in Germany. It currently consists of 26  chairs at which around 42 professors (including junior , honorary and honorary professors ) teach and research. In 2018 the faculty had 2,208 new students (20.0% women). A total of 5986 students were enrolled here in the 2018/2019 winter semester (19.5% women). Over 36% of the students come from abroad. In the 2017/2018 winter semester, the faculty was for the first time the one with the largest number of students at the TU Munich. The building, which is shared with the Faculty of Mathematics , houses three lecture halls , several seminar and exercise rooms and the computer hall as well as a branch library and a cafeteria . Two more rooms are available for the presentation of special attractions.

History of the faculty

As early as 1967 at the Technical University of Munich, a branch of information processing within the mathematics course was brought into being by Friedrich L. Bauer . It was thus one of the first universities in Germany to offer computer science as a subject. In November 1967 the German Research Foundation set up the “Collaborative Research Center for Computer Science” within the Faculty of Mathematics. In 1974 this became the Institute for Computer Science. In 1975 the Faculty of Mathematics was renamed "Faculty of Mathematics and Computer Science". It was not until 1992, a few years later than at other universities, that the courses in computer science were separated from the Faculty of Mathematics and combined into an independent faculty. Due to this fact, the name of the mathematics faculty is still the first mentioned on the new building at the Garching location. Until 2002, the faculty was located in Munich in the south building of the main campus near Königsplatz ( ⊙ ), which was demolished due to building materials containing asbestos . Today it is located on the new TUM campus in Garching near Munich . The Munich University of Television and Film is now located at the previous location .

Garching campus

The Leibniz computer center with the SuperMUC is located in the immediate vicinity of the faculty . The nuclear research facilities of the TUM in Garching include the research reactor in Munich (the “Atomei”) and the Siemens Argonaut reactor (both of which are now out of operation) as well as the new research neutron source Heinz Maier-Leibnitz . The four Max Planck Institutes for Astrophysics , Extraterrestrial Physics , Plasma Physics and Quantum Optics , the Walther Meißner Institute for Low Temperature Research , the Walter Schottky Institute and the headquarters of the European Southern Observatory ( ESO ) are located in the immediate vicinity of the Garching research campus.

Evaluation in university rankings

According to the QS World University Rankings by Subject , THE World University Rankings 2018 by subject , the US News & World Report 2018 and the individual subject ranking Computer Science of the Shanghai Ranking, the faculty is the leading computer science faculty in Germany.

In the ranking of the magazine Wirtschaftswoche based on a survey of 540 HR managers , the faculty came third behind the computer science faculties of RWTH Aachen and the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology . In the ranking of the Center for University Development, universities were divided into three groups in individual categories (top, middle, bottom group). The faculty was in the top group in terms of the international orientation of the Masters, support for studying abroad, the range of courses and professional relevance, the evaluation of research funding per scientist, the infrastructure, the IT infrastructure and the library equipment.

research

With Thomas Neumann (2020), Daniel Cremers (2016), Susanne Albers (2008), Ernst W. Mayr (1997), Gerhard Hirzinger (1995), Manfred Broy (1994) and Karl-Heinz Hoffmann (1991) seven faculty members became with awarded the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize of the DFG , endowed with up to 2.5 million euros . Friedrich L. Bauer was honored with the Computer Pioneer Award of the IEEE Computer Society in 1988, Gerhard Hirzinger with the IEEE Robotics and Automation Society Pioneer Award in 2005 . Hans-Arno Jacobsen (2011) and Burkhard Rost (2008) were awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Professorship by the BMBF .

Members of the faculty have been instrumental in numerous inventions. For example, Professors Friedrich L. Bauer and Klaus Samelson received the patent for the stack memory in 1957 .

courses

In the course of the Bologna process , the previous diploma courses are expiring and can no longer be started. There are 4 bachelor 's degree programs with 6 semesters each and 12 master’s programs with 4 semesters each to choose from.

Bachelor's degree (6 semesters):

  1. Computer science
  2. Computer science: games engineering
  3. Bioinformatics
  4. business Informatics

Master’s course (4 semesters):

  1. Computer science
  2. Computer science: games engineering
  3. Bioinformatics
  4. Automotive software engineering
  5. Biomedical Computing *
  6. Robotics , cognition, intelligence
  7. business Informatics
  8. Computational Science and Engineering *

Elite master’s course (4 semesters):

  1. Software engineering *
  2. Technology Management *
  3. Computational Science and Engineering *
  4. Finance and information management
*courses taught in English only . For all other master’s courses, the language of instruction is German and English; the master’s course in computer science can be studied entirely in English

Teaching and research units (chairs)

As of October 2017, there are 26 chairs in the faculty:

Chairs Ordinaries Extraordinaries Assistant professors Honorary professors
I. Applied software technology Bernd Bruges
II Languages and description structures in computer science Helmut Seidl
III Database systems Alfons Kemper Stephan Günnemann
IV Software and systems engineering Karl-Rudolf Moll, Ernst Denert , Heinz Schwärtzel
V Scientific computing Hans-Joachim Bungartz Thomas Huckle, Michael Bader
VI Real-time systems and robotics Alois Knoll Darius Burschka Matthias Althoff Gerd Hirzinger
VII Basics of software reliability and theoretical computer science Javier Esparza Jan Křetínský Thomas A. Runkler
VIII Network architectures and network services Georg Carle
IX Image processing and pattern recognition Daniel Cremers Carsten Steger
X Computer technology and computer organization Arndt Bode , Martin Schulz Michael Gerndt
XI Connected mobility Jörg Ott Anne Brüggemann-Klein
XII Bioinformatics b Burkhard Rost Julien Gagneur
XIII Application and middleware systems b Hans-Arno Jacobsen
FXIII Operating systems Uwe Baumgarten
XIV Theoretical computer science Susanne Albers Harald Räcke
XV Graphics and visualization Rudiger Westermann Nils Thürey Matthias Niessner
XVI Computer science applications in medicine Nassir Navab Gudrun Klinker Bjorn Menze
XVII business Informatics Helmut Krcmar August-Wilhelm Scheer a
XVIII Business informatics and decision theory Martin Bichler Felix Brandt
XIX Software engineering of business information systems Florian Matthes
XX Security in IT Claudia Eckert
XXI Logic and verification Tobias Nipkow Lawrence C. Paulson a
XXII Software engineering Alexander Pretschner
XXIII Sensor-based robot systems and intelligent assistance systems Alin Albu-Schäffer
XXIV Cyber ​​Trust c Jens Großklags
XXV Data science and engineering Thomas Neumann
Professorship for Computer Science Didactics Peter Hubwieser

MINGA mentoring program

The MINGA (mentors for INcomings & guest students from abroad) is a mentoring program of the faculty that aims to help foreign students to gain a foothold at TUM and in Germany more quickly. The participating visiting students are assigned TU students as mentors who are supposed to assist them in organizational and practical matters. The TU mentors support the foreign students in choosing their courses, registering for exams and other organizational matters. Working as a MINGA mentor prepares the TU students for their own stay abroad and is particularly welcome when applying for TUM mobility programs (e.g. TUMexchange).

Personalities and alumni

well-known professors of the faculty
well-known alumni of the faculty

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ a b c The Faculty of Computer Science in Facts and Figures 2018 In: in.tum.de , accessed on May 27, 2019.
  2. ↑ a b Professors at the Faculty of Computer Science. In: in.tum.de , accessed on May 27, 2019.
  3. ↑ a b Chairs at the Faculty of Computer Science. In: in.tum.de , accessed on October 30, 2017.
  4. ↑ Jakob Wetzel: New record for student numbers . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . 15th October 2017
  5. ^ Faculty of Computer Science: History. Retrieved September 15, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Birth of Computer Science In in.tum.de (PDF), last accessed : March 18, 2018
  7. ↑ Bernd Graff: The arithmetic artists . In: Süddeutsche Zeitung . May 11, 2017
  8. ↑ Ranking Computer Science & Information Systems of the QS World University Rankings 2017
  9. ↑ World University Rankings 2018 computer science . by Times Higher Education
  10. ↑ Best Global Universities for Computer Science in Germany . according to US News & World Report
  11. ↑ Academic Ranking of World Universities in Engineering, Technology and Computer Science of the Shanghai Ranking 2015
  12. ↑ These are Germany's best universities . In: Wirtschaftswoche . October 25, 2016
  13. ↑ University ranking of the Center for University Development
  14. ↑ Prof. Dr. Thomas Neumann - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winner 2020 . In: DFG . 2020
  15. ↑ Sabine Dobel: With him, computers learn to see and react . In: The world . February 29, 2016
  16. ↑ Prof. Dr. Susanne Albers - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize Winner 2008 . In: DFG . 2008
  17. ↑ Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize: A small Nobel Prize in Bavaria ( Memento of 7 November 2017 Internet Archive ) In: in.tum.de . January 1, 1995
  18. ↑ 50 years computer science Munich - About us ( Memento of 7 November 2017 Internet Archive ) In: in.tum.de . 2016
  19. ^ Friedrich L. Bauer & Gerhard Goos : Computer Science. An introductory overview. First part. 3. Edition. Springer, Berlin 1982, ISBN 3-540-11722-9 , p. 222. "The term 'Keller' for this was introduced by Bauer and Samelson in a German patent application dated March 30, 1957."
  20. ↑ Patent DE1094019 : Method for the automatic processing of coded data and calculating machine for carrying out the method. Registered on March 30, 1957 , published December 1, 1960 , inventors: Friedrich Ludwig Bauer, Klaus Samelson. ‌
  21. ↑ For prospective students . In in.tum.de , last accessed : December 10, 2014
  22. ↑ Dieter Kranzlmüller new head of the Leibniz computing center . In: LRZ . March 30, 2017
  23. ^ Bertram Somieski: New director at the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science . In: idw . 4th October 2017

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