Friedemann Mattern

Friedemann Mattern

Friedemann Mattern (born July 28, 1955 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German computer scientist .

Life

After studying computer science with a minor in communication science at the University of Bonn (1975–1982), Mattern became a research assistant in the special research area "VLSI design and parallelism" at the computer science department at the University of Kaiserslautern . In 1989 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on the subject of "Distributed Basic Algorithms". In 1991 he received a professorship at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken; In 1994 he moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt , where he founded the graduate college "Infrastructure for the Electronic Market".

In 1999 he followed the call to ETH Zurich and began to set up a research group for ubiquitous computing . Since autumn 2002 he has been the founding director of the Institute for Pervasive Computing . He is currently head of the " Distributed Systems " department at ETH Zurich. Since 2010 he has also been the head of the IT department at ETH. Mattern is also a co-founder of the joint M-Lab competence center of the ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen .

Memberships

• German Academy of Natural Scientists (Leopoldina)
• German Academies of Engineering Sciences (acatech)
• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences
• Academia Europaea

Publications

• "Algorithms for Distributed Termination Detection"
• "Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems"
• "Detecting Causal Relationships in Distributed Computations: In Search of the Holy Grail";
• "Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing"
• "The Disappearance of the Computer - The Vision of Ubiquitous Computing"
• as editor together with Elgar Fleisch : The Internet of Things. Ubiquitous computing and RFID in practice. Visions, technologies, applications, instructions for action . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 2005, 378 (VIII) S., ISBN 3-540-24003-9

Web links

• Literature by and about Friedemann Mattern in the catalog of the German National Library
• CV at ETH
• Friedemann Mattern in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
• M-Lab, The Mobile and Ubiquitous Computing Lab
• D-INFK: Department of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich
• List of publications

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Member entry by Friedemann Mattern (with picture and CV) at the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina , accessed on July 18, 2016.
2. ^ Membership directory: Friedemann Mattern. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 10, 2017 .