Günter Müller (business IT specialist)

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Günter Müller (2011)

Günter Müller (born November 25, 1948 in Sindelfingen ) is a German business computer scientist and has been a professor for telematics at the University of Freiburg since 1990 with a focus on security and privacy. He is the founding director of the Institute for Computer Science and Society (IIG).

Life

Günter Müller grew up in Schafhausen , graduated from the Albert-Schweitzer-Gymnasium Leonberg in 1967 and then studied at the Universities of Stuttgart and Mannheim. His dissertation on data modeling in 1976 with Hans Robert Hansen at the University of Duisburg was one of the first publications on relational databases in German-speaking countries. In 1977 he accepted an offer from the world's leading database group to work at the IBM Almaden Research Center . It was there that he began working with Jim Gray , Ted Codd , Eric Carlson, Bruce Lindsay and Don Chamberlain, among others . Two years later he moved to the IBM scientific center in Heidelberg, where he dealt with end-user systems and user-friendly graphic interfaces, which became the core of his habilitation at the Vienna University of Economics and Business. With his appointment as head of department, his professional orientation changed from 1981. He worked on the digitization of telecommunications, which was "picking up speed" at the time, on the assumption that open heterogeneous systems were the way to the technical future, whereby he favored the OSI model because of its central architecture. The establishment of the European Center for Network Research (ENC) and his appointment as Director of IBM in 1987 made the ENC one of the focal points of innovative technical competence. 1987 the first heterogeneous OSI-based computer network with multi-media applications could be shown in Geneva at the 1987 Telekom.

The experience that it is not technology alone that determines the future of “technology” motivated Müller to move to the University of Freiburg. This gave him the opportunity with the Institute for Computer Science and Society (IIG) to institutionalize and globalize the principles of technology design for digital infrastructures. In 1992/93 he was visiting professor at the NTT Research Laboratory in Japan, in 1995 visiting professor at Harvard, 1997 in Berkeley and since 2008 he has been visiting professor at the NII (National Institute of Informatics) in Tokyo. This was expanded by an appointment as a foreign member to the "Science and Technology Board" of the Japanese Ministry of Research ( Monbusho ) and in 1995 by membership in the Enquête Commission "Development, Opportunities and Effects of New Information and Communication Technologies" of the State Parliament of Baden- Württemberg at the suggestion of Dieter Salomon ( The Greens ). He was then a member of the scientific advisory board of the Daimler-Benz Foundation, Ladenburg and Berlin, and also of the advisory board of the Enquête Commission on New Media of the Bundestag, appointed by the Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung . Guest stays at NTT, Hitachi, SAP and IBM formed the industrial side of the endeavor for international cooperation.

With the multi-sided security, a new model of “security” and “privacy” was defined from 1994 to 1999 in the college “Security in Communication Technology” at the Gottlieb Daimler and Carl Benz Foundation . Despite technical progress, its basic principles are still valid today.

From 1999 to 2006 he was the speaker of the priority program (SPP) of the DFG "Security in Information Technology". In 1999, Müller received a one-year Alcatel visiting professorship on this subject at the TU Darmstadt . In 2011 he contributed to the definition of privacy on the internet of acatech (German Academy of Science and Engineering), whose "task force" at the BDI he headed in 2013 on the consequences of the wiretapping affair on the scientific side. For 20 years he has been a reviewer for the EU, the BMBF and the DFG, as well as the National Foundation of Switzerland and Austria and the National Science Foundation and co-editor of the journals BISE, Information Security, Information Systems and J.UCS (Journal of Universal Computer Science) . He is a founding member of the Feldafinger Kreis, to which he belonged until 2013.

In 2006, Müller was chairman of the international conference Emerging Trends in Information and Communication Security, ETRICS 2006 in Freiburg, as well as guest editor of the CACM on Highly Dynamic Systems. In the following year he was General Chair of the IEEE-CEC on E-Commerce Techniques in Washington DC. Since 1997 he has been connected to the Croatian universities in Zagreb and Varazdin for the computer science curriculum. 58 doctoral students successfully completed their doctorate in Freiburg, 7 of which are now professors at German universities themselves.

Müller was a member of the management group of the GI (Society for Computer Science) for computer networks, as well as a board member of the German Society for Law and Computer Science eV (DGRI) for two years and was spokesman for the Scientific Commission for Business Information Systems (WKWI) in the Association of University Teachers for Business Administration (VHB ) until 2011 ). In 2009 he was named a Senior ACM Fellow.

Scientific work

Günter Müller's scientific topics are characterized by four areas. Starting with database systems , he has been able to contribute to data protection (privacy), security and compliance (rule conformity) in distributed systems for almost 20 years with his work on end user systems as well as computer networks .

Databases

The storage and retrieval of structured data were solved in the 1970s by SQL and the Coddian Relation Model, insofar as the majority of database systems in practice still follow this technique today. In "Information Structuring in Database Systems" from 1976, Müller deals with data modeling for companies, working on their core technology through the research prototype System R in the IBM laboratories in Almaden (USA) and Heidelberg from 1977 to 1981, especially with the human-system interfaces could contribute.

End user systems

User-friendly interfaces and intuitive human-computer interaction of today's systems have a long, if unending, history. In "Decision Support End User Systems" and based on " Query by Example ", the IBM scientific center in Heidelberg has developed a form of interaction based on graphic elements. A uniform concept visualized the access to data and functions with simple geometric elements. The expansion to an integrated method and data access in 1980 was an advanced form of today's app techniques.

Heterogeneous computer networks

Telecommunication and computer communication in the 1980s were two separate worlds, characterized on the one hand by analog dominance and on the other by anachronistic regulation. In “Was the Internet the only option?”, Müller discusses the decisive years that led to today's status and extent of Internet dominance. At a conference in Oberlech with the National Bureau of Standards of the USA (today's NIST ), the guidelines for “Networking in Open Systems” were discussed and described, which were only replaced by the World Wide Web (WWW) in the mid-1990s . Only at the conference in Kobe in 1992 did the Internet completely break away from OSI.

Security, privacy and compliance

With the demand for data economy, security and privacy seem to be "irreconcilably" opposed to the desire for new connections in the digital world. Big data and machine learning in autonomous systems are changing the understanding of the role of humans in the infrastructures overlying the Internet. The possibilities and limits of technical security mechanisms and the requirements of data protection are a focus of his work that is still pursued today. With the multi-sided security that he helped to develop , he has shown that data protection is not just a question of legal norms, but also becomes an object of economic activity and requires more powerful security mechanisms than firewalls can be. In "Multilateral Security in Communications - Technology, Infrastructure, Economy", Müller and Rannenberg described the results of the Daimler-Benz Foundation's multi-year college on the further development of "privacy". The protection goals set at the time have become part of the international standardization of the ISO (International Organization for Standardization) and have contributed to the legitimation of the DFG's priority program. In "Secure usage control for more transparency in financial markets", Müller shows that these protection goals are also important for the economy itself. With alternative concepts for identity management, computer crime, renewable energy management and ERP systems, he has expanded the deficits of the well-known PET mechanisms (Privacy Enhancing Technologies) to include work on transparency, since it is less about data collection than data use.

Awards

Fonts

  • with Hans Robert Hansen , Hermann J. Weihe: Textbook Wirtschaftsinformatik , Duisburg 1976, ISBN 3-921473-11-X .
  • with Detlef Schoder: Electronic Commerce. Obstacles, development potential, consequences. Academy for Technology Assessment in Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart 1999, ISBN 3-932013-68-9 .
  • with Torsten Eymann, Michael Kreutzer: Telematics and communication systems in the networked economy. Oldenbourg, Munich / Vienna 2003, ISBN 3-486-25888-5 .
  • with Alexander Roßnagel, Herbert Reichl: Digital ID Card - A Feasibility Study . Data protection and data security, Wiesbaden 2005, ISBN 3-8350-0054-3 .
  • Günter Müller: Privacy and Security in Highly Dynamic Systems . Comm. ACM 49 (9), pp. 28-31 (2006)
  • with Sven Wohlgemuth, Isao Echizen, Noboru Sonehara: On Privacy in Medical Services with Electronic Health Records . Trustworthiness of Health Information, (2009)
  • G. Müller, K. Rannenberg: Multilateral Security in Communications - Technology, Infrastructure, Economy . Addison-Wesley-Longman, Munich (1999).
  • G. Müller: Protection 4.0: The digitization dilemma. The blue hour of computer science. Springer (2020)

As editor

  • Networking in Open Systems. Springer, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-540-17707-8 .
  • Future prospects of digital networking. dpunkt, Heidelberg 1996, ISBN 3-920993-46-2 .
  • Reliable IT systems. Between key escrow and electronic money. Vieweg, Braunschweig 1997, ISBN 3-528-05594-4 .
  • Security concepts for the internet. Springer, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-540-41703-6 .
  • Emerging trends in information and communication security. Springer, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-540-34640-6 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ G. Müller : Information structuring in database systems. Oldenbourg, Munich, Vienna 1978.
  2. ↑ G. Müller: Decision support end user systems . Teubner, Stuttgart 1983.
  3. ↑ G. Müller: Was Internet the only option? In: Business Informatics. Vol. 51, Number 1. (2009).
  4. ^ A b G. Müller, RP Blanc: Networking in Open Systems . In: Proceedings International Seminar, Oberlech, Austria. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (1987).
  5. ↑ G. Müller, W. Wahlster: Placing Humans in the Feedback Loop of Social Infrastructures , In: Informatik Spektrum 36 (6) : 520-529 (2013)
  6. ↑ G. Müller, K. Rannenberg : Security in Information and Communication Technology - A New DFG Priority Program . In: Computer science research and development. 14 (1) : 46-48 (1999).
  7. ↑ G. Müller, K. Rannenberg: Multilateral Security in Communications - Technology, Infrastructure, Economy . Addison-Wesley-Longman, Munich (1999).
  8. ↑ G. Müller, R. Accorsi, S. Höhn, S. Sackmann: Secure usage control for more transparency in financial markets . In: Computer Science Spectrum. Volume 33, Issue 1/2010, pp. 3-14.
  9. ^ S. Wohlgemuth , G. Müller: Privacy with Delegation of Rights by Identity Management. ETRICS : 175-190, (2006).
  10. ^ C. Brenig , R. Accorsi , G. Müller: Economic Analysis of Cryptocurrency Backed Money Laundering . ECIS, (2015) .
  11. ↑ J. Holderer , J. Carmona , G. Müller: Security-Sensitive Tackling of Obstructed Workflow Executions. ATAED @ Petri Nets / ACSD 2016 , pp. 126-137, (2016).
  12. ↑ G. Müller: Data protection: A discontinued model? STeP (2014) .
  13. ^ Müller G, Rannenberg K: Multilateral security. In: Müller G, Rannenberg K (Ed.): Multilateral security in communications technology, empowering users, enabling applications. Addison-Wesley, Boston, S. 562-570 .
  14. ^ Society for Computer Science (GI): Oliver Günther, Guido Herrtwich, Katharina Morik and Günter Müller appointed GI fellows. September 23, 2019, accessed October 4, 2019 (German).
personal data
SURNAME Müller, Günter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German business IT specialist
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1948
PLACE OF BIRTH Sindelfingen