Gerhard Goos

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Gerhard Goos (born August 6, 1937 in Nuremberg ; † April 20, 2020 in Karlsruhe ) was Professor of Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and helped set up computer science teaching in Germany. He was retired on April 1, 2005 .

Life

Gerhard Goos received his doctorate in 1965 at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg under Georg Nöbeling with the thesis Künneth formulas of Cech's cohomology theory on compact spaces .

In 1970 he received the first chair for computer science at the University of Karlsruhe, at that time still at the Faculty of Mathematics. Until recently he was a member of the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization at the Faculty of Computer Science.

He was the author of several textbooks, two of the first of their kind in 1971 together with his mentor Friedrich L. Bauer .

Since 1973 he has been the main editor of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science and co-editor of several scientific journals: Informatik Spektrum , Informatik - Research and Development , Software Concepts and Tools and Formal Aspects of Computing .

His main research interests were translators , so he designed attributed grammars , the first European Ada-83 compiler and the language Sather -K.

From 1971 to 1979, and again from 1992, he was an elected reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG).

In 1985 he was one of the initiators of the Research Center for Information Technology (FZI), Karlsruhe , and there director of the software engineering research area . Since 2011 he has been director emeritus.

From 1986 to 1991 Goos was a technical and scientific board member at the Society for Mathematics and Data Processing (GMD) , where he had previously been head of the Institute for Systems Engineering and the Karlsruhe Research Center for Program Structures.

In 1987/88, together with the GMD and the University of California, Berkeley, he was involved in founding the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley , an independent laboratory that conducts basic research in the field of computer science and has set itself the goal of To promote technology transfer and the exchange of scientists between Germany and the USA. Until 2004, Goos headed the selection committee for scientifically excellently qualified German postdocs and achieved an ICSI postdoctoral “return rate” of almost 90%, which enabled numerous new computer science professorships in Germany to be filled with US-experienced scientists.

In 1988 (until 1991) he became a member of the founding supervisory board of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence .

He was the father of three children.

Quotes

A computer is a complete idiot with a special talent:
it has a large, precise memory and can calculate
faster than a human.
(Gerhard Goss on computers in his first
computer science lecture in 1962)

Honors (excerpt)

  • 1986: Board of Trustees of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley (now Emeritus Trustee)
  • 2005: Fellow of the Society for Computer Science
  • 2005: Distinguished Service Award from the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI) in Berkeley (for special services in setting up the transatlantic research exchange for young IT scientists)
  • 2018: On the occasion of his eightieth birthday, the largest lecture hall in the faculty building, room -101, was renamed "Gerhard Goos lecture hall" during the semester colloquium WS 2017/2018.

Fonts (excerpt)

  • Künneth formulas of Cech's cohomology theory over compact spaces. Dissertation. Erlangen-Nuremberg 1965
  • with Friedrich L. Bauer : Informatik 1. An introductory overview . 4th edition. Springer textbook, 1992, ISBN 3-540-52790-7 .
  • with Friedrich L. Bauer : Informatik 2. An introductory overview . 4th edition. Springer textbook, 1992, ISBN 3-540-55567-6 .
  • (Ed.): Tools of programming technology. GI workshop, Karlsruhe, 16. – 17. March 1981. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York 1981, ISBN 3-540-10725-8
  • with William A. Wulf, Arthur Evans & Kenneth J. Butler (Eds.): DIANA, an Intermediate Language for Ada. Revised version. Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 1983, ISBN 3-540-12695-3
  • with William Waite: Compiler Construction . 1st edition. Springer, 1984, ISBN 3-540-90821-8 .
  • with Guido Persch & Jürgen Uhl: Programming methodology with Ada. Springer, Berlin [a. a.] 1987, ISBN 3-540-17536-9
  • Lectures on computer science 1. Basics and functional programming . 4th edition. Springer, 2005, ISBN 3-540-24405-0 .
  • Lectures on computer science 2. Object-oriented programming and algorithms . 4th edition. Springer, 2006, ISBN 3-540-24403-4 .
  • Lectures on computer science 3. Computability, formal languages, specifications . 1st edition. Springer, 1997, ISBN 3-540-60655-6 .
  • Lectures on computer science 4. Parallel computing and non-analytical solution methods . 1st edition. Springer, 1998, ISBN 3-540-60650-5 .

Web links

Footnotes

  1. ↑ GI mourns Gerhard Goos. Retrieved April 24, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Annual report of the Faculty of Computer Science and its affiliated and computer science institutions 2005. University of Karlsruhe, 2005, p. 13 ( PDF; 11.705 MB )
  3. ↑ FZI Research Center for Computer Science: Prof. Dr. Dr. hc Gerhard Goos (staff member at FZI)
  4. ↑ Sunday, August 4, 2019, p. 3.
  5. ↑ Quotation from the obituary notice of the FZI Research Center for Computer Science and the KIT Faculty for Computer Science in: DIE ZEIT, No. 20, May 7, 2020, p. 29
personal data
SURNAME Goos, Gerhard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH August 6, 1937
PLACE OF BIRTH Nuremberg
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 2020
Place of death Karlsruhe