Gregor von Bochmann (computer scientist)
Gregor von Bochmann (born July 20, 1941 in Niebüll ) is a German-Canadian computer scientist and professor emeritus at the University of Montreal and the University of Ottawa . He is known for his work in the field of software engineering for distributed systems .
biography
Gregor von Bochmann attended the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Gymnasium in Eutin from 1952 to 1961 . He then studied physics at the universities in Kiel, Tübingen, Grenoble (France) and Munich. After completing his intermediate diploma, he studied cello and piano for one year at the Lübeck University of Music . He finished his studies in physics in 1968 with a diploma thesis on problems in the second Muon g-2 experiment at CERN . Then he emigrated to Canada. He received his PhD in high-energy theoretical physics from McGill University in 1971 . After programming experience in machine, assembly and higher languages , which he had acquired while working on his diploma and doctoral thesis, he was able to familiarize himself with computer science with a scholarship from the National Research Council of Canada . In 1972 he became an Assistant Professor in the Computer Science Department at the University of Montreal .
His first computer science work was in the area of neural networks . In 1976 a well-received article was published on the description of the semantics of programming languages. Since 1975, von Bochmann's work has focused on the description, verification and implementation of communication protocols. On behalf of the Canadian government, he also took part in the international standardization of the formal description languages for communication protocols, which was carried out within the framework of ISO and ITU in the 1980s. He spent a research year 1979/1980 at Stanford University and 1986/1987 at Siemens in Munich . From 1989 to 1997 he headed the “Industrial Research Chair” on test methods for communication protocols at the University of Montreal , and from 1990 to 1997 he was also a scientific director of the “Center de recherche en informatique de Montréal”.
From 1998 to 2016 Gregor von Bochmann worked as a professor at the University of Ottawa. During this time he worked in various areas such as software technology for distributed systems, distributed multimedia systems, peer-to-peer systems, control of optical networks, and "Internet security".
Von Bochmann lives in Montréal , he is married and the father of two children.
Honors and awards (selection)
- 1995: Fellow of the IEEE with the quote "For contributions to the formal specification of protocols for data communications"
- 1995: Honorary doctorate from the University of Grenoble (France)
- 1996: Fellow of the ACM
- 1997: Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada
- 2001: Thomas W. Eadie Medal, awarded by the Royal Society of Canada
- 2002: Prize for Excellence in Research, awarded by the University of Ottawa
- 2008: McNaughton Gold Medal awarded by IEEE Canada
- 2008: Fellow of the Engineering Institute of Canada EIC
- 2012: Honorary doctorate from the University of Rennes (France)
Web links
- Page from Gregor v. Bochmann at the University of Ottawa
- Personal page of Gregor v. Bochmann
Individual evidence
- ↑ Precise measurement of the abnormal magnetic moment of the muon
- ^ Properties of boolean functions with a tree decomposition, with preview
- ^ Semantic evaluation from left to right
- ↑ Some notes on the history of protocol engineering
- ^ IEEE Fellows Directory
- ^ List of Fellows of the Association for Computing Machinery
- ^ List of RSC Fellows
- ^ Recipients of AGL McNaughton Award
- ↑ EIC HAFCitations- New FELLOWS - AwardsGala March 1, 2008
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bochmann, Gregor von |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German-Canadian computer scientist and professor emeritus |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 20, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Niebüll |