Hartmut Wedekind (computer scientist)

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Hartmut Wedekind (born May 13, 1935 in Bochum ) is a German computer scientist who specializes in databases and business informatics .

biography

Wedekind comes from a miner's family and, after graduating from high school in Düsseldorf, studied industrial engineering at the TH Darmstadt from 1955 with a diploma in 1960. In Darmstadt he also heard Alwin Walther , a pioneer of computer science in Germany, and with his support received a NATO scholarship he studied applied mathematics, computer science and operations research at the University of California, Berkeley from 1960 to 1962 , with a master's degree from George B. Dantzig . In 1963 he received his doctorate at the TH Darmstadt with a dissertation, which was mainly prepared in Berkeley ( the determination of optimal production conditions for multi-machine operation ). From 1963 to 1970 he was a senior system consultant at IBM Germany and also a lecturer at the Technical University of Munich , where he completed his habilitation in 1967 . From 1970 he was a professor of business administration and data processing at the TH Darmstadt (he turned down calls to the TH Berlin and the University of Bochum ). There he founded the computer science department with Robert Piloty and was its first dean in 1972. In 1979 he became a professor for computer science at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg .

In 1988 Wedekind co-founded the Bavarian Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (FORWISS) in Erlangen - Tennenlohe . From 1987 to 1999 he was the spokesman for the Collaborative Research Center for Multiprocessor and Network Configurations . In the 1990s he dealt with the theoretical foundations for workflow management , eBusiness and data warehousing .

Fonts

  • Data organization, De Gruyter, 1970, 3rd edition 1975
  • Structured Database Programming, Hanser 1975
  • System analysis: the development of application systems for data processing systems, Hanser, 1973, 2nd edition 1976
  • Editor with Herbert Stoyan : Object-oriented software and hardware architectures, Teubner 1983
  • Editor with others: Lexikon der Wirtschaftsinformatik, Springer 1987
  • with Theo Härder : database systems, 2 volumes, BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1974, 1976 (second volume with Theo Härder), new edition 1989, 1991
  • Object-Oriented Schema Development: A Categorical Approach to Databases and Programming, BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1992
  • Commercial databases, BI Wissenschaftsverlag 1993

literature

  • Theo Härder (Ed.): Data management in a connected world: essays dedicated to Hartmut Wedekind on the occasion of his 70th birthday, Springer 2005

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