Helmut Balzert

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Helmut Balzert (2013)

Helmut Balzert (born February 4, 1950 in Bad Hersfeld ) held the chair for software technology at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum .

Life

From 1968 to 1972 Balzert studied electrical engineering at the TH Darmstadt , where he obtained his diploma in 1973 . This was followed by almost a year of industrial activity in computer-aided development and construction at Telefunken Computer (now: Computer Gesellschaft Konstanz ) before he returned to the university.

At the University of Kaiserslautern , Balzert worked from 1974 to 1979 as a research assistant in the research group “Programming Languages ​​and Compiler Construction” before he received his doctorate in 1979 in the field of “Design Languages” . After that he was head of the "Software Engineering" department at Triumph-Adler AG in Nuremberg until 1983 , where he rose to become head of the "New Technologies / Basic Development" department and held this position until 1988.

In 1987 he completed his habilitation at the University of Stuttgart on the subject of software ergonomics and software engineering . Soon afterwards, Helmut Balzert received the chair for software technology at the Ruhr University in Bochum, where he and others set up the cross-faculty course in Applied Computer Science .

In 1998 the start-up "o3s Objectoriented Software Solutions & Services GmbH & Co. KG" (renamed in 2000 to otris software AG) and in 2002 the start-up W3L GmbH (Web Life Long Learning), in 2012, became an AG.

Balzert has authored or co-authored over 40 books, published over 150 articles and created 5 online courses.

At the end of the 2015 summer semester, Balzert retired.

Helmut Balzert was a member of the Presidium of the Society for Computer Science for three years from 1985 , where he founded the GI regional groups. He was also a member of the “Ergonomics in Computer Science” technical committee, to which he was a spokesperson until 1988, and an expert in the “Software Technology and Information Systems” technical committee.

From 1996 to 2004, Balzert was chairman and until 2013 member of the supervisory board of Schleupen AG in Moers , from 2000 to 2010 chairman of the supervisory board of otris software AG in Dortmund, from December 2008 to July 2015 supervisory board of Easy Software AG in Mülheim an der Ruhr, from 2012 Until 2019 Chairman of the Supervisory Board of W3L AG in Dortmund and from June 2013 to July 2015 on the Supervisory Board of the IHK-GfI in Dortmund. After an examination at Deutsche Börse AG, he has been a certified supervisory board member since 2013.

Balzert is married to the computer science professor Heide Balzert .

Research areas

Balzert already dealt with the automation of software development activities during his industrial activity. In his habilitation, he designed a concept for the automatic generation of user interfaces. The JANUS system arose from this at his chair, which makes it possible to generate executable standard systems for the commercial-administrative area from UML models. It represents a forerunner of the MDA concept of the OMG . From this research work, the company otris software AG in Dortmund emerged as a spin-off from the chair . Further research work dealt with the classification and structuring of the field of software engineering. This resulted in the widespread three-volume textbook on software technology.

Work on the didactics of computer science led to the development of the e-learning platform W3L using the "JANUS system" , which is characterized by a single source publishing approach. Books can be generated fully automatically from online courses.

For the e-learning platform W3L, Balzert designed and implemented two online bachelor's degree programs, “Web and Media Informatics” and “Business Informatics”.

Balzert gained his didactic experience in the book How to write… successful textbooks and e-learning courses? summarized.

Publications (selection)

Books

  • Software engineering textbook. Basic concepts and requirements engineering 3rd edition. Springer-Verlag, 2009
  • Software engineering textbook. Design, implementation, installation and operation 3rd edition, Springer-Verlag, 2011
  • Software engineering textbook. Software management 2nd edition, Springer-Verlag, 2008
  • Textbook basics of computer science. 2nd Edition. Elsevier Publishing House, 2005
  • HTML5, XHTML & CSS - develop websites systematically and without barriers. 2nd edition, W3L-Verlag, 2011 (plus online course) (together with Sandra Krüger)
  • Java: Getting started with programming - structured and procedural programming. 4th edition, W3L-Verlag, 2013 (plus online course)
  • Java: Object-oriented programming - from the object-oriented analysis model to the object-oriented program 3rd edition, W3L-Verlag, 2014 (plus online course)
  • Java: Programming applications - from GUI programming to database connections. 3rd edition, W3L-Verlag, 2014 (plus online course) (together with Jürgen Priemer)
  • Scientific work - ethics, content & form of scientific work, tools, sources, project management, presentation. 2nd edition, W3L-Verlag, 2011 (plus online course) (together with Marion Schröder and Christian Schäfer)
  • How do you write ... successful textbooks and e-learning courses? A pragmatic, empirically supported didactic , 1st edition, W3L-Verlag, 2016 (plus online course)

items

  • General principles of software engineering. In: Applied Computer Science. 1/85, pp. 1-8
  • Phase-specific principles of software engineering. In: Applied Computer Science. 3/85, pp. 101-110
  • A blackboard architecture to realize adaptive human-computer interfaces and application systems. In: Proceedings Second International Conference on Human-Computer-Interaction. Honolulu, August 1987
  • The JANUS dialogue expert: From the technical concept to the dialogue structure. In: Software technology trends. August 1993, pp. 62–72 (Proceedings of the GI symposium software technology 93 in Dortmund)
  • The JANUS system: automated, knowledge-based generation of human-computer interfaces. In: Computer Science Research and Development. Springer-Verlag, Heidelberg 9/1994, pp. 22-35
  • From programming to generating - on the way to automated application development. In: Proceedings GI symposium software technology 95th Braunschweig, pp. 126–135 (together with F. Hofmann and C. Niemann)
  • The e-learning platform W3L - requirements, didactics, ergonomics, architecture, development, use. In: Business Informatics. 2/46/2004, pp. 129–138 (together with Heide Balzert and Olaf Zwintzscher)
  • Learning in a media network - the W3L learning platform. In: LOG IN. 127/2004 (together with Heide Balzert and Olaf Zwintzscher)
  • Evaluation of e-learning courses from the user's point of view - frame of reference and exemplary application. In: Business Informatics. 1/47/2005, pp. 69-80

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.otris.de/unternehmen/
  2. ↑ https://www.w3l.de/de/ueber-w3l/
  3. ↑ according to Microsoft Academic Search ( memento of the original dated February 22, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / academic.research.microsoft.com
  4. ↑ on www.schleupen.de ( Memento from March 12, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  5. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.otris.de
  6. ↑ http://partnernet.easy.de/dyn/epctrl/mod/easy000696/cat/easy002636/pri/easy/lng/0  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / partnernet.easy.de  
  7. ↑ http://www.w3l.de/
  8. ↑ http://www.ihk-gfi.de/
  9. ↑ https://deutsche-boerse.com/cma/dispatch/de/listcontent/gdb_navigation/cma/15_Academic_Training/05_Academic_Training/Content_Files/QA_Pruefung.htm
  10. ↑ https://www.springer.com/de/springer-campus/studiengaenge/web-und-medieninformatik
personal data
SURNAME Balzert, Helmut
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist, professor of software technology
DATE OF BIRTH 4th February 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Hersfeld