Hermann Maurer (computer scientist)
Hermann Maurer (born April 26, 1941 in Vienna ) is today Professor Emeritus at the Technical University of Graz , Institute for Information Systems and Computer Media. Work area: Multimedia, E-Learning, Citation Mining, Digital Libraries, Citation Index, Digital Libraries, Semantic Web, Digital Journals, Electronic Encyclopaedias, Digital Libraries, E-Book, Algorithms, MUPID , Hyperwave, Digital Libraries, Electronic Publishing, Data Structures, Telematics services, Internet, societal implications. Maurer also writes science fiction .
Maurer is mentioned in connection with the IBM Laboratorium Wien, founded and directed by computer pioneer Heinz Zemanek , because "the Vienna IBM Laboratorium not only developed computer science concepts, it also developed people." With this, Gerhard Chroust means "a climate in which parallel the scientific processing also found its place in addition to the technical work for IBM. This climate bore fruit: 17 university professors emerged from the relatively small team of around 40 people ”. One of them is bricklayer.
Technical and economic contributions
Hermann Maurer was at 1965 Edmund Hlawka on irrational numbers rational approximations doctorate . After five years as a professor in Calgary and six years in Karlsruhe (1971–1977), he has been a full professor at the Graz University of Technology since 1978, where he was the founding dean of the Faculty of Computer Science.
Maurer crucial as computer contributions to the development of the past eleven years of theoretical work screen text made and a general public (co-) inventor of the Austrian videotex terminals MUPID known. Numerous of Maurer's former students and followers in the Austrian video text movement held well-known positions in the Austrian IT and telecommunications industry as well as in public administration in later decades.
Maurer is a member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences , external member of the advisory committee of the University of Kuching in Malaysia , visiting professor at Danube University Krems and since 2000 a full member of Academia Europaea . In April 2009 he was appointed chairman of the IT section of the Academia Europaea, for which he has been developing an information system ever since. (www.ae-info.org).
Maurer's research in the field of knowledge management led , among other things, to the establishment of the company Hyperwave , with which he introduced the first web-based information system of the second generation. There he was chairman of the supervisory board for some time . In his honor, Anton Reiter, as a representative of the Ministry of Education at the time, commissioned the production of a telephone card under the motto "From MUPID to Hyperwave" and presented it to him at the 1999 Microelectronics Information Conference. From 2006 to 2009 he was deputy chairman of the supervisory board of NewHyperG AG . He also developed the eLearning Suite , a modern, network-based teaching platform .
A total of around 30 companies and organizations have been founded with his involvement, including the Austria Forum , a research project that is based on the Austria Lexicon AEIOU and was led by university professor Maurer as the managing editor together with the co-editors Trautl Brandstaller, Helga Maria Wolf and Peter Diem is looked after. Qualified users are also invited to make contributions and become members of the “editorial board”.
In 1999 Hermann Maurer founded the competence center for knowledge management in Graz. Together with the then appointed director Klaus Daughtermann , he also initiated the I-KNOW conference series in 2001.
Maurer has written around 750 publications and given over a thousand lectures. Around 60 people received their doctorates or habilitation from him.
Statements about the future
In his more recent publications and interviews he deals, among other things, with the future of the computer and explains that future computer applications can hardly be adequately described with today's understanding. To explain future applications, he therefore uses newly interpreted technical terms such as telepathy or teleportation .
“As a playground for such considerations, Maurer uses something that is often ridiculed in his guild - science fiction stories. 'I use it to create scenarios that could occur,' says the professor. ... "
In his lectures he also points out the risks of information technology, for example the susceptibility of data networks to terrorist attacks. He also describes the connection of power supply networks and computer networks as very problematic in this context. As a solution, he sees the departure from the Von Neumann principle of equal treatment of programs and data and the relocation of the operating system to the hardware - for example to read-only chip memory - in order to protect it against virus attacks.
Maurer also sees the social risks of globalization for the labor market, agriculture and terrorism, which he sees as being essentially fed by social inequality. He proposes moderate taxes to protect regional agriculture and advocates doing more to help the less developed countries catch up socially and ecologically.
Awards
Maurer is an honorary doctor of the Universities of St. Petersburg , Calgary and Karlsruhe and has been a holder of the Austrian Cross of Honor for Science and Art, First Class and the Great Golden Decoration of Honor of the State of Styria since 2001 . In 1996 he was elected an external member of the Finnish Academy of Sciences .
Web links
- Literature by and about Hermann Maurer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Homepage on iicm.edu
- Interview on 30 years of computer science at TU Graz on fuzo-archiv.at
- Maurer's hypertext system Hyper-G / HyperWave on mprove.de
- Technological Dreams & Nightmares - An Outlook To The (Near) Future (56 'video) Cognitive Design, Lübeck 2005
- Hermann Maurer as a member of the Akademia Europaea
Individual evidence
- ↑ http://austria-forum.org/af/Wissenssammlungen/Wwissenschaftler/Maurer,_Hermann (accessed on December 13, 2016)
- ↑ http://www.zemanek.at/files/oj0502.pdf (queried on December 27, 2016)
- ↑ Directory of members: Hermann Maurer. Academia Europaea, accessed on August 1, 2017 (English, with biographical and other information).
- ↑ http://www.me-tagung.at/99/~zeita.htm
- ↑ http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/about/Members/_id2d66_/hm_hp/publications (queried on December 27, 2016)
- ↑ http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/about/Members/_id2d66_/hm_hp/lectures (queried on December 27, 2016)
- ↑ http://www.iicm.tugraz.at/about/Members/_id2d66_/hm_hp/supervisions (queried on December 27, 2016)
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKxQb6sQDvo
- ↑ Stephanie Lob: Dinosaurs with visions of the future. In: welt.de . July 4, 2000, accessed October 7, 2018 .
- ↑ Foreign Members. (No longer available online.) Finnish Academy of Science and Letters, archived from the original on July 20, 2011 ; accessed on May 6, 2016 . 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. Chair for Interactive Systems and Data Science: Hermann Maurer (1978–2009) | Günter Haring (1981–1986) | Klaus Daughtermann (2004–2011) | Frank cap (since 2006) | Arno Scharl (2006–2007) | Stefanie Lindstaedt (since 2011) | Matthias Böhm (since 2018) | Hongying Foscht (since 2018)
2. Chair for software technology: Volkmar Haase (1981–2001) | Peter Lucas (1993-2002) | Franz Wotawa (since 2002) | Wolfgang Slany (since 2003) | Alexander Felfernig (since 2009)
3. Chair for Applied Information Processing and Communication Technology: Reinhard Posch (1985–2019) | Vincent Rijmen (2004–2012) | Roderick Paul Bloem (since 2008) | Stefan Mangard (since 2013) | Christian Rechberger (since 2015)
4. Chair for the basics of information processing: Wolfgang Maass (1991–2017) | Franz Aurenhammer (since 1993)
5. Chair for machine vision and display: Franz Leberl (1992–2013) | Horst Bischof (since 2004) | Dieter Schmalstieg (since 2004) | Gerhard Reitmayr (2009–2013) | Vincent Lepetit (since 2014) | Thomas Pock (since 2014)
6. Chair for Computer Graphics and Knowledge Visualization: Wolf-Dietrich Fellner (since 2005) | Tobias Schreck (since 2015)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Maurer, Hermann |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Maurer, Hermann A. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian computer scientist, author of science fiction literature |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 26, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |