Horst Remus

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Horst Remus (born April 9, 1928 in Hildburghausen ; † May 31, 2007 in Cupertino , California ) was a German-American computer scientist at IBM .

Life

Remus, who still belonged to the Flakhelfer generation, grew up in Rostock and Hamburg and studied mathematics in Hamburg with a diploma in applied mathematics with Lothar Collatz . He was with IBM from 1956, where he stayed until his retirement in 1990. After that he lived in Los Altos .

First he was in the IBM 650 data center in Sindelfingen . From 1960, at the invitation of Karl Ganzhorn, he set up the mathematical department (software) and the computer center in the IBM Laboratory in Böblingen . There software simulation programs and system programs were developed and Remus also initiated an Algol project for the IBM / 360. In 1965 he moved to the overall management of the European IBM laboratories in Nice (then headed by Byron Havens ) and was responsible for software there. From 1969 he led the development of an operating system compatible with the OS / 360 for the smaller computers of the System 360, which was initiated by the Böblingen Research Center. Although the project goal was set in 1970 in favor of an expansion of the existing OS / 360 operating system, it was later developed into DOS / VS in the Dutch IBM laboratory. In 1970 he went to the USA as a manager at the IBM research center in Raleigh (North Carolina) as the successor to James H. Frame. There he developed telecommunications software. From 1973 he was in Palo Alto and from 1977 acting head of the new IBM software laboratory in Santa Teresa (San Jose) , later under the direction of Frame. He was significantly involved in the development of database systems (IMS, DB2 ), dealt with compiler development and built one of the first software management groups at IBM (one of whom was Capers Jones ) and introduced software metrics at IBM . He also initiated a collaboration with Friedrich L. Bauer (CIP project in Munich).

He was a passionate chess player and in his retirement also dealt with the history of the game of chess (origins on the Silk Road ). In 1962 he lectured on the programming of Go at the IFIP Congress in Munich . Most recently he was a US citizen.

Fonts

  • Programming and application of electronic number calculators, Berlin: Schiele and Schön 1963 (Technical Handbook)
  • “Simulation of a Learning Machine for Playing Go” (by H. Remus from IBM Laboratories Boeblingen) in “Go Monthly Review” by Nihon Ki-in 7/1964, pp. 35-39

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Horst Remus in the US Social Security Death Directory (SSDI), accessed October 5, 2018
personal data
SURNAME Remus, Horst
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American computer scientist at IBM
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Hildburghausen
DATE OF DEATH May 31, 2007
Place of death Cupertino , California