Juerg Gutknecht

Jürg Gutknecht (born January 3, 1949 in Bülach ) is a Swiss computer scientist . Together with Niklaus Wirth, he developed the Oberon programming language and the operating system of the same name, and expanded the Oberon- Modula - Pascal language family to include Active Oberon and Zonnon .

Life

Jürg Gutknecht is a professor in the Computer Science Department at ETH Zurich . In 1995, as head of the IT department, he introduced the first American-style credit system. From 2002 to 2014 he was full professor and head of the Institute for Computer Systems at ETH.

From 1967 to 1970 Gutknecht worked in real-time system programming at Swissair . From 1970 to 1974 he studied mathematics at the ETH and was also a working student at IBM . In 1978 he obtained his doctorate with a dissertation on differentiable functional spaces. Sc. Math. After three years as a math teacher at the canton school Heerbrugg, he joined the Lilith / Modula research group of Prof. Niklaus Wirth in 1981 . In 1985, after a stay at the Xerox PARC research laboratory in California, he was elected assistant professor at the ETH. Then he developed the Oberon programming language and the operating system of the same name together with Wirth.

Jürg Gutknecht's research focus is on programming languages, compilers and runtime systems, especially in the areas of object models and component technology. These include the Zonnon programming language and the Bluebottle runtime platform .

Publications

• Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht: Project Oberon . Addison-Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0-201-54428-8 .

Web links

• ETHZ who's who

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Farewell ETH Zurich, Prof. Dr. Juerg Gutknecht . In: 11 professors appointed at both ETHs . ETH Board, media releases. September 27, 2013. Retrieved March 24, 2014.