Jürgen Eickel
Jürgen Eickel (born December 17, 1935 in Munster ) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich .
Life
Eickel studied mathematics and physics at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster , where he also received his doctorate in mathematics in 1961 in addition to the state examination for teaching at secondary schools. In 1963 he moved to the Institute for Mathematics at the Technical University of Munich and, after completing his habilitation in 1968, worked as a university lecturer and scientific adviser. The call for a full professorship for “Automata Theory and Formal Languages” at the TH Darmstadt (1971) was proposed in favor of a position as a research group leader for the subject “Programming and dialog languages and their compilers” at the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen- Nuremberg in order to take over the second chair for computer science at the Technical University of Munich shortly afterwards. Eickel is one of the personalities who were part of the separation of computer science from mathematics.
Eickel is one of the pioneers in the field of compiler construction . He developed procedures to generate the standard software components required for the construction of compilers from specifications, instead of laborious and error-prone programming. In addition to the early compiler-generating systems MUG1 and MUG2, he also used this practice in the processing of structured documents and in the creation of intuitive user interfaces.
For eleven years he was a member of the Federal Jury for Mathematics and Computer Science in the “ Jugend forscht ” competition, and was its chairman for the last five years. With advice and action, he supported the establishment of a computer science course at the Medical University of Lübeck , which awarded him an honorary doctorate in 1998 .
Web links
- Page as emeritus at the Technical University of Munich
- Literature by and about Jürgen Eickel in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Eickel, Jürgen |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist and professor at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1935 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Muenster |