Karl-Heinz Werler

Karl-Heinz Werler (born November 7, 1932 in Langenreinsdorf ; † December 6, 1997 in Sülzhayn ) was a German mathematician and computer scientist .

Life

Karl-Heinz Werler obtained his higher education entrance qualification at the Crimmitschau Oberschule in 1951 and then studied mathematics at the University of Leipzig until 1956 . Already during his studies he dealt with the structure and operation of digital calculators and wrote his diploma thesis on it.

Werler took up a job at Carl Zeiss in Jena as an operations assistant and research assistant, where he was the main department head from 1970 to 1976. He worked on problems related to operational preparation and the production of device control computers and was considered to be one of the intellectual fathers of the logical structure of the Zeiss computer ZRA 1 .

Karl-Heinz Werler has been involved in information processing and technical preparation in the production of computers since 1963. The goal was to achieve automation and rationalization at work through a computer-aided working method . For Werler, as head of the main department of basic research at the research management center, graphic information processing moved into the foreground of his scientific work. At the Zeiss factory, he presented numerous papers on the modeling of construction processes and on the design of integrated systems in technical preparation.

In 1968/69 Werler acquired special knowledge in the field of display technology in England , worked on the cybernetics commission of the GDR Research Council and took part in the IFIP congresses in 1968, 1974 and 1978 as well as other international conferences. He also worked for three months at the Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Laxenburg near Vienna. In 1978 Werler was a guest at Bauman University in Moscow .

The Technical University of Magdeburg granted Werler from 1969 lecturer in computer graphics. From the Technical University of Ilmenau he was awarded a Dr.-Ing. doctorate and graduated from the Technical University in Magdeburg in 1972, the teaching certificate for information processing .

In 1976 Werler was appointed university lecturer in Magdeburg and, in 1977, full professor for information processing in technical preparation. He also built up a science department at the university. In 1980 Werler received his doctorate from the Technical University of Magdeburg with the thesis Interactive graphic systems in technical preparation . Werler published 29 scientific papers and gave more than 70 lectures. He also published a textbook.

As a result of a serious illness, Karl-Heinz Werler was disabled in 1985 and recalled in 1986 . Since his retirement he has continued to deal with the human-machine dialogue , turning to the problem of art and computers and showing the variety of possibilities for creating fascinating shapes and structures. He also organized exhibitions and coined the term computer graphics in his lectures . He presented his results and findings in his 1991 volume Programmierte Phantasy .

literature

• Problems of graphic data processing . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1975
• Programmed imagination: computer - pictorial representation - visual artistic design . Akademie-Verlag, Berlin 1991, ISBN 3-05500-705-0