Konrad Zuse Medal for services to computer science

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In 1987 the Konrad Zuse Medal for Services to Computer Science was donated by the Society for Computer Science in honor of Konrad Zuse and is awarded every two years. The winners are personalities whose outstanding achievements in technology and science have advanced information technology. The Konrad Zuse medals are the most important awards for computer science in Germany.

Award winners

Winner of the Konrad Zuse Medal for services to computer science
year Award winners Work area
1987 Heinz Billing Magnetic drum storage
1989 Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann Forerunner of today's personal computers
1989 Robert Piloty Design methodology for computer hardware
1991 Wilhelm Chamberlain Relay calculators
1993 Carl Adam Petri Distributed systems , concurrency , Petri networks
1995 Kurt Mehlhorn Design of algorithms , complexity theory
1997 José Luis Encarnação Computer graphics
1999 Günter Hotz Formal languages , circuit theory , complexity theory
2001 Theo Harder Databases
2003 Thomas Lengauer Bioinformatics
2006 Ingo Wegener Complexity of Boolean functions , exceptionally committed teaching and promoting young talent
2007 Manfred Broy Systems engineering , software engineering
2009 Reinhard Wilhelm Translator construction , program analysis , development and management of the Leibniz Center for Computer Science at Schloss Dagstuhl
2011 Fritz-Rudolf Güntsch Computer development , inventor of virtual memory , science manager
2011 Volker Strassen Development of algorithms for matrix multiplication and prime number tests
2013 Markus Gross Visual computing and computer animation
2015 Arndt Bode Computer architecture and computer organization
2017 Johannes Buchmann Cyber ​​security research development
2019 Dorothea Wagner Contributions to automated route planning and the optimization of energy systems

Web links

  1. ↑ Frithjof Nagel: Konrad Zuse Medal: Dorothea Wagner receives the highest IT award. Gesellschaft für Informatik, press release from August 13, 2019 from the Science Information Service (idw-online.de), accessed on August 13, 2019.