Kurt Geihs

Kurt Geihs (born April 29, 1955 in Meddersheim ) is a German computer scientist and professor of computer science .

Life

Kurt Geihs studied computer science ( diploma ) at the Technical University of Darmstadt from 1975 to 1980 and computer science (master) at the University of California , Los Angeles (UCLA) from 1980 to 1981 . In 1984 he did his doctorate in computer science at RWTH Aachen University under Otto Spaniol on the subject of performance evaluation of computer networks.

From 1985 to 1992 he was a research assistant at the European Networking Center (ENC) of IBM Deutschland GmbH in Heidelberg, where he did research in the fields of network operating systems and network management and represented IBM in the international standardization of Open Distributed Processing ( ODP ). During this time he was seconded to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM in Hawthorne / New York in 1988/89 to contribute to the development of high-speed communications.

In 1992 Geihs was appointed to a professorship for distributed systems in the department of computer science at the Goethe University in Frankfurt . His main research areas were middleware systems and network and system management. In 2000 he spent a sabbatical at the Microsoft Research Center in Cambridge, UK. In 2001 he accepted an endowed professorship for “Intelligent Networks and Management of Distributed Systems” in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at the Technical University of Berlin with a focus on research in the areas of system management and infrastructures for distributed software components. In 2004 and 2006 he worked as a visiting professor at the University of Pretoria in South Africa. In 2004 Geihs was appointed to the University of Kassel . There he heads the Distributed Systems department in the Electrical Engineering / Computer Science department. The focus of research and teaching is on adaptive, context-sensitive distributed software systems, multi-robot systems and interdisciplinary software development methods, taking into account the social embedding of technology. The field of expertise includes the soccer robot team CarpeNoctem, which regularly takes part in international tournaments in the RoboCup Mid Size League with self-developed autonomous robots . Geihs was the spokesman for the LOEWE focus on designing technical-social networking in situational ubiquitous systems (VENUS) at the University of Kassel, where seven departments from different disciplines cooperated. He was also the founding director of the Scientific Center for Information Technology Design ITeG , in which departments from four different departments work on joint research projects. Further research stays as a visiting scientist led him to the Sintef Research Institute in Trondheim, Norway in 2011 and to the FBK Research Institute in Trento, Italy in 2014.

Web links

• Literature by and about Kurt Geihs in the catalog of the German National Library
• Geih's publication overview on the chair's website
• Geihs publications overview at Google Scholar
• Chair at the University of Kassel
• Scientific Center for Information Technology Design (ITeG)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Media information No. 213 - October 22, 2001 , press office of the TU Berlin. Retrieved September 2, 2015.
2. ^ Department of Electrical Engineering / Computer Science, University of Kassel
3. ↑ LOEWE focus on VENUS