Manfred Nagl
Manfred Nagl (born May 16, 1944 in Landskron , now the Czech Republic) is a German computer scientist and professor. He retired in spring 2009 after having worked at RWTH Aachen for 23 years .
Career
Nagl studied at the Friedrich Alexander University in Erlangen (FAU). After two years of industry time at the research center of Siemens AG in Erlangen, he returned to the Institute of computer science at FAU back and received his doctorate in 1974 at the Chair by Hans-Juergen Schneider graph - grammars .
After his habilitation in 1978 at the Technical Faculty of FAU, he accepted a C3 professorship at the University of Koblenz in 1979 and a C4 professorship at the University of Osnabrück in 1981 . In 1986 he became the holder of the Chair of Computer Science 3 (software technology) at RWTH Aachen University . He turned down an offer from the University of Zurich in 1992 . In August 2009 he retired and handed over the Chair of Computer Science 3 to Bernhard Rumpe .
From 1990 to 1997 he was spokesman for the DFG research group SUKITS, from 1997 to 2006 spokesman for Collaborative Research Center 476 and from 2006 to 2009 spokesman for transfer area 61 of the DFG. A considerable number of his former employees are professors.
Manfred Nagl was chairman of the IT faculty conference from 2006 to 2008 (deputy chairman from 2009 to 2011), and from 2007 to 2008 he was chairman of the 4ING faculty conference for engineering and IT at universities. V. (09-11 member of the management committee). From 2005 to 2007 he was and since 2011 a member of the board of Informatics Europe, a kind of European faculty day informatics. There he heads a commission for the evaluation of computer science faculties. In EQANIE (European computer science accreditation) he is the vice chairman of the accreditation commission.
In 2009 he was made a Fellow of the Society for Computer Science. On 26 November 2010 he was on the faculty of electrical engineering, computer science and mathematics of the University of Paderborn the honorary doctorate (Dr. hc nat. Rer.) Awarded.
Focus of work
- Graph replacement systems
- Tool making for computer science and engineering
- Software architectures
- Development processes
- Programming languages for large software systems
Publications
- 25 books as author, editor and co-editor, 150 specialist articles
Web links
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nagl, Manfred |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 16, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Landskron , Czech Republic |