Michael Koch (computer scientist)

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Michael Koch

Michael Koch (born May 16, 1968 in Munich ) is a computer scientist and university professor for computer science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich , where he has held the professorship for programming cooperative systems since 2007.

Life

Michael Koch studied computer science at the Technical University of Munich from 1988 . Here he joined the Corps Alemannia , which reciprocated him in 1989. In 1993 he did his doctorate under Johann Schlichter on the subject of cooperation in document processing - development of a group editor environment for the Internet . An industrial stay at the Xerox Research Center Europe was followed by a habilitation in computer science at the Technical University of Munich and substitute professorships at the University of Dortmund , the University of Bremen and the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich .

Since 2007 he has held the professorship for programming cooperative systems at the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Munich.

Koch set up the interdisciplinary research group Cooperation Systems in Munich, in which he deals with various topics related to the design of socio-technical systems to support teams and communities ( CSCW , Social Computing Knowledge Management ).

From 2003 to 2012, Koch was spokesman for the Computer-Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW) group of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI) and a member of the governing bodies of the human-computer interaction and business informatics departments of the GI. Since 2010 he has been deputy spokesman for the human-computer interaction department.

In 2009 he took part in an information defense exercise of the German Navy and has been a member of Crew 56 since then. In 2010 he founded the Freundeskreis Frigatte BAYERN eV in Munich together with the politician Rudolf Peterke to support the crew of the frigate Bavaria and has since served as vice chairman .

Since 2011 he has been married to Jeannette Brosig, who works as an economist at the University of Duisburg-Essen .

Scientific work / results

Important (scientific) contributions that Koch pushed are:

Community mirrors

While initiatives in Web 2.0 make an important contribution to making it easier and easier to provide information, companies often lack an opportunity to simply find information (which one was not looking for). In the sense of ubiquitous computing, community mirrors, large interactive wall screens, provide a "window into information systems" that visualizes information from it for unplanned use.

The software for community mirrors is being developed as an open source project; the first prototypes, for example, could be seen in the exhibition on the German government's research ship MS Wissenschaft 2009.

Enterprise 2.0 case study network

Enterprise 2.0 is the use of social software in companies. This is combined with a technical reorientation in knowledge management in companies away from the creation of knowledge silos towards the networking of employees. The Enterprise 2.0 case study network was started in spring 2009 and documents good examples of the use of social software in companies in an objective way to enable use in research and teaching, but also as examples for other companies.

Publications (selection)

  • with Alexander Richter: Enterprise 2.0. Planning, implementation and successful use of social software in companies. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58578-0 (2nd, updated and expanded edition. Ibid 2009, ISBN 978-3-486-59054-8 ).
  • with Tom Gross: Computer-Supported Cooperative Work. Oldenbourg, Munich et al. 2007, ISBN 978-3-486-58000-6 .
  • Cooperation in document processing. Development of a group editor environment for the Internet. DUV - Deutscher Universitäts-Verlag et al., Wiesbaden 1997, ISBN 3-8244-2083-X (also: Munich, Technical University, dissertation, 1997).

Functions

Awards and honorary positions

  • 2003: Outstanding Scientific Paper Award at the Bled Conference on Electronic Commerce for the contribution “User Representation in E-Commerce and Collaboration Applications”
  • 2001: Award from the Faculty of Computer Science at the Technical University of Munich for improving the organization of teaching (project to implement an information and communication platform for the Faculty of Computer Science)
  • 2001: Design award of the i3 Summer School "Designing for Communities" for the project "Identity Management & Privacy" (directors: G. de Michelis, G. Crampton Smith)
  • 2001: Werner von Siemens Excellence Award special prize with the student project "Total Information Concept"
  • 1997: Klinggräff Medal
  • 2012 - now: Board member of the Association of Old Corps Students
  • 2010 - now: Deputy. Chairman of the Friends of Frigate Bavaria

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Address directory Kösener and Weinheimer Corpsstudenten 2003/04, p. 271
  2. ^ Website of the Stifterverein Alter Corpsstudenten, www.stifterverein.org
  3. ^ Website of the Freundeskreis Frigatte Bayern, www.fregattebayern-freunde.de
personal data
SURNAME Koch, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich