Michael Waidner

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Michael Waidner (2017)

Michael Waidner (* 1961 in Mühlacker ) is a German computer scientist . He is the head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt .

Life

Michael Waidner received his diploma in 1986 from the University of Karlsruhe and did his doctorate there in 1991 in computer science. The title of his dissertation was "Byzantine distribution without cryptographic assumptions despite any number of errors". From 1994 to 2006 he headed research in the field of IT security and data protection at IBM Research - Zurich and was one of the initiators of the Zurich Information Security Center at ETH Zurich . He then moved to IBM in New York, where he was IBM Chief Technology Officer for Security and Chairman of the IBM Security Architecture Board until September 2010.

Since 2010 he has been Professor of Information Security at the Computer Science Department at the Technical University of Darmstadt and Head of the Fraunhofer Institute for Secure Information Technology in Darmstadt and Birlinghoven . Waidner is also director of the Center for Research in Security and Privacy , the national research center for applied cybersecurity. He is visiting professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem .

Waidner has also been Chief Digital Officer of the City of Darmstadt since 2017 .

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and an ACM Distinguished Scientist.

Publications

Waidner is the author and co-author of more than 130 scientific and technical publications in the areas of security, privacy, reliability and cryptography .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In conversation: Michael Waidner: “The users are gradually becoming more sensible” . ISSN  0174-4909 ( faz.net [accessed October 29, 2019]).
  2. ↑ Michael Waidner: Byzantine distribution without cryptographic assumptions despite any number of errors. 1991, Retrieved October 29, 2019 .
  3. ↑ Michael Waidner. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, press release accessed on June 6, 2011
  5. ^ Department of Computer Science: Michael Waidner. Retrieved November 6, 2019 .
  6. ↑ New "Chief Digital Officer". In: Digital City Darmstadt. Retrieved October 4, 2019 .
  7. ↑ List of publications on DBLP

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personal data
SURNAME Waidner, Michael
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German cryptologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1961
PLACE OF BIRTH Mühlacker