Otto Spaniol

Otto Spaniol (born April 11, 1945 ) is a retired German computer scientist and university professor .

Life

Spaniol studied mathematics and physics at the University of Saarbrücken until 1971 and completed his studies with a doctorate to become a Dr. rer. nat. He initially took on a teaching position at Saarbrücken University as an assistant professor, but moved to Bonn University in 1976 , where he taught until 1981. In 1981 he accepted a call from the University of Frankfurt / Main to the Chair of Operating Systems and in 1984 was appointed C4 Professor to Aachen, to the Chair of Communication and Distributed Systems . Spaniol has been retired since 2010.

Spaniol is the publisher of a specialist journal for the use of information systems, PIK - Praxis der Informationsverarbeitung und Kommunikation , which is published four times a year by De Gruyter Verlag .

Trivia

Under the pseudonym Alois Potton, Spaniol published the book Abfalls der Informatik: Secrets and Nasties .

"His disrespectful style earned Otto Spaniol - even if he was initially able to hide behind Alois Potton - a reputation that the emeritus has now accepted ... It was the fool's privilege to read the riot act to someone who was apparently exalted above criticism." "

- Christian Bala / pmz, c't, 2012

Awards (selection)

• 1994: IFIP Silver Core Award (1994)
• 1998: Marin Drinov Award from the Bulgarian Science Academy
• Honorary doctorate from the Bulgarian Science Academy

Web links

• Literature by and about Otto Spaniol in the catalog of the German National Library
• RWTH Aachen Chair for Computer Science 4 , accessed on December 21, 2013

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DNB states 1942 as the year of birth, VIAF and Kürschner's Deutscher Schehrten-Kalender Online 1945.
2. ↑ Press release on uni-muenster.de. Retrieved December 21, 2013 . 
3. ↑ ifip.org: Symposium on Network Information Processing Systems Was Held in Bulgaria Last October. Retrieved December 21, 2013 .