Peter Lockemann

Peter C. Lockemann (born November 17, 1935 in Berlin ) is Professor of Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology and Director of the Research Center for Computer Science Karlsruhe (FZI). He has been retired since March 2004.

Lockemann is considered a pioneer in business informatics, he contributed significantly to the convergence of content between computer science and business administration and is involved in the development of databases and business information systems . He has published four textbooks and over 100 scientific articles.

Life

Lockemann studied electrical engineering at what was then the Technical University of Munich , where he received his doctorate in 1963. He was then a Research Fellow at the California Institute of Technology . From 1970 to 1972 he was a senior researcher at GMD . Since 1972, the year the Faculty of Computer Science was founded at the University of Karlsruhe, he has been a professor there, from 1979 to 1981 Dean, and until his retirement he headed the Institute for Program Structures and Data Organization. Seven of his students have been appointed university professors, three have received a professorship at a technical college.

In 1985 he and several colleagues founded the Research Center for Computer Science Karlsruhe (FZI), of which he was a member of the board for a long time, which is why he is sometimes called Mister FZI . He has also held several visiting professorships in the USA. a. at the California Institute of Technology and MIT , and served as advisor to business and government departments.

For more than ten years he was the German representative in Technical Committee 8 (Information Systems) of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and from 1981 to 1997 Trustee of VLDB Endowment, Inc., from 1993 as President. He is a reviewer for the German Research Foundation (DFG) and is a member of the review committee of several DFG priority programs .

Honors

In 2005, Locke man was German President Horst Koehler , the Order of Merit of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany awarded the Baden-Württemberg Minister President Günther Oettinger thanked him for "outstanding services for the common good". As early as 2003, the Johann Wolfgang Goethe University awarded him an honorary doctorate for his services in research and as a promoter of knowledge transfer into corporate practice.

Web links

• Personal website
• Literature by and about Peter Lockemann in the catalog of the German National Library