Peter Schnupp

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Peter Schnupp (born December 7, 1934 in Wiesbaden ) is a German computer scientist and one of the founders of Softlab .

Life

Schnupp worked as a doctor of physics (doctorate at the University of Munich 1962) at the Max Planck Institute for Physics and Astrophysics in Munich, before founding Softlab in Munich in 1971 with Klaus Neugebauer and Gerhard Heldmann . The company was a pioneer in structured programming and rational software development in Germany.

In 1981 he founded InterFace GmbH in Munich; He was also a freelance management consultant in the field of software (sworn expert at the Passau Chamber of Commerce). He is the author of specialist books on computer science topics such as expert systems and prologues and an early German textbook on computer networks (and the Internet precursor DARPA-Net) from 1978.

He developed u. a. the automatic telex information for the Deutsche Bundespost (in operation from 1972), the early interactive work flow operating system Halord, the participation in the main product of Softlab PET / Maestro (in the initial development with Harald Wieler), the interactive text system HIT for Unix computers and Xtext (a text system for the X Window System , e.g. used at BMW for the fully automatic creation of test reports in the body shop) and the Prolog implementation IF-Prolog.

Since the early 1970s he was chairman of the German section of the Association for Computing Machinery .

Publications

  • System programming, de Gruyter 1975
  • Computer networks: design and implementation, de Gruyter, 1978, 2nd edition 1982
  • Expert systems, Oldenbourg 1986
  • Expert systems - not just for computer scientists, Springer 1986
  • Prologue: Introduction to Programming Practice, Hanser 1986
  • Unix - programming with commands: Introduction to practical use, Oldenbourg 1985
  • with Lawrence Bernhard: Productive prolog programming, Prentice-Hall 1987
  • with Nguyen Huu Chau Thuy: Expert system internship, Springer 1987
  • with Nguyen Huu Chau Thuy: knowledge processing and expert systems, handbook of computer science (Albert Endres ed.), Oldenbourg 1989
  • Editor: Modern programming languages: programming languages ​​beyond Algol and Cobol: awk, C ++, CASE, Korn-Shell, Lisp, Objective-C, Prolog, ProMac, REXX, Smalltalk, SQL, Oldenbourg 1991
  • From C to C: porting without problems, Hanser 1990
  • Hypertext, Handbuch der Informatik, Volume 10.1, Munich: Oldenbourg, 1992

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information in his dissertation Munich 1962
  2. ↑ Title of the dissertation: On the theory of magnetization fluctuations and blocking in thin permalloy layers
  3. ↑ An American physics student in Munich
  4. ↑ - among other things used at Deutsche Post for the interactive installation of telephone branch exchanges (in the telephone boutiques) and in Japan for expert system-based control of tunnel boring machines
personal data
SURNAME Schnupp, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist and one of the founders of Softlab
DATE OF BIRTH December 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH Wiesbaden