Robert Piloty (computer scientist)

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Robert Piloty (born June 6, 1924 in Munich ; † January 21, 2013 ) was a German computer scientist and university professor . He was one of the pioneers in the field of the construction of program-controlled computing systems and was one of the founding fathers of computer science courses in Germany.

As a member of the advisory board and chairman of the commission for the introduction of computer science courses in Germany, he played a key role in the introduction and design of computer science courses throughout Germany. In 1964 he was appointed professor of electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt (today: Technical University of Darmstadt ), where he was also significantly involved in the development of the computer science course. With the renaming of the building, formerly named after the chemist Eduard Zintl , into the “Robert Piloty Building” after its renovation was completed in 2004, the TU Darmstadt honored his services in Darmstadt and throughout Germany.

As a member of the General Assembly and as Vice President of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP), Robert Piloty represented German computer science internationally for many years.

Life

Robert Piloty was born on June 6, 1924, the son of Hans Piloty . After studying electrical engineering , he did his doctorate on a topic from microwave technology at the Technical University of Munich . Inspired by a study visit at the American Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), the PERM (Program- Controlled Electronic Computing System Munich) emerged from his initiative and under his technical direction from 1949 at the Technical University of Munich (today: Technical University of Munich). The extremely successful PERM project under the overall direction of his father Hans Piloty and his mathematician colleague Robert Sauer established the necessary hardware and software basis for many further research work in the then emerging field of computer science. The PERM was used for many years in the computer center of the TH Munich and in the training of development engineers for the German computer industry. It can be viewed today in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. After the end of the PERM activities, Robert Piloty went to Zurich as deputy head of the IBM research laboratory in 1955 and in 1957 took over the management of system planning at SEL in Stuttgart. Since 1961 an adjunct professor at the TH Munich, he was appointed to the chair for communications processing in the Faculty of Electrical Engineering at the TH Darmstadt in 1964. He founded the Institute for Information Processing, which later became today's Institute for Data Technology with now four professorships.

In his research he has dealt with a variety of areas, from microwave technology to computer-aided circuit design and hardware description languages ​​(HDLs) to design databases. In particular, the development of the first HDLs at register transfer level was continued in the international CONLAN working group, which, under the leadership of Robert Piloty, developed a frame of reference for the definition of standardized hardware description languages ​​with precise semantics in the time before VHDL and Verilog .

Robert Piloty retired in 1990.

Robert Piloty Prize

Since 2016, the Robert Piloty Prize has been awarded every two years by the Computer Science, Electrical and Information Technology and Mathematics departments at TU Darmstadt. He continues the Alwin Walther Medal of the TU Darmstadt, which was awarded jointly by the Computer Science and Mathematics departments.

Fonts

  • Hans Piloty , Robert Piloty, Hans-Otto Leilich and W. Proebster: The program-controlled electronic computer system Munich (PERM) , NTZ 8, Nov / Dec 1953
  • Wolfgang Hilberg , Robert Piloty: Basics of electronic digital circuits. 2nd Edition. Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-21762-3
  • Wolfgang Hilberg, Robert Piloty (Ed.): Second [2.] Darmstadt Colloquium. Oldenbourg, Munich 1979 (microprocessors and their applications, 2)
  • R. Piloty et al .: CONLAN Report , Springer Lecture Notes in Comp. Science, 1983
  • R. Piloty: The secret of success of the Internet , yearbook 2001 Braunschweig. Knowledge Society, Cramer Verlag 2002

Awards

literature

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Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Piloty, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German engineer, co-founding father of computer science courses in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH June 6, 1924
PLACE OF BIRTH Munich
DATE OF DEATH January 21, 2013