Rolf Kickuth

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Rolf Kickuth (born November 20, 1952 in Herne ) is a German science journalist and publisher . He runs the "Agency and Publishing Rubikon GbR " in Gaiberg .

Career

Rolf Kickuth studied chemistry and electrical engineering in Erlangen and Bochum after a two-year period with the German Armed Forces . In 1980 he completed a journalistic internship with Erlanger Nachrichten with a focus on university reporting . He then wrote as a freelance science journalist for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , Bild der Wissenschaft and Die Welt , among others , and was then employed as an editor at Verlag Chemie .

In 1990 he founded the "Rubikon Agency for Scientific and Technical Information". There he was, among other things, head of the German editorial team of the weekly newspaper Chemische Rundschau and editor-in-chief of the Informatik Spektrum . Artificial intelligence has been his special field of interest for a long time . He developed the newspaper AXON - Zeitung für Real World Computing , which he published from 1992 to 1994. In 2001 he acquired the journal Chemie in Labor und Biotechnik (CLB) from the Brönner Umschau Group and has been editor-in-chief since then. He is also the editor and author of several books.

Publications (selection)

  • Simply Flying learn McGyro - The theory for gyroplane -UL bill. Agency and publishing house Rubikon, 2017; 2nd edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-9810449-4-2 .
  • (Co-editor with Robert Stephani von) Viktor Obendraufs beautiful experiments - Volume 1: Laboratory & Theory / Education & Entertainment . Agency and publishing house Rubikon, 2015. (2nd edition 2016, ISBN 978-3-9810449-2-8 ).
  • (Co-editor with Robert Stephani von) Viktor Obendraufs beautiful experiments - Volume 2: Industry & Applications / Household & Nature . Agency and publishing house Rubikon, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9810449-3-5 .
  • (Co-author of) Searching for traces in Gaiberg - A book for the 700th anniversary in 2012 . Agency and publishing house Rubikon, 2016, ISBN 978-3-9810449-1-1 .
  • (Co-author with Maren Bulmahn) Everything repetition - or what ??? the Bachelor asks the laboratory assistant . Agency and publishing house Rubikon, 2005, ISBN 3-9810449-0-8 .
  • AXON - Newspaper for Real World Computing. Rubikon agency and publishing house, 1992–1994.
  • Thought about : PC technology in ten years , Informatik Spektrum 220–222 (1998)
  • Neuromorphic engineering : bottom up instead of top down research - approaches to simulating a brain - memristors as bearers of hope. CLB 61, 2010, pp. 440-451.
  • “The Next Big Thing” - computer hardware: From the Von Neumann bottleneck to memristive neuromorphic chips. CLB 67, 2016, pp. 132-150.
  • Machine learning and artificial intelligence (main topic). CLB 69, 2018, pp. 108-165.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Gaiberg community
personal data
SURNAME Kickuth, Rolf
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German science journalist
DATE OF BIRTH November 20, 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Herne