Sissi Closs
Elisabeth Sissi Closs (* 1954 in St. Ingbert ) is a German computer scientist and lecturer at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences .
life and work
Sissi Closs initially studied up to the intermediate diploma at the University of Saarland and then completed her studies at the Technical University of Munich as a computer scientist . Since 1997 she has been professor for information and media technology at the University of Karlsruhe. It had a major impact on the development of technical documentation in Germany. In 1987 she founded a service company for software documentation in Munich , with which she was one of the pioneers in the DITA standard. In 1994, 1998 and 2000 it was awarded prizes from the Bavarian State Government , twice with the Total E-Quality award, and in 1999 with the “Cosmo Award 99” from Cosmopolitan . After 25 years, in 2012 she sold the Comet group of companies, which had grown to 75 employees, to Semcon .
In 2011, the specialist magazine Computerwoche counted Closs among the top 100 most important personalities in the German ITC landscape. The criteria for inclusion on the list included a. Weight of the voice in the industry, visionary, special merits, individual professional performance and likely future role.
Awards (selection)
- 2013 TUM Entrepreneur of Excellence
- 2011 Top 100 of the most important personalities in the German ICT landscape
- 2005: GI Fellow of the Society for Computer Science
- 2001 Bavarian State Medal for Social Merit
Publications (excerpt)
- DITA - the topic-based XML standard: a quick start . Springer Vieweg 2015 ISBN 978-3-658-11614-9 ( limited preview )
- Single Source Publishing: modular content for EPUB & Co.entwickler.press 2011 ISBN 978-3-86802-078-6
- with Thomas Zschocke: Innovative information offers with the class concept technology and DITA: Efficient in creation and optimal for use . Springer Verlag 2017 ISBN 978-3-642-53945-9
- with Karin Haag: INFORMIX-SQL: Language description . Carl Hanser Verlag 1991 ISBN 978-3-446-16469-7
- Program generators lex and yacc . R. Oldenbourg Verlag 1992 ISBN 978-3-486-21495-6
- with Hans Peter Röntgen: Bookkeeping with the personal computer: everything you always wanted to know about debit and credit ... 1990 ISBN 978-3-927-99400-3
- Guideline Equality in Technical Documentation . 1995 ISBN 978-3-923-58135-1
Literature reviews
- Publications indexed in the Digital Bibliography & Library Project (DBLP)
- Publications on the academic literature search engine Google Scholar
- Publications at ResearchGate
- Literature by and about Sissi Closs in the bibliographic database WorldCat
Web links
- Website of Sissi Closs at the Karlsruhe University of Applied Sciences
- Profile of Sissi Closs at Comet GmbH ( Memento from December 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
- Manfred Gburek: Sissi Closs: "I do not become dependent" . In: The world . October 18, 1999
Individual evidence
- ^ Andreas Molitor: Economic miracle . In: Berliner Zeitung . April 5, 2001
- ↑ Michael Ziegler: Comet becomes Semcon . In: Automobile Industry . April 16, 2013
- ↑ Eva Kirchesch, Adriana Olivotti: On the matter, sweetheart !: Women and power . John Wiley & Sons 2008 p. 49 ISBN 978-3-527-50380-3 ( limited preview )
- ↑ Alexandra Mesmer: The most important personalities in the German ITK landscape . In: Computerwoche . December 31, 2011
- ↑ Heinrich Vaske, Alexandra Mesmer, Alexander Freimark: TOP 100 - The Computerwoche Ranking: the most important personalities in German IT IDG 2014 p. 158 ISBN 978-3-942-92203-6
- ↑ Alexandra Mesmer: The criteria for choosing the Top 100 ( Memento from April 19, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) In: Computerwoche . December 31, 2011
- ↑ TUM Entrepreneurs of Excellence - 2013 winners
- ↑ Certificate of appointment as GI Fellow ( Memento of the original dated August 13, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Closs, Sissi |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Closs, Elisabeth |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist and university professor |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1954 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | St. Ingbert |