Theo Harder

Theo Härder (born August 28, 1945 in Bad Neustadt an der Saale ) is professor of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern .

Life

Theo Härder studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt until 1971 and received his doctorate there in 1975. The title of his dissertation was "The access time behavior of relational database systems". A year later he went to the IBM Research Center in San Jose . In 1977 he became a professor in the computer science department of the TH Darmstadt . In 1980 he followed the call to the University of Kaiserslautern, where he has been researching and teaching in the department of computer science ever since.

Services

Theo Härder has received several awards for extraordinary scientific achievements in the field of database technology . Among other things, he was involved in the development of System R , the first relational database management system.

Publications

• Database systems - concepts and techniques of implementation , Theo Härdner and Erhard Rahm, Berlin New York Tokyo, Springer, 1999
• Database systems - concepts and techniques of implementation , Theo Härdner and Erhard Rahm, Berlin New York Tokyo, Springer, 2nd edition, 2001

Awards

• Konrad Zuse Medal for services to computer science , 2001
• Honorary doctorate from the University of Oldenburg , 2002

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1. ↑ Härder, Theo: The access time behavior of relational database systems. Dissertation, Darmstadt 1975
2. ↑ Press release December 11, 2002: "Obsessed with his scientific work" Department of Computer Science awards an honorary doctorate to Prof. Dr. Theo Härder - University of Oldenburg. Retrieved November 8, 2019 . 
3. ↑ Ceremonial award of the honorary doctorate (PDF; 60 kB).

Web links

• Literature by and about Theo Härder in the catalog of the German National Library
• Ceremonial award of the honorary doctorate (PDF file; 59 kB)
• Honoring and awarding an honorary doctorate (PDF file; 139 kB)
• Theo Härder at the Technical University of Kaiserslautern