Ursula Hill-Samelson

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Ursula Hill-Samelson (née Hill) (born December 22, 1935 in Bad Kreuznach ; † January 10, 2013 in Seefeld (Upper Bavaria) ) was a German mathematician , computer science pioneer and university lecturer .

Life

Ursula Hill studied mathematics at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz , where she worked from 1962 to 1963 at the Institute for Applied Mathematics. On November 1, 1963, she followed (with Hans Langmaack ) the mathematician and computer science pioneer Klaus Samelson , who had received a call to Munich, to the Mathematical Institute (later the Institute for Computer Science) at the Technical University of Munich . There she worked as a research assistant from 1969/70 on developing the new "Computer Science" course. In 1970 she received her doctorate in computer science under Friedrich L. Bauer at the Technical University of Munich ( automatic recursive address calculation for higher programming languages, especially for ALGOL 68 ). In 1978 she married Klaus Samelson.

Until the end of 1985 she was a leading member of the Collaborative Research Center 49 of the German Research Foundation (DFG). In 1987 she took part in the inauguration of the Samelson-Platz in Hildesheim, named after her husband . In 1999 she retired. Your interest was u. a. of astronomy, and she sponsored the association of the Allgäuer Volkssternwarte Ottobeuren .

After her death at the age of 77, Ursula Hill-Samelson was buried on January 18, 2013 in Munich's North Cemetery.

Services

Ursula Hill wrote in the early 1960s along with Hans Langmaack in Mainz the first functional Algol 60 - compiler for Siemens in 2002 , graduating in 1962 in mathematics with the work The ALGOL translator ALCOR MAINZ 2002 . At that time, compiler construction was a just emerging discipline in computer science, which was also very difficult with the few computers available. Ursula Hill was the first woman in Germany to go public with an executable compiler.

Fonts

  • AA Grau, U. Hill, Hans Langmaack : Translation of Algol 60. , Handbook for automatic computation; Vol. 1, part b. Basic teachings of the mathematical sciences , Springer Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1967
  • U. Hill, H. Langmaack, HR Schwarz, G. Seegmüller: Efficient Handling of subscripted variables in ALGOL 60 compilers. Proc. Symp. On Symbolic Languages ​​in Data Processing, Rome, p. 331-340. Gordon & Breach, New York 1962.
  • U. Hill: Automatic recursive address calculation for higher programming languages, especially for Algol 68. Dissertation, TU Munich, February 13, 1969
  • Friedrich L. Bauer, Rupert Gnatz, Ursula Hill: Computer Science. Tasks and solutions. First and second part. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, New York, 1975/6. ISBN 3-540-07116-4 and ISBN 0-387-07116-4 ; translated into Russian (1978) and Polish (1981)
  • U. Hill: Special Run-Time Organization Techniques for Algol 68 . Proceeding Compiler Construction, An Advanced Course, 2nd ed. Springer-Verlag London, UK 1976. ISBN 3-540-07542-9

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Private message from the family with ticket: 2013042210006644 confirmed.
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Funeral calendar of the mourning portal of the Süddeutsche Zeitung . Retrieved April 20, 2013.
  4. ↑ Annual report 2007 (PDF; 2.3 MB) of the Deutsches Museum, Munich: inventory no. 2007-290, punched tape with programs for compiler development Alcor Siemens 2002, mixed lot of 146 pieces, original, year of construction: 1963/1964 by: Dr. Hill-Samelson Ursula
  5. ↑ Friedrich L. Bauer (ed.): 40 years of computer science in Munich . Festschrift ( Memento of the original from May 17, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Faculty of Computer Science (IN) of the Technical University of Munich, 2007 Informatik-Club eV, (PDF; 8.8 MB), accessed on May 1, 2012 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.in.tum.de
personal data
SURNAME Hill-Samelson, Ursula
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Hill, Ursula (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician, computer science pioneer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH December 22, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH Bad Kreuznach
DATE OF DEATH January 10, 2013
Place of death Seefeld (Upper Bavaria)