Volker Claus
Volker Claus (born June 22, 1944 near Berlin ) is a German computer scientist and former university professor .
biography
After graduating from high school in 1963 at the Hindenburg School (now Herbartgymnasium ) in Oldenburg iO , Claus studied chemistry, physics and mathematics at the Saarland University in Saarbrücken and graduated in 1967 as a mathematician. He was a research associate at the Institute for Applied Mathematics, professor Günter Hotz and received his doctorate in 1970 with the subject of level realization of circuits . In 1971 he was elected to the Board of Directors of the Society for Applied Mathematics and Mechanics . In 1972, during the ongoing habilitation process , he was appointed to the University of Dortmund , where he founded the Faculty of Computer Science. At that time he was the youngest full professor of computer science in Germany. In 1985 he moved to the University of Oldenburg and founded the Faculty of Computer Science there in 1987. In 1991 he was a co-founder of the OFFIS - Institute for Computer Science in Oldenburg. From 1992 until his retirement in 2009, Volker Claus was head of the “Formal Concepts” chair at the Institute for Formal Methods in Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart .
Claus's scientific focus was initially on theoretical computer science , e.g. B. on the topics of decidability , formal languages and graph grammars . Later he worked in a more application-oriented way in the field of graph theory and algorithms, evolutionary algorithms and modeling of traffic problems.
He was particularly interested in IT training at school, university and at work. He was the initiator of the national computer science competition . From 2003 to 2005 he was chairman of the computer science faculty conference.
Honors
- State Teaching Prize Baden-Württemberg (1996)
- Honorary member of OFFIS (1996)
- Fellow of the Society for Computer Science (2002)
- Honorary doctorate from the University of Koblenz-Landau (2003)
- Honorary member of the Informatik - Forum Stuttgart eV (2006)
- Honorary member of the Alumni Computer Science of the TU Dortmund (2006)
- University Medal of the University of Oldenburg (2009)
- Golden Badge of Honor from the Technical University of Dortmund (2013)
Publications (excerpt)
- Stochastic Automata (1971)
- Introduction to Computer Science (1975)
- Duden Informatik (1988, several editions)
- Computer science and training: GI symposium 98 Computer science and training (1998)
Web links
- Literature by and about Volker Claus in the catalog of the German National Library
- Scientific pedigree
- Dept. of Formal Concepts, University of Stuttgart
swell
- ↑ Volker Claus in retirement ( Memento from May 2, 2014 in the Internet Archive ), press release from the University of Stuttgart
- ^ Certificate of appointment ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Fellow GI
- ↑ Laudation for the award of an honorary doctorate from the University of Koblenz-Landau
- ↑ AIDO Prof. Volker Claus retires
- ↑ Press release on the award of the Medal of Honor from the University of Oldenburg
- ↑ Laudation for the award of the Golden Badge of Honor
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Claus, Volker |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1944 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | near Berlin |