Werner Zorn
Werner Zorn (* 24. September 1942 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German computer scientist and Internet - pioneer .
From 2001 to 2007 he was professor for communication systems at the Hasso Plattner Institute at the University of Potsdam , previously he was head of a computer center and professor at the University of Karlsruhe .
Life
Werner Zorn, son of Professor Erich Zorn , attended elementary school in Bad Soden am Taunus from 1949 to 1953 , then the Leibniz Realgymnasium in Frankfurt a. M.-Höchst . After graduation in 1962 he studied at the Technical University of Karlsruhe Electrical Engineering , field of study telecommunications engineering and holds a graduate engineer (Dipl.-Ing.) End 1967. He received his PhD then at the Institute of messages engineer and computer scientist Karl Steinbuch with a thesis setting for linear and non-linear classifiers on the field of character recognition .
In 1972 he moved to the newly founded department of computer science at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) , where he was responsible for the establishment, operation and further development of the service computing center for the computer science department (IRA) for the next 25 years . After being appointed professor in 1979, he chose the subjects of methodical performance analysis and data communication as his main areas of work, which he has continued to pursue ever since.
Zorn set early milestones with the first German Internet E-Mail in 1984, the connection of China to the international computer networks in 1987, and the founding of the Xlink company in 1989 as one of the first German Internet service providers .
In his function as Admin-C for the domain "germany" with the e-mail address zorn @ germany, he was committed to establishing an open network of different computer networks in the German academic sector (CSNET, EARN, EUnet, etc.). This brought him into confrontation with the DFN-Verein and became the main critic of the strictly OSI- oriented funding policy, which was directed against the TCP / IP-based Internet until the 1990s.
After moving to the Hasso Plattner Institute (HPI) at the University of Potsdam in 2001, Werner Zorn devoted himself to teaching and research on the problem of hierarchically consistent modeling of communication systems , which in 2007 in particular resulted in a methodically new approach to the quantitative analysis of discrete dynamic systems .
Honors (selection)
- 2006: Awarded the Federal Cross of Merit on ribbon
- 2013: Induction into the Internet Hall of Fame , Category Pioneers
- 2014: Presentation of the Chinese Government Friendship Award
- 2016: Honorary member of the Leibniz Society of Sciences in Berlin .
Publications (selection)
- 1985 Latest Network News March 1985 Special
- 1988 How China was connected to the international computer networks
- 1995 with Martin Haas: Methodical performance analysis of computing systems. Manual for Computer Science 2.6, A. Endres, H. Krallmann, P. Schnupp (Eds.). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich
- 1996 Does the Internet end in chaos? , German Internet Congress 1996 in Karlsruhe, May 1996
- 1997 Has Germany slept through the Internet development? , German Internet Congress 1997 in Düsseldorf, May 1997
- 1998 About the failed German Internet development
- 2007 FMC-QE - A New Approach in Quantitative Modeling (PDF; 308 kB)
- 2016 On the usefulness of comprehensible term definitions using the example of “information”. In: Fuchs-Kittowski, Frank ; Kriesel, Werner (ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Frankfurt a. M., Bern, Bruxelles, New York, Oxford, Warszawa, Vienna: Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, PL Academic Research, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 (print), E- ISBN 978-3-653- 06277-9 (e-book).
Music & IT
- 1988 Music and computer science - building bridges , version dated March 25, 1988 (self-published)
- 1995 semester concert of the Collegium Musicum of the University of Karlsruhe, February 11, 1995, conductor: Hubert Heitz, soloist: Werner Zorn, piano
Web links
- Literature by and about Werner Zorn in the catalog of the German National Library
- curriculum vitae
- First email to Germany
- Publications
- Story of XLINK
- 20 years ago: German Internet pioneer connects China to the Internet (PDF; 65 kB) - HPI press release with background information, September 18, 2007, last accessed on January 1, 2016
Individual evidence
- ↑ KIT portal to Germany's First Internet E-Mail
- ↑ Home Page of the China Internet Museum
- ↑ Xlink Newsletter No. 1/90 Foreword
- ↑ Tagesschau-Online Interview with Werner Zorn: "At that time my email address was zorn @ germany"
- ^ Untold Internet: The Internet-OSI Standards Wars
- ↑ Golem.de : Federal Cross of Merit for Prof. Werner Zorn from July 7, 2006
- ↑ Internet Hall of Fame Inductees Werner Zorn
- ^ Top Ten Achievements of Talent Introduction for the 65th Anniversary of New China
- ↑ Timeline to Top 10 Achievements
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Zorn, Werner |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist, professor of communication systems |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 24, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Frankfurt am Main |