Wilhelm Schickard Institute

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Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science
Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science
Institute building on the sand
Category: University institute
Carrier: Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen
Facility location: Tübingen
Areas of expertise: Computer science , bioinformatics , media informatics , cognitive science
Management: Wolfgang Rosenstiel
Homepage: www.wsi.uni-tuebingen.de

The Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science (WSI) is part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen . It is named after the astronomer and mathematician Wilhelm Schickard , who constructed the first calculating machine in Tübingen in 1623 .

Replica of Schickard's calculating machine in the WSI computer museum

The institute was founded in 1986 as a joint facility of the then faculties of mathematics and physics with the work areas computer algebra ( Rüdiger Loos ) in the mathematical faculty and computer graphics ( Wolfgang Straßer ) in the faculty of physics. In 1990, the establishment of its own faculty for computer science followed, the only institute of which was the WSI. From October 2002 it formed the Faculty of Information and Cognitive Sciences together with the Psychological Institute . Since October 2010 the Wilhelm Schickard Institute has been part of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences as the Computer Science department.

A special feature of the WSI is the large selection of minor subjects that can be chosen for the computer science course. Among other things, one of the many humanities or social science subjects at the University of Tübingen can be chosen. Since the summer of 2005 there has also been a computer museum in which the computer collection "Electronic Brains" of the Museum of the University of Tübingen MUT is housed.

In November 2007 the institute received the renowned Shared University Research Grant from IBM in an unprecedented amount. In the course of the chair was technical computer science (Wolfgang Rosenstiel) with a z9 - mainframe machines equipped.

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Individual evidence

  1. Baden-Württemberg invests in the future: University of Tübingen sets up a faculty for computer science , in: Computerwoche (June 15, 1990)


Coordinates: 48 ° 32 ′ 5 "  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 16"  E