Wolfgang Coy

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Wolfgang Coy in the Turing Bus 2019

Wolfgang Coy (born November 3, 1947 in Frankfurt am Main ) is a German computer scientist . He is emeritus professor for computer science at the Humboldt University in Berlin . He was head of the Chair of Computer Science in Education and Society with a focus on digital media, computer science and society , intellectual property, theory of computer science, social and cultural history of computer science, subject didactics of computer science and philosophical, ethical and theoretical questions in computer science.

Life

After graduating from high school, Wolfgang Coy studied electrical engineering , mathematics and philosophy at the TH Darmstadt , which he completed in 1972 as a graduate engineer in mathematics. He received his PhD in computer science in 1975 with a dissertation on the complexity of hardware tests. From 1979 he took over a professorship for computer science at the University of Bremen . Since 1996 he has been Professor of Computer Science at the Humboldt University in Berlin .

Coy is the German delegate in the Computer and Society section of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and one of the first ten Fellows of the Gesellschaft für Informatik (GI). He has been a member of the Leibniz Society in Berlin since 2011 . He is a founding member of the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology (HZK) and Chairman of the Media Commission of the Academic Senate of the Humboldt University in Berlin . From 2006 to 2009 he was Dean of the Mathematics and Natural Sciences Faculty II at Humboldt University. As a board member, he supports the work of the Berlin Foundation Network of the Alcatel-Lucent Foundation for Communication Research . He is also a member of the advisory board of the Forum Computer Scientists for Peace and Social Responsibility (FIfF).

Among other things, he is co-editor of Information & Culture: A Journal of History and co-organizer of the HyperKult conference series, which has been held since 1991 .

On September 29, 2018, Wolfgang Coy was awarded the FIfF's Weizenbaum Medal .

Fonts

  • Industrial Robots - Archeology of the Second Creation. Rotbuch, Berlin 1985, ISBN 3-88022-297-5 .
  • with Lena Bonsiepen: Experience and calculation - On the criticism of expert system technology. Springer, Berlin 1989.
  • Structure and operation of computer systems. 2nd Edition. Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1991.
  • with Frieder Nake, Jörg-Martin Pflüger, Arno Rolf, Jürgen Seetzen, Dirk Siefkes and Reinhard Stransfled (eds.): Perspectives on computer science (theory of computer science). Vieweg, Braunschweig / Wiesbaden 1992.
  • What is, what can, what is 'Computer Science and Society'? In: Britta Schinzel (Ed.): Interfaces: On the relationship between computer science and society (theory of computer science). Vieweg, 1996.
  • Components of the Turing galaxy. In: E. Bulmahn , K. van Haaren, D. Hensche, M. Kieper, H. Kubicek, R. Rilling, R. Schmiede (eds.): Information Society-Media-Democracy. Series Forum Wissenschaft. BdWi-Verlag, Marburg 1996.
  • Defining discipline . Springer, 1997
  • with Martin Warnke , Georg Christoph Tholen : HyperKult. History, theory and context of digital media. Stroemfeld, Basel / Frankfurt am Main 1997.
  • Media Control - Who Controls the Internet? In: Sybille Krämer (Ed.): Media-Computer-Reality: Reality Concepts and New Media. Suhrkamp, ​​Frankfurt am Main 1998.
  • with Martin Warnke and Georg Christoph Tholen: HyperKult II. For determining the location of analog and digital media. transcript, Bielefeld 2005.
  • Between the disciplines. Inroads - The SIGCSE Bulletin, 2004.
  • For determining the location of analog and digital media. Transcript, Bielefeld 2005.
  • Market and Agora: Community Building by Internet In: William Aspray, Paul E. Ceruzzi: The internet and American business. MIT Press, Cambridge / London 2010.
  • with Claus Pias (Ed.): Powerpoint - Power and Influence of a Presentation Program. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2009.
  • with Debora Weber-Wulff , Christina Class, Constanze Kurz , David Zellhöfer: Remorse - Ethical Problems of Computer Science. transcript, Bielefeld 2009.
  • with Peter Schirmbacher (Ed.): Computer science in the GDR . Humboldt University of Berlin (edoc), Berlin 2010.
  • with Hansjürgen Garstka (Ed.): "If I had had a worthy successor ..." - Wilhelm Steinmüller's time as Professor of Applied Computer Science at the University of Bremen. Humboldt University of Berlin (edoc), Berlin 2014.
  • There is a suspicion that you are suspicious ... In: Frank Fuchs-Kittowski ; Werner Kriesel (Ed.): Computer science and society. Festschrift for the 80th birthday of Klaus Fuchs-Kittowski . Peter Lang Internationaler Verlag, Frankfurt am Main / Bern / Bruxelles / New York / Oxford / Warszawa / Vienna 2016, ISBN 978-3-631-66719-4 .

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SURNAME Coy, Wolfgang
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German computer scientist
DATE OF BIRTH November 3, 1947
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main