Wolfgang Merzenich

Wolfgang Merzenich (* 1942 in Angermünde ; † January 12, 2012 in Gießen ) was a German computer scientist and university professor .

Life

Wolfgang Merzenich was born in Angermünde in 1942. He began studying mathematics and computer science at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen , which he continued at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Bonn . At the Institute for Automata Theory and Switching Mechanisms of the GMD Research Center for Information Technology , Merzenich was a scientific employee from 1971 to 1973. In 1973 he did his doctorate at the University of Bonn under Karl Heinz Böhling with the dissertation Algebraic Characterization of Additive Automata Arrays . He then worked at the Technical University of Dortmund , where he completed his habilitation in 1980 , first as a research assistant and then as a private lecturer. In 1989 Merzenich was appointed professor for programming languages ​​at the University of Siegen . He made a major contribution to integrating computer science and electrical engineering into a joint department, which he also temporarily headed as dean.

Together with Hans Christoph Zeidler , he wrote the textbook Computer Science for Engineers .

Wolfgang Merzenich retired from the University of Siegen in 2007.

Publications

• A simple mathematical evolution model. 1972.
• Algebraic characterization of additive machine arrays. (= Dissertation) 1974.
• Finite tree types as initial algebras. 1976.
• General operator networks as fixed point equations. (= Habilitation thesis) 1980.
• Operatornets: their unfoldments and coverings. 1981.
• Fractals, dimension, and formal languages. 1993.
• with Hans Christoph Zeidler: Computer science for engineers. An introduction. Teubner, Stuttgart 1997, ISBN 978-3-519-02943-4 ( digitized with the Google book search; with short vita).

literature

• Hans Wojtkowiak: The university mourns ... for Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Merzenich. In: cross section. University of Siegen newspaper. March 2012, p. 17.