Wolfgang Strasser
Wolfgang Straßer (born August 10, 1941 in Metzingen ; † January 24, 2015 in Tübingen ) was a German computer scientist . In his dissertation in 1974, he first described the process that Edwin Catmull later named Z-Buffer . He also made significant contributions in the areas of anti-aliasing processes and free-form modeling of curves and surfaces.
Wolfgang Straßer is one of the founders of computer graphics as an academic research field in German-speaking countries. In the 1980s and 1990s, he published early standard works in German on the subject of graphic data processing together with José Luis Encarnação and later Reinhard Klein as well.
Life
Wolfgang Straßer studied communications engineering at the TU Berlin , where he received his doctorate in 1974 as a student of Wolfgang Giloi . Before working as a C3 professor at TU Darmstadt , he was head of the image group at the Heinrich Hertz Institute in Berlin. In 1986 he was appointed full professor at the Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen , where, together with Rüdiger Loos, he set up the inter-faculty Wilhelm Schickard Institute for Computer Science (WSI), which was to become the core of the Faculty for Computer Science founded in 1990. Later on, more than 20 scientific employees were regularly active in his work area Graphic-Interactive Systems (GRIS). He also laid the foundation stone for the Eurographics / SIGGRAPH workshops on graphics hardware in 1986. In order to promote the exchange between research and industry, he founded the Steinbeis Transfer Center (G + B) in Tübingen.
Wolfgang Straßer retired in 2009 and died at the end of January 2015. He left behind his wife and four children.
Honors
The Technical University of Darmstadt awarded him an honorary doctorate for his scientific contributions in 2000.
In 2009 the European Association for Computer Graphics (Eurographics) awarded him an Honorary Fellowship for his life's work .
Scientific legacy
As a doctoral supervisor, Wolfgang Straßer supervised more than 40 doctorates and a large number of habilitations.
Many doctorates and habilitation graduates emerged from the Strasser School, who in turn became influential computer graphic artists in German-speaking countries and internationally. Professors Hans-Peter Seidel ( MPI Informatik Saarbrücken ), Reinhard Klein ( University of Bonn ), Stefan Gumhold ( Technical University of Dresden ), Andreas Schilling ( University of Tübingen ), Andreas Weber ( University of Bonn ), Thomas Vetter ( University of Basel ), Dirk Bartz † (most recently University of Leipzig ), Douglas Cunningham ( BTU Cottbus ), Michael Wand ( University of Mainz ), Johannes Hirche ( Technical University of Luleå ), Markus Wacker ( HTW Dresden ), Philipp Jenke ( HAW Hamburg ), Bernhard Eberhardt ( HdM Stuttgart ) and Bernhard Thomaszewski ( Université de Montréal ) among the graduates of the Tübingen GRIS.
Further doctoral and diploma students supervised by Wolfgang Straßer are successfully active in research and development in the computer graphics industry. a. at NVIDIA , Disney Research , Double Negative , PYTHA Lab, Autodesk and Google .
Social Commitment
Wolfgang Straßer was one of the few Tübingen professors who, for ethical and scientific reasons, spoke out publicly against the use of monkeys in Tübingen brain research.
Web links
- Literature by and about Wolfgang Straßer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Works by and about Wolfgang Straßer in the German Digital Library
- Homepage of the WSI / GRIS
literature
- ↑ Wolfgang Straßer: Fast curve and surface display on graphic display devices . Dissertation, TU Berlin, submitted on April 26, 1974
- ↑ José Luis Encarnacão, Wolfgang Straßer: Computer Graphics: device technology, programming and application of graphic systems . Munich: Oldenbourg, 3rd edition, 1988
- ↑ José Luis Encarnacão, Wolfgang Straßer, Reinhard Klein: Graphische Datenverarbeitung , 2 volumes. Munich: Oldenbourg, 1996
- ↑ Eurographics: European Association for Computer Graphics: Wolfgang Strasser: Eurographics Honorary Fellowship . ( Memento of January 29, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Retrieved January 30, 2015.
- ^ Letter to the editor from Wolfgang Straßer in the Schwäbisches Tagblatt dated April 18, 2009 . Retrieved November 29, 2015.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straßer, Wolfgang |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German computer scientist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 10, 1941 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Metzingen |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 24, 2015 |
| Place of death | Tübingen |