Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes

The Central Institute for Cybernetics and Information Processes (ZKI) was an institute established in 1968 with headquarters in Berlin with the aim of researching and promoting automation / control and computing technology / IT in the GDR. In 1970 it was assigned to the Berlin Academy of Sciences (DAW).

It was originally founded in the 1950s at the Technical University of Dresden : Heinrich Kindler , later Karl Reinisch , Heinz Töpfer , Siegfried Pilz , Hans-Joachim Zander , Georg Bretthauer and others. B. the development of the control system DRELOBA as well as the universal program system for the computer-aided design of digital controls RENDIS.

Horst Völz was appointed founding director of the Central Institute on March 18, 1969. He was followed by Volker Kempe , who held this position from 1977 to 1990.

The cybernetics department headed by Friedhart Klix and the establishment of the psychology department were also significant for the development of psychology in the GDR and were intended as a preliminary stage for a "Central Institute for Psychology" to be established by the AdW.

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Heinz-Elmar Tenorth: History of the University of Unter den Linden 1810-2010: Practice of their disciplines. Volume 6: Self-Assertion of a Vision Sven Ebisch, Mitchell G. Ash: Psychology at the Humboldt University. de Gruyter 2010

Individual evidence

↑ Wolfgang Coy , Peter Schirmbacher (Ed.): Computer science in the GDR. , Humboldt University, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86004-253-3 . P. 156
^ Heinz Töpfer , Werner Kriesel : Functional units of automation technology - electric, pneumatic, hydraulic. Verlag Technik, Berlin and VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977, 5th edition 1988, ISBN 3-341-00290-1 , pp. 445-454.

↑ Hans-Joachim Zander : Control of event-discrete processes. New methods for process description and design of control algorithms. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01381-3 , p. 23.

^ Ära Klix (1962-1990) history of the Humboldt University

[1] Wolfgang Coy , Peter Schirmbacher (Ed.): Computer science in the GDR. , Humboldt University, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-86004-253-3 . P. 156

[2] Heinz Töpfer , Werner Kriesel : Functional units of automation technology - electric, pneumatic, hydraulic. Verlag Technik, Berlin and VDI-Verlag, Düsseldorf 1977, 5th edition 1988, ISBN 3-341-00290-1 , pp. 445-454.

[3] Hans-Joachim Zander : Control of event-discrete processes. New methods for process description and design of control algorithms. Springer Vieweg, Wiesbaden 2015, ISBN 978-3-658-01381-3 , p. 23.

[4] Ära Klix (1962-1990) history of the Humboldt University