Jochen Liedtke

Jochen Liedtke ( born May 26, 1953 † 10 June 2001) was a German computer scientist who made ​​important studies for micro- kernel architecture.

Life

Liedtke graduated in 1978 at the University of Bielefeld from a study of mathematics. His thesis dealt with a translator for the time used in the classroom programming language ELAN. In subsequent work on an ELAN environment for the Z80 he could build on it and created a runtime environment from which the designed for 8 -bit computer L2 ( " EUMEL " ) Liedtke's first, complete microkernel system resulted (L1 was already by him conceived as a student interpreter for a subset of Algol 60).

From 1984, Liedtke worked at GMD, where he could improve L2 in the following years and ported to 16 -bit machine, the L3 system, predecessor of the well-known, developed by him and others from the mid-90s L4 was family. Jochen Liedtke received his doctorate in 1996 at the Technical University of Berlin with a thesis on guarded page tables and moved to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center (IBM ), where he dealt primarily with the Association of microkernel ideas and Linux just a little later. Since 1999 he was Professor of Systems Architecture at the University of Karlsruhe.