Jürg Gutknecht

Jürg Gutknecht ( born January 3, 1949 in Bülach ) is a Swiss computer scientist. He developed along with Niklaus Wirth, the Oberon programming language and operating system and extended the Oberon Modula -Pascal language family to Active Oberon and Zonnon.

Life

Jürg Gutknecht is a professor at the department of computer science at ETH Zurich. As head of the department of computer science in 1995 he pioneered the first credit system along American lines a. From 2002 to 2014 he was a full professor and head of the Institute for Computer Systems at ETH.

From 1967 to 1970 Gutknecht worked in the real-time system programming with Swissair. From 1970 to 1974 he studied mathematics at the ETH Zurich and was also a student at IBM. In 1978 he received his doctorate with a dissertation on differentiable function rooms for Dr. Sc. Math After three years as a mathematics teacher at the college, he joined in 1981 in Heerbrugg research group Lilith / Modula by Prof. Niklaus Wirth one. In 1985, after a stay at the Research Laboratory Xerox PARC in California, he was appointed Assistant Professor at the ETH. Then he developed together with the Wirth Oberon programming language and operating system.

Jürg Gutknechts research focus is in the field of programming languages ​​, compilers and run-time systems, especially in the areas of object models and component technology. These include Zonnon the programming language and runtime platform Bluebottle.

Publications

• Niklaus Wirth, Jürg Gutknecht: Project Oberon. Addison -Wesley, 1993, ISBN 0-201-54428-8.