Friedemann Mattern

Friedemann Mattern ( born July 28, 1955 in Freiburg im Breisgau ) is a German computer scientist.

After studying computer science with a minor in Communication Studies at the University of Bonn (1975-1982) was Mattern research associate at the Collaborative Research Centre " VLSI Design and Concurrency " at the Department of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern. He received his doctorate with a dissertation on " distributed algorithms " 1989. In 1991 he became a professor at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken; In 1994 he moved to the Technische Universität Darmstadt, where he founded the graduate program "Infrastructure for Electronic Commerce".

In 1999 he accepted an appointment at the ETH Zurich and began to build up a research group for ubiquitous computing. Since 2002 he is a founding director of the Institute for Pervasive Computing. He currently leads the Subject " Distributed Systems " at the ETH Zurich. Since 2010 he has also been head of the computer science departments of the ETH. In addition, Mattern is co-founder of the common M-Lab Centre of Excellence at the ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen.

Memberships

• German Academy of Sciences ( Leopoldina )
• German Academies of Science and Engineering ( acatech)
• Heidelberg Academy of Sciences

Publications

• " Algorithms for Distributed Termination Detection"
• "Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems "
• " Detecting Causal Relationships in Distributed Computations: In Search of the Holy Grail ";
• "Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing"
• "From the disappearance of the computer - The vision of ubiquitous computing "
• As editor along with Elgar Fleisch: The Internet of Things. Ubiquitous computing and RFID in practice. Visions, technologies, applications, instructions for action. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York 2005, 378 (VIII ) pp., ISBN 3-540-24003-9