Günter Hotz

Günter Hotz ( born November 16, 1931 in Rommelshausen ) is a pioneer of the German computer science. He wrote, among other standard works on formal languages, circuit theory and complexity theory.

Biography

Hotz, in 1952, graduated from high school at the Real Gymnasium in Friedberg ( Hessen). He studied mathematics and physics in Frankfurt and Göttingen. In 1956, he graduated with a diploma in mathematics. In 1958 he received his doctorate with Kurt Reidemeister with the theme " More than two- node representations ". 1958-1962 he worked as a development engineer at Telefunken. In 1962 he was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship from the Fritz Thyssen Foundation. He was invited to the Institute of Applied Mathematics, University of the Saarland, where he habilitated in 1965. After a brief teaching career in Tübingen, he was then in 1969 a full professor of computer science at the University of Saarland in Saarbrücken. Although he received calls to other universities, he remained at this chair until his retirement in 2000. Saarbrücken students have rewarded this several times with torchlight.

Hotz had a major role in the establishment of the subject of computer science as an independent science between mathematics and electrical engineering. He was a founding member and first president of the Society for computer science and contributed to the establishment of two collaborative research centers of the German Research Foundation: " Electronic Language Research" and " VLSI Design Methods and Parallelism " at.

Since 2001, the awards " Friends of the Saarbrücken computer science " Every year the Günter Hotz Medal to the three most successful computer science graduates.

Günter Hotz has been married since 1958 and has five daughters and eleven grandchildren. He lives in St. Ingbert since 1972.

Honors

  • Member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz (since 1985)
  • " Foreign Member of the Academy of Sciences of the GDR " (First Member of the Federal Republic of Germany (1986 to 1992))
  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize (1987 )
  • Saarländischer Order of Merit (1986 )
  • Great Federal Cross of Merit (1998)
  • Konrad -Zuse- Medal for services to the computer science (1999)
  • Honorary Member of the Society for computer science

Honorary doctorates from the universities

  • University of Frankfurt
  • TH Darmstadt
  • State University of Tbilisi
  • University of Paderborn

Honorary Professorship

  • Institute for Computer Science of the Academia Sinica
  • Beihang University Beijing

Publications (excerpt)

  • Automata Theory and Formal Languages ​​(1969 /70, and several revisions )
  • Homomorphisms and reductions of linear languages ​​( 1970)
  • Computer science: computer systems, Teubner Study Book (1972 )
  • Circuit Theory, De Gruyter (1974 )
  • Complexity as a criterion in the theory (1988 )
  • Algorithms, Languages ​​and Complexity ( 1990)
  • Introduction to computer science, manuals and monographs in computer science, B. G. Teubner (1990 )
  • Algorithmic Information Theory (1997)
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