Karl Steinbuch

Charles W. Stone Book ( born June 15, 1917 in Stuttgart- Cannstatt; † 4 June 2005 in Ettlingen ) was a German cybernetician communications engineer and information theorist.

Steinbuch is considered a " theorist of informed or wrong programmed society" ( Stefan Rieger 2003) and one of the pioneers of the German computer science, with its learning matrix as a pioneer of artificial neural networks, as well as co-founder of artificial intelligence and cybernetics. He coined the terms " computer science " and " cybernetic anthropology ".

Life

Karl Steinbuch received his doctorate from the Technical University of Stuttgart in 1944 in physics. He worked after the Second World War as a freelance physicist, joined in 1948 as a development engineer in Stuttgart company Standard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL ), where he led the development of the first European fully transistorized computer system (ER 56) and more than 70 information technology patents go back to him. He was Technical Director and Head of Corporate Research at SEL, before being appointed in 1958 as Professor and Director of the Institute at the Technical University of Karlsruhe (since 2009 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology ), where he was in 1980 director of the Institute for message processing and transmission until his retirement. His work in the field of adaptive machines are considered to be pioneers.

In an indictment to the address of the "Behind the World", which he borrowed from Friedrich Nietzsche, he tried in the late 1960s to influence the education policy of the federal policy. With colleagues like Jean Ziegler from Switzerland, he formulated the expected education crisis and the looming civil society lobby. The English social history describing Eric J. Hobsbawm " Age of Empire " written in his life's work, a theoretical model for this purpose. The policy with the positively oriented admonishing voices of the new generation ( such as John Naisbitt with "Megatrends Computer" ) installed new ways of thinking.

In the debate of the 1970s about the consequences of technological progress, he turned into his nonfiction against the emerging ecological orientation and against the public television because of its allegedly dangerous information policy. A private cable television should be a countermeasure. He called for setting up a "Technical Court ," whose task should be to speak of research and application restrictions. Meanwhile, judges should be staffed by experts.

Coining the term computer science goes back to stone book, the first in a publication (1957 ) used it on a data processing system for the mail-order source.

He was a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (Halle / Saale) and the European Academy for the Environment.

2004 Stone learned book by naming a scholarship after him a tribute. With the Karl- Steinbuch scholarship, MFG Baden-Württemberg foundation promotes IT and media projects. 10 to 20 scholarships are awarded to highly qualified students per year, which realize innovative projects in the field of IT and media issues outside of their studies. Since 2011, the MFG Foundation also the Karl- Steinbuch research program performs, under which research on ICT and creative industry in Baden- Württemberg universities of applied sciences as well as at the Duale Hochschule Baden- Württemberg be encouraged.

The data center was founded in 2009 Karlsruhe Institute of Technology was named after him, Steinbuch Centre for Computing.

Works

Honors and Awards

  • Member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina (1967 )
  • Wilhelm Bölsche Gold Medal (1969 )
  • German Nonfiction Book of Osnabrück (1972 ) for " people, technology, future"
  • Gold Medal of the XXI. International Congress of Aviation and Space Medicine
  • Konrad -Adenauer Prize of Germany Foundation for Science (1975 )
  • Jakob Fugger Medal of the Association of Bavarian Newspaper Publishers ( 1979)
  • Medal of Merit of the State of Baden -Württemberg ( 1982)

Quotes

  • " The human brain is not designed to hold rational processes, but to effect the survival of an organism. "
  • "Before the social needs it behaves [ Behind the World] as a doctor who whines with the sick, but does not care about the causes of their illnesses. It fiddles with the symptoms manifest abuses and great by philanthropic words of a good conscience. "
  • " In technical systems, optimal interaction between sources and receivers matched results: In the social sphere but this consideration leads to the human right unworthy idea would be optimal behavior of the well-oiled wheel in the movement. "
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