Norbert Fuhr

Norbert Fuhr ( born 1956 in Katzenelenbogen ) is a German computer scientist and since 2002 Professor of Practical computer science in the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Duisburg -Essen. He heads the Department of Information Systems, with its main focus lies in the area of ​​information retrieval.

Life

Fuhr studied 1975-1980 Data Engineering ( Technical computer science ) in the Department of Electrical Engineering at the Technical University of Darmstadt, he. Having the degree Dipl.- Ing completed. In 1986 he received his doctorate in computer science in the Department of Gerhard Lustig same University Dr.- Ing. with the work " Probabilistic Indexing and Retrieval".

He worked from 1980-1987 as a researcher and as a university assistant in 1987-1991 department of computer science at the TU Darmstadt. In 1991 he was appointed professor in the department of computer science at the TU Dortmund. Since 2002 he is a professor at the University of Duisburg Duisburg -Essen.

Honors

Fuhr's dissertation was awarded the 1987 " Gerhard Pietsch Award" of the German Society for Documentation. In 2012 he received the Gerard Salton Award from the ACM SIGIR.