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Curriculum Vitae: Study of geodesy at University of Bonn and Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. Diploma in Engineering (Dipl. Ing.) in 1957. Joined IBM Germany as application programmer in same year in Sindelfingen, Germany. Was data-center manager (IBM 650, IBM 7070) in Duesseldorf, Germany (1959-1962). Afterwards as system software developer at the IBM laboratories in La Gaude, France, and Poughkeepsie, N.Y. Since 1965 software development manager at the IBM laboratory in Boeblingen, Germany. Responsible for compiler, operating system, and data base system developments. Also experience in system performance evaluation and software tools development. Obtained Ph.D. in computer science (1975) and title of honorary professor (1986), both from the University of Stuttgart, Germany. Achieved positions of Senior Technical Staff Member and member of IBM Academy of Technology. Retired from IBM in 1992, after 35 years of service. Held position of professor of computer science at the Technical University of Munich from 1993 to 1997. Lead joint research project on digital libraries, called MeDoc, involving 30 German universities and colleges and 14 publishers. Fellow of Gesellschaft für Informatik (German Informatics Society), senior member of IEEE, and founding chairman of the German chapter of the ACM. Author of nine books and over 40 papers, mainly in software engineering. Editor-in-chief of "Informatik - Forschung und Entwicklung", a German research journal in computer science from 1986 - 1999. Spending most of his time now on his hobbies, e.g. traveling and digging out stories from two thousand years of local history.
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