Friedrich L. Bauer

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Friedrich Ludwig Bauer
Bundesverdienstkreuz 1st Class,
IEEE Computer Pioneer Award (1988)
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
Applied mathematics
InstitutionsUniversity of Mainz
Technical University of Munich
Theses
  • Group-theoretic investigations of the theory of spin wave equations  (1952)
  • On quadratically convergent iteration methods for solving algebraic equations and eigenvalue problems  (1954)
Fritz Bopp, Georg Aumann
Doctoral studentsManfred Broy, David Gries, Josef Stoer, Peter Wynn, Christoph Zenger

Friedrich Ludwig "Fritz" Bauer (10 June 1924 – 26 March 2015) was a German pioneer of computer science and professor at the Technical University of Munich.

Life

Bauer earned his

Fritz Bopp for his thesis Gruppentheoretische Untersuchungen zur Theorie der Spinwellengleichungen ("Group-theoretic investigations of the theory of spin wave equations") in 1952. He completed his habilitation thesis Über quadratisch konvergente Iterationsverfahren zur Lösung von algebraischen Gleichungen und Eigenwertproblemen ("On quadratically convergent iteration methods for solving algebraic equations and eigenvalue problems") in 1954 at the Technical University of Munich. After teaching as a privatdozent at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich from 1954 to 1958, he became extraordinary professor for applied mathematics at the University of Mainz. Since 1963, he worked as a professor of mathematics and (since 1972) computer science at the Technical University of Munich. He retired in 1989.[1]

Work

Friedrich L. Bauer at the editors' meeting of Informatik Spektrum on 29 May 1995.

Bauer's early work involved constructing computing machinery (e.g. the logical relay computer STANISLAUS from 1951–1955

stack method
of expression evaluation.

Bauer was a member of the committees that developed the imperative computer programming languages ALGOL 58,[3] and its successor ALGOL 60,[4] important predecessors to all modern imperative programming languages. For ALGOL 58, Bauer was with the German Gesellschaft für Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik (GAMM, Society of Applied Mathematics and Mechanics) which worked with the American Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[3] For ALGOL 60, Bauer was with the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) IFIP Working Group 2.1 on Algorithmic Languages and Calculi,[4] which specified, maintains, and supports the languages ALGOL 60 and ALGOL 68.[5]

Bauer was an influential figure in establishing

Department of Informatics, though Bauer had retired from his chair in 1989.[6]

In 1968, he coined the term software engineering which has been in widespread use since, and has become a discipline in computer science.

His scientific contributions spread from

cryptology
, Decrypted secrets, now in its fourth edition.

He was the doctoral advisor of 39 students, including Rudolf Berghammer, Manfred Broy, David Gries, Manfred Paul, Gerhard Seegmüller, Josef Stoer, Peter Wynn, and Christoph Zenger.

Friedrich Bauer was one of the 19 founding members of the

Informatik Spektrum from its founding in 1978, and held that position until his death.[8]

Friedrich Bauer was married to Hildegard Bauer-Vogg. He was the father of three sons and two daughters.

Definition of software engineering

Bauer was a colleague of the German Representative the NATO Science Committee. In 1967, NATO had been discussing 'The Software Crisis' and Bauer had suggested the term 'Software Engineering' as a way to conceive of both the problem and the solution.[9]

In 1972, Bauer published the following definition of software engineering:

"Establishment and use of sound engineering principles to economically obtain software that is reliable and works on real machines efficiently."[10]

Legacy

Since 1992, the Technical University of Munich has awarded the Friedrich L. Bauer Prize [de] in computer science.

In 2014, the Technical University of Munich renamed their largest

Department of Informatics
building after him.

Awards

Honorary doctorates

Publications

  • S2CID 16646147
    .    , a very influential paper on compilers
  • LCCN 64-10740
    . ark:/13960/t6qz35p37. Retrieved 2022-10-23.
  • Bauer, Friedrich Ludwig (1987). The Munich Project CIP: Volume II: The Programme Transformation System CIP-S (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Springer.
    ISBN 978-3-5401-8779-0
    .
  • Bauer, Friedrich Ludwig;
    ISBN 3-540-52974-8
    .
  • Bauer, Friedrich Ludwig (2006).
    ISBN 978-3-5402-4502-5
    .

References

  1. ^ "Verzeichnis der Professorinnen und Professoren der Universität Mainz". Gutenberg Biographics (in German). Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz. Retrieved 2017-02-16.
  2. ISBN 978-3-642-07653-4
    .
  3. ^
    Perlis, Alan Jay (1981). "Talk on Computing in the Fifties". ACM National Conference. Nashville, Tennessee. Los Alamito, California, 1995: (Transcript in J. A. N. Lee (ed.), Computer Pioneers, IEEE Computer Society Press. pp. 545–556.{{cite conference}}: CS1 maint: location (link
    )
  4. ^ a b Jeuring, Johan; Meertens, Lambert; Guttmann, Walter (2016-08-17). "Profile of IFIP Working Group 2.1". Foswiki. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  5. ^ Swierstra, S. Doaitse; Gibbons, Jeremy; Meertens, Lambert (2011-03-02). "ScopeEtc: IFIP21: Foswiki". Foswiki. Retrieved 2020-09-07.
  6. ^ "History". TUM Department of Informatics. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  7. ^ Fritz Krückeberg [de]: Die Geschichte der GI, p. 14; 2nd edition, November 2001, Gesellschaft für Informatik. [1], retrieved 9 February 2021
  8. ^ Informatik Spektrum Volume 38, Issue 2, April 2015: Imprint Page A4
  9. ISBN 0-262-13393-8
    .
  10. ^ Bauer, Friedrich Ludwig (1972). "Software Engineering". Information Processing. p. 71.
  11. ^ Editor, ÖGV. (2015). Wilhelm Exner Medal. Austrian Trade Association. ÖGV. Austria.

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