Ernst Rothauser
Ernst Rothauser in 2014
Born(1931-07-07)7 July 1931
Vienna, Austria
Died4 August 2015(2015-08-04) (aged 84)
Reichenburg, Swiss
Known forVocoder
Scientific career
FieldsComputer Scientist
InstitutionsVienna University of Technology, IBM Zurich Research Laboratory

Ernst Rothauser (7 July 1931 – 4 August 2015)[1][2] was an Austrian computer scientist. As member of Heinz Zemanek's "Mailüfterl-Team", he worked on the country's first transistor computer. After finishing his dissertation he was hired by IBM Zurich Research Laboratory, retiring in 1995.[3][4]

Career

Team Mailüfterl

Rothauser worked on the Mailüfterl with Zemanek and a team of students.[5][better source needed] In 1960, he finished his dissertation about the Vocoder at TU Wien.[6] It was first used in the Siemens studio for electronic music, before being used in popular music in the 1970s.

Rothauser owned several patents patented by the IBM Research Laboratory Zurich, including one for a network switches.[7]

Work

Projects

Patents

Publications

References

  1. ^ "Death notice Dr. Ernst Rothauser". Archived from the original on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
  2. ^ "Todesanzeigenportal.ch". www.todesanzeigenportal.ch.
  3. ^ "OCG-Journal 2015" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-09-28. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
  4. ^ O. Univ.-Prof. Dr. Heinz Zemanek: 60 Jahre Vorlesungen an der TU Wien Archived 2016-03-05 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 28 September 2015.
  5. ^ computingheritage (1 October 2013). "Mailüfterl: an Austrian star of European computing" – via YouTube.
  6. ^ Verbundkatalog: A pulse method for voice transmission according to the vocoder principle. Dissertation 1960.
  7. ^ "Flow control mechanism for block switching nodes".[permanent dead link]
  8. ^ "Efficient Structures for distributed ComputingIBM Project Report – 1990-1995" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2016-03-05. Retrieved 2015-09-28.
  9. ^ "Anordnung zur Veraenderung des Grundtones, der Sprechgeschwindigkeit und der Klangfarbe von nach dem Vocoderprinzip analysierten Sprachsignalen Arrangement for the alteration of the fundamental tone, speech rate and tone of voice signals analyzed by the Vocoderprinzip".
  10. ^ "Device for excitation controlled smoothing of the spectrum-channel signals of a vocoder".
  11. ^ "Method and apparatus for controlling access to a communication network – Patent # 4583088 – PatentGenius". www.patentgenius.com. Archived from the original on 2018-01-04. Retrieved 2010-11-11.
  12. ^ "Verfahren und Anordnung zur Nachrichtenuebertragung nach dem Vocoderprinzip".
  13. ^ Rothauser, E. H. (1 November 1966). "The Integrated Vocoder and Its Application in Computer Systems". IBM J. Res. Dev. 10 (6): 455–461. doi:10.1147/rd.106.0455.
  14. ^ "dblp: Ernst H. Rothauser". dblp.uni-trier.de.
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