Ingo Wegener (December 4, 1950 in Bremen – November 26, 2008 in Bielefeld) was an influential German computer scientist working in the field of theoretical computer science.[1][2][3][4]

Education and career

Wegener was educated at the Bielefeld University. He earned a diploma in mathematics there in 1976, a doctorate in 1978, and a habilitation in 1981.[1] His doctoral dissertation, Boolesche Funktionen, deren monotone Komplexität fast quadratisch ist, was jointly supervised by Wolfgang Paul [de] and Rudolf Ahlswede.[5]

He was a computer science professor at Goethe University Frankfurt from 1980 until 1987, when he moved to the Technical University of Dortmund. He remained at Dortmund until his death.[1]

Contributions

Wegener's dissertation research concerned circuit complexity, and he was known for his research on Boolean functions and binary decision diagrams.[1][2] He wrote two books on related topics, The Complexity of Boolean Functions (Wiley, 1987, also called "the blue book")[6] and Branching Programs and Binary Decision Diagrams: Theory and Applications (SIAM Press, 2000).[7]

Beginning in the 1990s, his research interests shifted towards the theoretical analysis of metaheuristics and evolutionary computation.[1][2]

Awards and honors

Wegener was elected as a fellow of the German society for computer science, the Gesellschaft für Informatik, in 2004.[8] For his merits on teaching and research in the field of theoretical computer science, he earned in 2006 the Konrad Zuse Medal from the Gesellschaft für Informatik.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f In memoriam of Prof. Dr. Ingo Wegener, 1950—2008, European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
  2. ^ a b c Fortnow, Lance (December 9, 2008), "Ingo Wegener (1950-2008)", Computational Complexity
  3. ^ Jansen, Thomas; Schmidt, Melanie; Sudholt, Dirk; Witt, Carsten; Zarges, Christine (March 2009), "Ingo Wegener", In Memoriam, Evolutionary Computation, 17 (1): 1–2, doi:10.1162/evco.2009.17.1.1, S2CID 207686101
  4. ^ Doerr, Benjamin; Neumann, Frank (November 2009), "In Memoriam: Ingo Wegener", Algorithmica, 58 (3): 541–542, doi:10.1007/s00453-009-9372-6
  5. ^ Ingo Wegener at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ^ Review of The Complexity of Boolean Functions:
    • Hromkovič, Juraj (1989), Mathematical Reviews, MR 0905473((citation)): CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  7. ^ Reviews of Branching Programs and Binary Decision Diagrams:
  8. ^ GI-Fellow citation, retrieved 2012-03-09.
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