Manfred Broy
Manfred Broy in 2004.
Born (1949-08-10) 10 August 1949 (age 74)
CitizenshipGermany
EducationPh.D., 1980
Scientific career
FieldsComputer science
InstitutionsUniversity of Passau
Technical University of Munich
ThesisTransformation of parallel running programs (1980)
Doctoral advisorFriedrich L. Bauer
Websitewww.professoren.tum.de/en/broy-manfred

Manfred Broy (born 10 August 1949, Landsberg am Lech) is a German computer scientist, and an emeritus professor in the Department of Informatics at the Technical University of Munich, Garching, Germany.

Biography

Broy gained his Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) in 1980 at the chair of Friedrich L. Bauer on the subject of transformation of programs running in parallel (Transformation parallel ablaufender Programme).

In 1983, he founded the faculty of mathematics and computer science at the University of Passau, which dean he was until 1986. In 1989, he went to the Technical University of Munich (TUM),[1] where in 1992, he became the founding dean of the informatics faculty, which until then was an institute within the faculty of mathematics and informatics. Since then he has been teaching at the Technical University of Munich.

In 2004, he was elected as a fellow of the Gesellschaft für Informatik[2] and in 2007, he won the Konrad Zuse Medal.[3] He is also editor of the International Journal of Software and Informatics. Broy has been a director of the International Summer School Marktoberdorf.[4]

He retired on 31 March 2015.

Selected books

References

  1. ^ "CV Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. Manfred Hans Bertold Broy" (PDF). Vienna University of Technology (TU Wien) (in German). 2012. Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
  2. ^ GI-Fellow citation Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine, retrieved 9 March 2012.
  3. ^ Winter, Cornelia (16 August 2007), "Manfred Broy aus München erhält Konrad-Zuse-Medaille – Höchste Informatik-Auszeichnung wird in Bremen verliehen", Informationsdienst Wissenschaft (in German)
  4. ^ Marktoberdorf Summer School on Theoretical Foundations of Programming Methodology (1982). Broy, Manfred (ed.). Theoretical Foundations of Programming Methodology: Lecture Notes of an International Summer School, 1981. NATO Advanced Study Institutes Series. Vol. 91. Reidel. Retrieved 2 September 2015.