Friedrich Ludwig Bauer (born June 10, 1924 in Regensburg) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at Munich University of Technology. June 10 is the 161st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (162nd in leap years), with 204 days remaining. ... 1924 was a leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... Regensburg (English formerly Ratisbon, Latin Ratisbona) is a city (population 150,212 in 2004) in Bavaria, south-east Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers, at the northernmost bend in the Danube. ... Computer science (informally: CS or compsci) is, in its most general sense, the study of computation and information processing, both in hardware and in software. ... Emeritus is a title given to a retired professor, bishop or other professional. ... Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university, located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Weihenstephan out of Munich). ...

Life

Bauer studied mathematics and theoretical physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich. Since 1963, he worked as a professor for mathematics and (since 1972) computer science at Munich University of Technology. He retired in 1989. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations related to: Mathematics Look up Mathematics on Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... Since antiquity, people have tried to understand the behavior of matter: why unsupported objects drop to the ground, why different materials have different properties, and so forth. ... Main building at the Geschwister-Scholl-Platz With approximately 48,000 students, the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich (German: Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München or LMU) is the second largest university in Germany (surpassed only by the University of Cologne). ... For the 2005 Steven Spielberg film, see Munich (film). ... 1963 was a common year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year that started on a Saturday. ... Munich University of Technology, or Technical University of Munich (TUM) (German: Technische Universität München, TUM), is a major German university, located in Munich (and the towns of Garching and Weihenstephan out of Munich). ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

Bauer's early work involved the construction of computing machinery (e.g. the logical relay computer Stanislaus in 1951). In this context, he was the first to propose the widely used stack method of expression evaluation. Bauer also worked in the committee that developed the imperative computer programming language ALGOL 60, an important predecessor to all modern imperative programming languages. In 1968, Bauer coined the term Software Engineering which has been in widespread use since. It has been suggested that Stack-Based Memory Allocation be merged into this article or section. ... Imperative programming, as opposed to functional programming, is a sort of programming employing side-effect as central execution feature. ... A programming language or computer language is a standardized communication technique for expressing instructions to a computer. ... ALGOL (short for ALGOrithmic Language) is a programming language originally developed in the mid 1950s which became the de facto standard way to report algorithms in print for almost the next 30 years. ... 1968 (MCMLXVIII) was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Software engineering is the profession that creates and maintains software applications by applying technologies and practices from computer science, project management, engineering, application domains, and other fields. ...

Bauer was an influential figure in establishing computer science as an independent subject in German universities. Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Computer Science Open Directory Project: Computer Science Downloadable Science and Computer Science books Collection of Computer Science Bibliographies Belief that title science in computer science is inappropriate Category: Computer science ...

His scientific contributions spread from numerical analysis and fundamentals of interpretation and translation of programming languages, to his later works on systematics of program development, especially program transformation. He also wrote a well-respected book on cryptology, Decrypted secrets, now in its third edition. Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms for the problems of continuous mathematics (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). ... ÁInsert non-formatted text here ... Cryptography (from Greek kryptós, hidden, and gráphein, to write) is, traditionally, the study of means of converting information from its normal, comprehensible form into an incomprehensible format, rendering it unreadable without secret knowledge — the art of encryption. ...

Bauer received various honors and awards, among others the IEEE Computer Pioneer Award.

External links

• Photograph of F. L. Bauer (provided by Brian Randell)