Johannes Schöning is a
computer scientist
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Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation, as opposed to the hardware side on which computer engineers mainly focus (al ...
best known for his research in
human-computer interaction,
geoinformatics and
mobile computing
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and was awarded with the
ACM Eugene L. Lawler Award for humanitarian contributions within
Computer Science and
Informatics
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in 2012. He is a
professor at the
University of Bremen in
Germany.
He owns a "
Lichtenberg-Professur" of the
Volkswagen Foundation.
References
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
German computer scientists
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