Norbert Fuhr (born 1956) is a professor of computer science
and the leader of the Duisburg Information Engineering Group based at
the
University of Duisburg-Essen
The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...
, Germany.
Education
His first degree is in technical computer science, which he got from the
Department of Electrical Engineering and Information Technology of the
Technical University of Darmstadt
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in 1980, and in 1986 he received his PhD
(
Dr.-Ing) from the
Department of Computer Science of the same university on "Probabilistic
Indexing and Retrieval".
Profession
He held a PostDoc position in Darmstadt until
1991, when he was appointed Associate Professor in the Computer
Science Department of the
Technical University of Dortmund
TU Dortmund University (german: Technische Universität Dortmund) is a technical university in Dortmund, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany with over 35,000 students, and over 6,000 staff including 300 professors, offering around 80 Bachelor's an ...
. Since 2002, he is a full professor at the
University of Duisburg-Essen
The University of Duisburg-Essen (german: link=no, Universität Duisburg-Essen) is a public research university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. In the 2019 ''Times Higher Education World University Rankings'', the university was awarded ...
.
Honors and awards
Fuhr's dissertation was awarded the "Gerhard Pietsch Award" of the German Society
of Documentation in 1987. In 2012, he received the
Gerard Salton Award
The Gerard Salton Award is presented by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval (SIGIR) every three years to an individual who has made "significant, sustained and continuing contributions to r ...
.
References
External links
Norbert Fuhr - University of Duisburg-Essen
German computer scientists
1956 births
Living people
Academic staff of the University of Duisburg-Essen
Academic staff of the Technical University of Dortmund
Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni
Information retrieval researchers
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