Wolfgang Händler
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Wolfgang Händler (11 December 1920 in
Potsdam Potsdam () is the capital and largest city of the Germany, German States of Germany, state of Brandenburg. It is part of the Berlin/Brandenburg Metropolitan Region. Potsdam sits on the Havel, River Havel, a tributary of the Elbe, downstream of B ...
– 19 February 1998) was a German
mathematician A mathematician is someone who uses an extensive knowledge of mathematics in their work, typically to solve mathematical problems. Mathematicians are concerned with numbers, data, quantity, mathematical structure, structure, space, Mathematica ...
, pioneering computer scientist and professor at
Leibniz University Hannover Leibniz University Hannover (), also known as the University of Hannover, is a public university, public research university located in Hanover, Germany. Founded on 2 May 1831 as Higher Vocational School, the university has undergone six period ...
(''Lehrstuhl für elektronische Rechenanlagen'') and
University of Erlangen–Nuremberg The Friedrich-Alexander University of Erlangen-Nuremberg (, FAU) is a Public University, public research university in the cities of Erlangen and Nuremberg in Bavaria, Germany. The name Friedrich-Alexander is derived from the university's first ...
(''Institut für Mathematische Maschinen und Datenverarbeitung'') known for his work on automata theory,
parallel computing Parallel computing is a type of computing, computation in which many calculations or Process (computing), processes are carried out simultaneously. Large problems can often be divided into smaller ones, which can then be solved at the same time. ...
, artificial intelligence, man-machine interfaces and computer graphics. * '' Händler diagram'' (aka ''Mn graph'', , , , , ') (1958)


See also

* Händler's minimization graph *
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BESK BESK (''Binär Elektronisk SekvensKalkylator'', Swedish language, Swedish for "Binary Electronic Sequence Calculator") was Sweden's first electronic computer, using vacuum tubes instead of relays. It was developed by ''Matematikmaskinnämnden ...
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SUPRENUM SUPRENUM (, ) was a German research project to develop a parallel computer from 1985 through 1990. It was a major effort which was aimed at developing a national expertise in massively parallel processing both at hardware and at software level. A ...
(Supercomputer for Numerical Application) * (ECS) ** Feng's classification **
Flynn's taxonomy Flynn's taxonomy is a classification of computer architectures, proposed by Michael J. Flynn in 1966 and extended in 1972. The classification system has stuck, and it has been used as a tool in the design of modern processors and their functionalit ...
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Alwin Walther Alwin Oswald Walther (6May 18984January 1967) was a German mathematician, engineer and professor. He is one of the pioneers of mechanical computing technology in Germany. Life Alwin Walther was born in May 1898 in Reick near Dresden. From 191 ...
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Arthur Burks Arthur Walter Burks (October 13, 1915 – May 14, 2008) was an American mathematician who worked in the 1940s as a senior engineer on the project that contributed to the design of the ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. ...
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Konrad Zuse Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse (; ; 22 June 1910 – 18 December 1995) was a German civil engineer, List of pioneers in computer science, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programm ...


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External links

* http://www.universitaetssammlungen.de/person/670 *
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in the database
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Handler, Wolfgang 1920 births 1998 deaths 20th-century German mathematicians German computer scientists Scientists from Potsdam Computer science educators Gdańsk University of Technology alumni University of Kiel alumni Technische Universität Darmstadt alumni Academic staff of Saarland University Academic staff of Leibniz University Hannover Academic staff of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg