Hermann Maurer

Hermann Adolf Maurer, born in Vienna on 26 April 1941, is an Austrian computer scientist and Professor of Computer Science at the Graz University of Technology, who has supervised over 40 dissertations, written more than 20 books and over 600 scientific articles, and started or been involved with a number of companies. He studied mathematics at the University of Vienna and the University of Calgary from 1959, earned a doctorate in mathematics in 1965 under Edmund Hlawka, was a professor at Calgary from 1966 to 1971 and at Karlsruhe from 1971 to 1977, and has been at Graz since 1978. Among his important contributions is the development and promotion of remote interactive data terminals that could display graphics rather than only text, and he invented the MUPID system, some of whose ideas were used in the Bildschirmtext system. In the 1980s he worked to develop computer network equipment in Styria and is considered to have helped pave the way for European internet technology; he later founded and chaired the knowledge management company Hyperwave until its bankruptcy in 2005.