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Manfred Broy

Also Known As Manfred H. B. Broy · Manfred Hans Bertold Broy
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Manfred Broy (born 10 August 1949, in Landsberg am Lech) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at the Technical University of Munich. He earned his PhD in informatics there in 1980 on the transformation of programs running in parallel, and in 1983 became founding dean of the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Passau. In 1989 he returned to the Technical University of Munich to succeed Friedrich L. Bauer as professor of computer science, later becoming founding dean of its own Department of Computer Science in 1992. His research on the formal modeling, specification and architecture of complex software-intensive systems produced more than 350 publications, and he received Germany's Leibniz Prize from the German Research Foundation in 1994.

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Birth Year
1949 1
Birth Date
1949-08-10 1
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1. Manfred Broy (Wikidata)
  • Wikidata alias: Manfred H. B. Broy
    Manfred H. B. Broy
  • Wikidata P166: Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany.
  • Wikidata P166: Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Bavarian Maximilian Order for Science and Art.
  • Wikidata P166: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize.
  • Wikidata P166: Konrad Zuse Medal
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Konrad Zuse Medal.
  • Wikidata P166: Honorary doctor of the University of Passau
    Wikidata P166 (award received): Honorary doctor of the University of Passau.
  • Wikidata alias: Manfred Hans Bertold Broy
    Manfred Hans Bertold Broy
  • P569 (date of birth): year 1949
    1949
  • P569 (date of birth): 1949-08-10
    1949-08-10
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