Christoph Meinel is a German computer scientist, born on 14 April 1954 in Meißen, and professor emeritus of Internet technologies. He studied mathematics and computer science at the Humboldt University of Berlin, took his doctorate there in 1981 and habilitated in 1988 with work on branching programs. After professorships at Paderborn and Trier and a period leading the Fraunhofer Institute for Telematics in Trier, he became institute director and chief executive of the Hasso Plattner Institute in Potsdam in 2004 and held that post until 2023. His work began in complexity theory and binary decision diagrams and moved to Internet technologies, IT security and online teaching, including the tele-TASK recordings and the openHPI learning platform. He was appointed to the New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame in 2019 and is a founding president of the German University of Digital Science.
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Christoph Meinel (born April 14, 1954 in Meißen, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus of Internet technologies.
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Christoph Meinel (born April 14, 1954 in Meißen, Germany) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus of Internet technologies.
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He later worked on Internet technologies, IT security as well as digital education
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In 2019, he was appointed to the New Internet IPv6 Hall of Fame.
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