Robert Piloty (June 6, 1924 to January 21, 2013) was a German computer scientist and former Professor of Communications Processing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering of the Technische Universitat Darmstadt. He pioneered program-controlled computer systems, initiating development of the PERM (Program-Controlled Electronic Calculator Munich) starting in 1949, created hardware description languages for engineering education, founded the CONLAN Working Group in 1975 to standardize computer design languages internationally, was a founding member of the Gesellschaft fur Informatik, and served as vice president of the International Federation for Information Processing. He shared the Konrad Zuse Medal in 1989.
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1. Wikidata: Robert Piloty
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