Kurt Mehlhorn
| Kurt Mehlhorn | |
|---|---|
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| Born |
29 August 1949[1] Ingolstadt,[1] West Germany |
| Nationality | German |
| Fields | Computer science |
| Institutions | Universität des Saarlandes |
| Alma mater | Cornell University[1] |
| Doctoral advisor | Robert Lee Constable[2] |
| Doctoral students |
Helmut Alt Michael Kaufmann Hans-Peter Lenhof |
| Known for | LEDA |
| Notable awards |
Leibniz Prize Konrad Zuse Medal (1995) EATCS Award Paris Kanellakis Award (2010) |
Kurt Mehlhorn (born 29 August 1949) is a German theoretical computer scientist. He has been a vice president of the Max Planck Society and is director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science.
Education and career
Mehlhorn graduated in 1971 from the Technical University of Munich, where he studied computer science and mathematics, and earned his Ph.D. in 1974 from Cornell University under the supervision of Robert Constable. Since 1975 he has been on the faculty of Saarland University in Saarbrücken, Germany, where he was chair of the computer science department from 1976 to 1978 and again from 1987 to 1989. Since 1990 has been the director of the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science, also in Saarbrücken. He has been on the editorial boards of ten journals, a trustee of the International Computer Science Institute in Berkeley, California, and a member of the board of governors of Jacobs University Bremen.
Awards and honors
He won the Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Prize in 1986, the Gay-Lussac-Humboldt-Prize in 1989, the Karl Heinz Beckurts Award in 1994, the Konrad Zuse Medal in 1995, the EATCS Award in 2010,[3] and the Paris Kanellakis Award in 2010. He was named a member of the Academia Europaea in 1995, Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery in 1999, a member of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences in 2001, a member of the German Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2004, a foreign member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2014, and a foreign member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2014.[4] He has received honorary doctorates from the Otto von Guericke University of Magdeburg in 2002 and the University of Waterloo in 2006.[1][2][5] He is the 2014 winner of the Erasmus Medal of the Academia Europaea.[6]
Research
Mehlhorn is the author of several books and over 250 scientific publications,.[7] which include fundamental contributions to Data structures, computational geometry, computer algebra, parallel computing, VLSI design, computational complexity, combinatorial optimization, and graph algorithms.[3]
Mehlhorn has been an important figure in the development of algorithm engineering and is one of the developers of LEDA, the Library of Efficient Data types and Algorithms.
Mehlhorn has played an important role in the establishment of several research centres for computer science in Germany. He was the driving force[3] behind the establishment of a Max Planck Institute for Computer Science in Germany, the Max Planck Institute for Computer Science (MPII). Mehlhorn is managing director of the institute and heads the department of algorithms and complexity. He also initiated [3] the research center for computer science at Dagstuhl and the European Symposium on Algorithms.
Books
- Mehlhorn, Kurt (1977), Effiziente Algorithmen, Stuttgart: Teubner. Revised and translated as Data Structures and Algorithms, Springer-Verlag, 1984.
- Mehlhorn, Kurt (1984), Data Structures and Algorithms II: Graph Algorithms and NP-completeness, Springer-Verlag.
- Mehlhorn, Kurt (1984), Data Structures and Algorithms III: Multidimensional Searching and Computational Geometry, Springer-Verlag.
- Loeckx, Jacques; Mehlhorn, Kurt; Wilhelm, Reinhard (1988), Foundations of Programming Languages, J. Wiley, ISBN 0-471-92139-4.
- Mehlhorn, Kurt; Näher, Stefan (1999), LEDA: A Platform for Combinatorial and Geometric Computing, Cambridge University Press, ISBN 978-0-521-56329-1.
- Mehlhorn, Kurt; Sanders, Peter (2008), Algorithms and Data Structures: The Basic Toolbox, Springer, ISBN 978-3-540-77977-3.
Selected publications
- Mehlhorn, Kurt; Schmidt, Erik M. (1982), "Las Vegas is better than determinism in VLSI and distributed computing", Proc. 14th ACM Symp. Theory of Computing (STOC), pp. 330–337, doi:10.1145/800070.802208.
- Mehlhorn, Kurt; Vishkin, Uzi (1984), "Randomized and deterministic simulations of PRAMs by parallel machines with restricted granularity of parallel memories", Acta Informatica, 21 (4): 339–374, doi:10.1007/BF00264615.
- Alt, Helmut; Mehlhorn, Kurt; Wagener, Hubert; Welzl, Emo (1988), "Congruence, similarity, and symmetries of geometric objects", Discrete and Computational Geometry, 3 (1): 237–256, doi:10.1007/BF02187910.
- Ahuja, Ravindra K.; Mehlhorn, Kurt; Orlin, James B.; Tarjan, Robert E. (1990), "Faster algorithms for the shortest path problem", Journal of the Association for Computing Machinery, 37 (2): 213–223, doi:10.1145/77600.77615.
- Dietzfelbinger, Martin; Karlin, Anna; Mehlhorn, Kurt; Meyer auf der Heide, Friedhelm; Rohnert, Hans; Tarjan, Robert E. (1994), "Dynamic perfect hashing: upper and lower bounds", SIAM Journal on Computing, 23 (4): 738–761, doi:10.1137/S0097539791194094.
References
- 1 2 3 4 Mehlhorn's CV.
- 1 2 Kurt Mehlhorn at the Mathematics Genealogy Project.
- 1 2 3 4 Bulletin of the EATCS, nr. 100, pp. 7–8.
- ↑ "National Academy of Sciences Elections", Mathematics People, Notices of the American Mathematical Society, 62 (7): 826, August 2015.
- ↑ ACM Fellow citation to Mehlhorn for "important contributions in complexity theory and in the design, analysis, and practice of combinatorial and geometric algorithms."
- ↑ 2014 Erasmus Medal awarded to Professor Dr. Kurt Mehlhorn MAE, Academia Europaea, retrieved 2014-06-21.
- ↑ Kurt Mehlhorn at DBLP Bibliography Server.