Juhani Karhumäki / Hermann Maurer / Gheorghe Paun / Grzegorz Rozenberg (eds.)

Broschiertes Buch

Theory Is Forever

Essays Dedicated to Arto Salomaa on the Occasion of His 70th Birthday

Herausgegeben: Karhumäki, Juhani; Maurer, Hermann; Paun, Gheorghe; Rozenberg, Grzegorz

Beschreibung

This Festschrift celebrates the 70th birthday of Arto Kustaa Salomaa (born in Turku, Finland on June 6, 1934), one of the most in?uential researchers in theoretical computer science. Most ofhis researchconcernstheory he is one of the founding fathers of formal language and automata theory, but he has also made important contributions to cryptography and natural computing. His approach to research in theoretical computer science is exemplary and inspirational for his students, collaborators, andthereadersofhispapersandbooks. Forhim,theroleoftheory(incomputer science) is to discover general rules of information processing that hold within computer science and in the world around us. One should not waste time on research concerning passing artifacts (or fashionable topics of the moment) in computer science theory should be permanently predictive, insightful, and inspiring. That s why we chose the title Theory is Forever . The main source of his in?uence on theoretical computer science is his publi- tions. Arto is a born writer his papers and books are always most elegant. He has a unique gift for identifying the real essence of a research problem, and then presenting it in an incisive and eloquent way. He can write about a very involved formal topic and yet avoid a (much too common) overformalization. Many of his writings are genuine jewels and belong to the classics of theoreticalcomputer science. Theyhaveinspiredgenerationsofstudentsandresearchers. Indeed,even computers as well as computer science have learned a lot from Arto s publi- tions this is nicely illustrated by DADARA on the cover of this volume.

Autor

Hermann Maurer studierte Mathematik und Physik in Österreich, Informatik in Kanada. Er war einige Jahre in der Industrie tätig, aber ist nun seit mehr als 30 Jahren Universitätsprofessor für Informatik an Universitäten in Kanada, USA, Deutschland, Brasilien, Australien, Neuseeland und vor allem an der Technischen Universität Graz in Österreich. Er ist mit zahlreichen wissenschaftlichen Büchern und über 500 wissenschaftlichen Publikationen in seinem Bereich der Informatik aktiv tätig, ist aber auch seit vielen Jahren schriftstellerisch aktiv, oft unter einem Pseudonym.

Produktdetails

• Lecture Notes in Computer Science 3113
• Verlag: Springer / Springer Berlin Heidelberg / Springer, Berlin
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 11019213, 978-3-540-22393-1
• 2004
• Seitenzahl: 300
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. Juni 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 155mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 446g
• ISBN-13: 9783540223931
• ISBN-10: 3540223932
• Artikelnr.: 12989714