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History

When I finished school in the mid 70s I said "I want to build computers". OK, let's study Computer Engineering!

It took me a while to digest that I was quite ahead of time then.

Later on, my diploma thesis dealt with a robot teach-in system: mechanics, hardware and software. An implementation just with a single degree-of-freedom, but it covered a broad range of skills and I was on the right track.

Peripherals for the IBM 370 family followed, superceded by PC peripherals. Finally, I came very close to my initial plan with developing custom computing machines for Physics experiments at CERN and DESY. For many years I enjoyed to be creative with technical topics in the inspiring environment of science and research.

Teaching was a natural extension to my development activities and I had the opportunity to create and teach lectures on Embedded Systems and FPGAs at Heidelberg University.

Since a few years I focus more on human related use of digital technologies, besides education in areas like participation, open data and art. I do seminars on OpenData at KIT since 2020.

From a creative point of view art and technology have a lot in common. Fortunately I had the chance to join the team at the ZKM, where art and code meet.

and , for example by doing workshops and tours. I also contributed to the exhibitions Critical Zones and Biomedia.

Digital tools have a great potential to improve political participation of citizens and this has been recognized to some extent by government reprentatives, for example by putting forward open government partnership initiatives. In this context I'm involved in various projects at the OK Lab Karlsruhe.

Publications

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PhD Thesis

The ATLAS ROBIN – A High-Performance Data-Acquisition Module

Talks, Workshops and Exhibitions

Skills

Wherever possible I use open source tools to get things done.

Repositories

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