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He can look back upon a long and fulfilled career: Prof. Dr. Jürgen Nehmer, professor at the University of Kaiserslautern for many years and scientific advisor to the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE, was honored with a festive retirement ceremony held at the Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern on 13 July.
The event saw VIPs from politics and academia take a retrospective look at the life of the emeritus. The state of Rheinland-Pfalz was represented by the Minister for Education, Science, Youth and Culture, Doris Ahnen. Speaking for the University of Kaiserslautern, where Professor Nehmer had worked and taught since 1979, were the President of the University, Professor Helmut Schmidt, and the Dean of the Department of Computer Science, Professor Reinhard Gotzhein. Then, as the first holder of a university chair ever, Professor Nehmer received the senior professorship of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz from the hands of Minister Doris Ahnen and Professor Helmut Schmidt.
After a musical intermezzo, Professor Dorothea Wagner, incumbent Vice-President of the German Research Association DFG, praised her predecessor for his numerous meritorious services. Colleagues of Professor Nehmer during his scientific career, such as Professor Friedemann Mattern from ETH Zurich or Dr. Anastase Kimonyo from the Kigala Institute of Science Technology and Management (KIST) in Ruanda, gave interesting talks to enrich the event, which was held under the motto "Perspective".
The scientific talk was given by the renowned software expert Professor Manfred Broy from the Technical University of Munich. The group Chantal from Alzey provided the appropriate artistic atmosphere for the event with its "concertante music from nine centuries".
Jürgen Nehmer, born in 1942, studied electrical engineering in Karlsruhe, where he also earned his Ph.D., and then gained far-reaching practical experience in industry. He became a world-leading expert for the development of software-based systems with the highest safety requirements. The most important stations in Professor Nehmer's career include his membership in the German Scientific Advisory Board, his Vice-Presidency of the German Research Association, and his function as Technology Ambassador for the city of Kaiserslautern.
In 2004, Professor Jürgen Nehmer was honored for his services to research and teaching by being awarded the Service Medal of the state of Rheinland-Pfalz. He will continue to be closely connected to science, evidenced among other things by his activities as an advisor for Fraunhofer IESE. A few days ago, a room at the Fraunhofer Center in Kaiserslautern was named for him in order to commemorate this outstanding scientist.
The Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering IESE
Fraunhofer IESE in Kaiserslautern currently has about 200 employees who perform research in the areas of software development, software quality management, and software competence management. Together with its sister institute in the USA, Fraunhofer IESE offers processes, methods, and techniques for developing software-based systems according to engineering-style principles. In doing so, it follows an empirical approach: Through proven, innovative solutions, products based on software can be brought to the market with a measurably higher degree of efficiency.
The customers of Fraunhofer IESE come from domains where products are dominated by software: automotive and transportation systems, telecommunications, telematics and service providers, medical systems, as well as information systems and applications in the public sector. The institute provides support to companies of any size - from international corporations to small and medium-sized enterprises. The public sector also plays an important role as a project partner.
Fraunhofer IESE, which was founded in 1996, is directed by Prof. Dieter Rombach and Prof. Peter Liggesmeyer. It is one of 56 institutes of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, which, as the largest applied research organization in Europe, contributes to national and international competitiveness.
Contact:
Dr. rer. nat. Frank Seelisch
Phone +49 (631) 6800 1002
Fax +49 631 6800-1099
frank.seelisch@
iese.fraunhofer.de
Fraunhofer-Institut für Experimentelles Software Engineering IESE
Fraunhofer-Platz 1
67663 Kaiserslautern
http://www.iese.fraunhofer.de/press
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