Friedemann Mattern

Friedemann Mattern (born July 28 1955) is a German scientist.

After studying computer science with a minor subject of communication sciences at the University of Bonn Mattern was a research scientist at "VLSI Design and parallelism" in the Department of computer science at the University of Kaiserslautern.

In 1989, with a dissertation on "Distributed Algorithms base" doctorate. In 1991 he was awarded a professorship at the University of the Saarland in Saarbrücken later he moved to the Technical University of Darmstadt, where he is the Graduiertenkolleg "infrastructure for the electronic market," founded.

In 1999 he followed the call to the ETH Zurich and began with the establishment of a research group for Ubiquitous Computing. Since fall 2002, he has been a founding board of the Institute for Pervasive Computing. Currently he heads the field "Distributed Systems" at the ETH Zurich. Mattern is also co-founder of the common M-Lab Competency Center at the ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen.

Publications

*"Distributed Algorithms for Termination Detection"
*"Virtual Time and Global States of Distributed Systems"
*"Detecting Causal Relationships in Distributed Computations: In Search of the Holy Grail";
*"Social, Economic, and Ethical Implications of Ambient Intelligence and Ubiquitous Computing"
*"From the disappearance of the computer - the vision of the Ubiquitous Computing"
*As editor, together with meat Elgar: The Internet of things. Ubiquitous computing and RFID in practice. Visions, technologies, applications, operating manuals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg and New York, 2005, 378 p. (VIII), ISBN 3-540-24003-9"

References

*http://people.inf.ethz.ch/mattern/
*http://www.m-lab.ch/
*http://de.scientificcommons.org/friedemann_mattern