Friedemann Mattern
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1955 –
Who is Friedemann Mattern?
Friedemann Mattern is a German scientist.
After studying computer science with a minor in communication sciences at the University of Bonn, Mattern became a VLSI design and parallelism researcher at Kaiserslautern University of Technology. He got his doctorate degree in 1989 after writing a dissertation on distributed algorithms. In 1991 Mattern was offered a teaching position at Saarland University in Saarbrücken; later he moved to Darmstadt University of Technology, where he started the program Electronic Market Infrastructure. In 1999 Mattern responded to ETH Zurich's call for the establishment of a Ubiquitous Computing research group. Since fall 2002, he has been on the Institute for Pervasive Computing Founding Board. Currently he is in charge of the Distributed Systems program at ETH Zurich. Mattern is also a co-founder of the common M-Lab Competency Center at ETH Zurich and the University of St. Gallen.
Together with Colin Fidge, he developed the vector clock algorithm, which allows to generate a partial ordering of events in a distributed system and to detect causality violations.
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- Born
- Jul 28, 1955
Freiburg im Breisgau - Nationality
- Germany
- Education
- University of Kaiserslautern
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on July 23, 2013
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