Jurg Gutknecht is Professor of Computer Science at the ETH Zurich. As Dean of the Informatics Department in 1995 he pioneered the US-type credit system at ETH.
Prof. Gutknecht was born in Bulach ZH on January 3, 1949. From 1967 to 1970 he was a member of the real-time system programming group at Swissair. From 1970 to 1974 he studied mathematics at the ETH and simultaneously worked at IBM as a student employee. In 1978 he received his doctorate. After a three year period as a professor of mathematics, he joined Niklaus Wirth's Lilith/ Modula research team in 1981. In 1985, after a sabbatical stay at the Xerox-PARC Research Laboratory in California, he was appointed Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the ETH. Then, together with Wirth, he developed the Oberon programming language and system.
Professor Gutknecht's focus of research is in the area of programming languages, compilers and runtime platforms, with an emphasis on object models and component technology. His newest constructive creations are the "Zonnon" language evolution and the AOS (Active Object System) runtime.
This is a joint event with the British Computer Society Advanced Programming Group
6.00 p.m: Address and Lecture by Professor Jurg Gutknecht:
"New clothes and old hats: A personal resumee of 20 years of programming language research",
There will then be the Award of an honorary Visiting Professorship to Prof Gutknecht by Brian Roper, Vice Chancellor, London Metropolitan University
Followed by a reception.
Venue: Graduate Centre, London Metropolitan University, Holloway Road, London. The Centre is very close to Holloway Road underground station.
Admission: Free, but please ask to add your name to the security list by e-mail
