Remembrance
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Remembrance
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Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Rosenstiel (5.10.1954–19.8.2020) Dear colleagues, It is with great sadness that I have to inform you of the passing of Professor Wolfgang Rosenstiel. Wolfgang endured a battle against cancer which ultimately took his life on August 19. Wolfgang and I have been the co-editors-in-chief since 2005 and his guidance and dedication to the journal have been invaluable. But his legacy, both technical and as a human being, stretches far beyond these pages. Wolfgang was a dedicated teacher, an outstanding researcher, a leader in several technical communities, a friend and esteemed colleague to many of us. I would like to remember a few details of Wolfgang’s remarkable career, although these words will certainly not do him justice. Wolfgang received his doctoral degree in 1984 from the University of Karlsruhe (today KIT) in Germany. His doctoral work and much of his work in the early years after graduating were on what was later called “high-level synthesis”, or the automatic synthesis of digital circuits from high-level specifications. He was a pioneer in electronic design automation. Having recognized the importance of high-level synthesis very early on, his research helped speed up the adoption of the technology by industry a few years later. In 1990, Wolfgang was appointed Chair of Computer Engineering at the University of Tübingen and continued expanding his technical influence in different fields. Besides design automation, Wolfgang and his students worked on machine learning techniques for medical applications, in particular, on intelligent prosthesis control and brain computer interfaces. His interdisciplinary research on invasive and non-invasive Brain Computer Interfaces (BCI) was awarded a highly renowned ERC Advanced Grant in 2009.
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Wolfgang’s research was internationally recognized and led to his participation in several major conferences in design automation. He was general chair of DATE (2007), EuroDAC (1997), HLSW (1992); and program chair of EuroDAC (1994, 1995) and EDAC (1992); besides participating in countless other program committees. His teaching activities focused on computer engineering, computer architecture, design and synthesis of microelectronic systems, neural networks in technical applications, and multimedia technology. He advised over 125 PhD students, many of whom are now professors and leaders in industry. Wolfgang was appointed Dean of the Faculty of Computer Science at the University of Tübingen in 2010. Later he became Managing Director of the Wilhelm Schickard Institute within the Faculty of Information and Cognitive Science. Besides his technical skills, Wolfgang was an avid skier, tennis player and dancer. He also took a special interest in cultural affairs, as chairman of the Museum Society Tübingen e.V. I have known Wolfgang for almost 30 years. We started as co-editors-in-chief of this journal in 2005 and we quickly developed an efficient and friendly working relat
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