Gustaf Neumann is an

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computer scientist A computer scientist is a scientist who specializes in the academic study of computer science. Computer scientists typically work on the theoretical side of computation. Although computer scientists can also focus their work and research on ...

who is specialised in

information system An information system (IS) is a formal, sociotechnical, organizational system designed to collect, process, Information Processing and Management, store, and information distribution, distribute information. From a sociotechnical perspective, info ...

s. He is a

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and the chair of the Institute for Information Systems and New Media at the

Vienna University of Economics and Business The Vienna University of Economics and Business ( , WU) is a public research university in Vienna, Austria. The university received triple accreditation (AACSB, EQUIS and AMBA). History WU was founded on 1 October 1898 as '' k.u.k. Exportakade ...

(WU Wien). Neumann is one of the authors of ''Wirtschaftsinformatik'', which is the bestseller book on Information Systems in German speaking countries with more than 500.000 copies.

Personal life

Gustaf Neumann is native of

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

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, born in 1958. His father, Gustaf Adolf Neumann, was an Austrian investigative journalist and

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Awards

* 1987 Heinz-Zemanek award of the Austrian Association of Computer Science (OCG) * 1988 Senator Wilhelm Wilfling Price * 2010 Tcl Community Service Award

Publications

Gustaf Neumann has published more than 200 books and papers in the areas of

program transformation A program transformation is any operation that takes a computer program and generates another program. In many cases the transformed program is required to be semantically equivalent to the original, relative to a particular Formal semantics of p ...

data modeling Data modeling in software engineering is the process of creating a data model for an information system by applying certain formal techniques. It may be applied as part of broader Model-driven engineering (MDE) concept. Overview Data modeli ...

, and information systems technology with a focus on

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applications. His book ''Wirtschaftsinformatik'' is one of the bestsellers in German Speaking countries.

References

External links

Personal Web-page at WU Wien

Institute for Information Systems and New Media

Vienna University of Economics and Business
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