Gregor von Bochmann (computer scientist)
Canadian physicist (born 1941)
Gregor von Bochmann (born 1941 in Schleswig-Holstein) is a German-Canadian computer scientist and emeritus professor of the Université de Montréal and the University of Ottawa. He is known for his work in the area of protocol engineering and distributed applications.
Biography
Gregor von Bochmann grew up in an artistic family, two of his great-grandfathers being well-known painters (Gregor von Bochmann and Hans Peter Feddersen). From 1952 to 1961, he attended the Johann-Heinrich-Voß-Gymnasium in Eutin. Then he studied physics at the universities of Kiel, Tübingen, Grenoble (France) and München. In between, he studied for one year cello and piano at the Musikhochschule Lübeck. He completed his master's in 1968 with a thesis about his participation in the second muon g-2 experiment at CERN. Then he moved to Canada and completed his PhD in 1971 at McGill University in the field of theoretical high-energy physics. With programming experience in machine, assembler and high-level languages obtained during his work on the master and PhD theses, he used a post-doctoral scholarship from the National Research Council of Canada to get familiar with certain fields of computer science. 1972 he became assistant professor in the computer science department of the Université de Montréal.
His first research topic in computer science was related to neural networks.
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