Draft:Bernd Ulmann

Bernd Ulmann
Bernd Ulmann (born July 19, 1970 in Neu-Ulm) is a German computer scientist, mathematician and university lecturer. He is a professor at the University of Applied Sciences for Economics and Management in Frankfurt am Main and co-founder of Anabrid GmbH.

Life and career
Bernd Ulmann studied mathematics and philosophy at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz from 1989 to 1996. He wrote his diploma thesis on cryptography and number theory. In 2009, he completed his doctorate at the University of Hamburg under Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Faszination Analogrechnen - Geschichte und Grundlagen elektronischer Analogrechner (Fascination of Analog Computing - History and Basics of Analog Computers)). Ulmann has been a professor of business informatics at the Frankfurt School of Economics and Management since April 2010.

In 1999 he founded the company Raven Information Technologies GmbH in Bad Schwalbach. In 2000, he opened a museum for mainframe computers - in particular the VAX and Alpha processor - in Heidenrod-Kemel. Ulmann also maintains a unique collection of analog computers in Bad Schwalbach. Ulmann was founder and speaker of the Development SIG and deputy speaker of the Research and Education SIG at Connect Germany.

His hardware and software developments include the 16-bit processor QNICE and the programming language 5 (Five)

One of his goals is the miniaturization of analog computers to chip size, which should be "faster than digital systems" and consume "one hundredth of the energy". In 2020, he founded anabrid GmbH with his colleagues Dr Sven Köppel and Lars Heimann.

Books

 * Grundlagen und Selbstbau geophysikalischer Messinstrumente. 1. Auflage. 2004, ISBN 978-3-89959-212-2
 * Analogrechner: Wunderwerke der Technik - Grundlagen, Geschichte und Anwendung. 1. Auflage. 2010, ISBN 978-3-486-59203-0
 * AN/FSQ-7: the computer that shaped the Cold War. 1. Auflage. ISBN 978-3-486-72766-1
 * Mathematik - Eine Einführung für Praktiker. 1. Auflage. 2015, ISBN 978-3-11-037511-4
 * Programming Lang5. 1. Auflage. 2016, ISBN 978-1-5234-4811-1
 * Analog Computer Programming. 1. Auflage. 2017, ISBN 978-1-9782-0193-4
 * Analog and hybrid computer programming. 2. Auflage. 2023, ISBN 978-3-11-078773-3
 * Analog Computing. 2. Auflage. 2022, ISBN 978-3-11-078774-0

Papers(selection)

 * μ–EP–1, a simple 32-bit architecture, in Computer Architecture News, 6-1995 (Auch verfügbar im ACM Portal)
 * NICE - an elegant and powerful 32-bit-architecture, in Computer Architecture News, Oct-1997 (Auch verfügbar im ACM Portal)
 * A New Master Mind Codegenerator, in Journal of Recreational Mathematics, 2002, issue 31(1)
 * Bringing Seismic Data to the Web, in OpenVMS Technical Journal, No. 7, January 2006
 * Perl and VMS – a Powerful Match, in OpenVMS Technical Journal, No. 13, July 2009
 * Die Analogrechnerentwicklung bei Telefunken, 4. internationales Symposium zur Entwicklung der Rechentechnik, Greifswald, September 2009
 * Analog Computing – Fun with Differential Equations, Chalkdust Magazine, No. 3, 2016, pp. 53–59
 * Why Algorithms suck and Analog Computers are the Future, https://blog.degruyter.com/algorithms-suck-analog-computers-future/, 6. Juli 2017
 * Mathematik, in Medientechnisches Wissen, Band 3, 1. Auflage. 2020, ISBN 978-3-11-049626-0
 * Exploring Chaos with Analog Computers, in Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy, October 2022, 367-373

Weblinks

 * Literature by and about Bernd Ulmann in the catalog of the German National Library
 * Website of Bernd Ulmann with publications and information on analog computers
 * Portrait of Bernd Ulmann in the Frankfurter Rundschau of June 4, 2010
 * Publications by Bernd Ulmann on Google Scholar