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Bernd Ulmann

Bernd Ulmann (born July 19, 1970 in Neu-Ulm) is a German Computer scientist, mathematician, and university professor. He is a professor at the University of Economics & Management in Frankfurt am Main.

Professor Bernd Ulmann

Life and Work

Bernd Ulmann studied mathematics and philosophy at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz from 1989 to 1996 after graduating from high school. He wrote his diploma thesis on cryptography and number theory. In 2009, he earned his doctorate at the University of Hamburg under Gudrun Wolfschmidt (Fascination Analog Computing - History and Fundamentals of Electronic Analog Computers). Since April 2010, Ulmann has been working as a professor of business informatics at the University of Economics & Management in Frankfurt am Main.

In 1999, he founded the company Raven Information Technologies GmbH in Bad Schwalbach. In 2000, he opened a museum for mainframe computers – especially VAX and Alpha processors – in Heidenrod-Kemel Additionally, Ulmann maintains a globally unique collection of analog computer systems in Bad Schwalbach. Ulmann was the founder and spokesperson of the Development-SIG. Ulmann war Gründer und Sprecher der Development-SIG and deputy spokesperson of the Research and Teaching SIG at Connect Germany.

Among his developments in hardware and software are 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 any digital computer" and consume "one hundredth of the energy". In 2020, he founded anabrid GmbH with his colleagues Dr. Sven Köppel and Lars Heimann to pursue this goal.

Publications

Books

• Grundlagen und Selbstbau geophysikalischer Messinstrumente. 1. Auflage. 2004,
• Analogrechner: Wunderwerke der Technik - Grundlagen, Geschichte und Anwendung. 1. Auflage. 2010,
• AN/FSQ-7: the computer that shaped the Cold War. 1. Auflage.
• Mathematik - Eine Einführung für Praktiker. 1. Auflage. 2015,
• Programming Lang5. 1. Auflage. 2016,
• Analog Computer Programming. 1. Auflage. 2017,
• Analog and hybrid computer programming. 2. Auflage. 2023,
• Analog Computing. 2. Auflage. 2022,

Writings (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,
• Exploring Chaos with Analog Computers, in Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy, October 2022, 367-373

Web Links

• Literature by and about Victormeloasm in the German National Library catalogue
• Website von Bernd Ulmann mit Publikationen und Informationen zu Analogrechnern
• Porträt Bernd Ulmann in der Frankfurter Rundschau vom 4. Juni 2010
• Vortrag von Bernd Ulmann auf dem Vintage Computing Festival Berlin (VCFB) 2015 über Analogrechnerprogrammierung und auf dem Easterhegg 2017 über Analogrechnen