TUD Faculty of Computer Science
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| Motto | Shaping Digital Realities |
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| Established | 1969 Department Information Processing Since 1990 Faculty of Computer Science |
| Dean | Christel Baier |
| Location | , , |
| Affiliations | TU Dresden |
| Website | cs |
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The Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dresden is one of the leading CS faculties in Germany. Computer Science at TUD has a long-standing, successful tradition. TU Dresden is one of only five universities in Germany where the first computer science study programs (formerly known as Information Processing) were established in 1969.[1] Today, the faculty is part of the School of Engineering Sciences.[2]
Overview
The Faculty of Computer Science at TU Dresden is a community of researchers, teachers, and learners who are aware of their scientific, societal, and ethical responsibility. The faculty is the home of six institutes[3], more than 30 professors[4], 340 employees, and 2.300 students.
The faculty offers international study programs such as the Master's in Computer Science and the Master's in Computational Modeling and Simulation.
The institutes at the faculty comprises Applied Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Software- and Multimedia-Technology, Systems Architecture, Computer Engineering, and Theoretical Computer Science.
The faculty makes significant contributions to the clusters of excellence and large collaborative projects at TU Dresden, is responsible for ScaDS.AI (Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Dresden/Leipzig), one of the five AI centers in Germany, heads its own Collaborative Research Center/Transregio on Comprehensible Software Systems with CPEC, supervises SECAI, one of the three DAAD Zuse Schools of Excellence in Artificial Intelligence in Germany, and is one of the nine NHR centers that coordinate national high-performance computing in Germany.
In the DFG Funding Atlas 2024, the TUD Faculty of Computer Science is ranked fourth among all computer science faculties in Germany.[5]
History
The establishment of the Department "Information Processing" was decided on October 22, 1968, as a result of the GDR's third higher education reform. The name "Information Processing" was deliberately chosen instead of "Informatics" and was a reference to the international computer science organization International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP). By establishing this department at TU Dresden, the field of computer science became institutionalized at an university-level, including education and research, in in the GDR for the first time.
The department was founded ad hoc ("from scratch"), primarily with engineers, which resulted in the early classification of computer science in the GDR as part of the technical sciences. A study program had to be developed within a very short time, which was then standardized for the GDR by the study program group at the Computer Science Advisory Board of the Ministry of Higher Education and Technical Education. In contrast to many universities in the former West German states, the department did not grow out of an existing degree program (e.g., mathematics), but was a newly established independent institution.
Notable people
Honorary doctors[6]
- 2008 Lutz Heuser
- In recognition of his outstanding achievements, in particular as a bridge builder between science and business, as well as his long-standing and fruitful collaboration with the Faculty of Computer Science in supporting graduates and research projects.
- 2021 Torben Bach Pedersen
- In recognition of his outstanding achievements in the field of 'Big Multidimensional Data.
- 2024 Richard Socher
- In recognition of his outstanding scientific achievements in the field of artificial intelligence, in particular for groundbreaking work on language processing using artificial neural networks and their practical application in socially relevant areas.
Faculty
- Franz Baader – recipient of the Herbrand Award in recognition of his significant contributions to unification theory, combinations of theories and reasoning in description logics
- Christel Baier – pioneering work in the field of probabilistic model checking (PMC).
- Hermann Härtig – pioneering work on microkernel construction, inventor of L4Linux and M3
- Markus Krötzsch – initial co-creator of Semantic MediaWiki and co-founder of Wikidata
- Nikolaus Joachim Lehmann – first lectures in informatics in the GDR in 1967
- Wolfgang Lehner – contributions to SAP HANA, member of the German Science and Humanities Council
- Andreas Pfitzmann – pioneering work in the field of data protection and privacy, introduced a well-known terminology for talking about privacy by data minimization
- Matthias Wählisch – co-founder of the IoT operating system RIOT, several contributions to Internet technologies of the IETF
Alumni
- Dr. Loic A. Royer – Director of Imaging AI and Senior Group Leader at the Chan Zuckerberg Biohub
- Daniel Woithe – Chief Technology Officer (CTO) DB Systel
References
- ↑ Demuth, Birgit; Rohde, Frank; Aßmann, Uwe (June 2022). "50 Jahre universitärer Informatik-Studiengang an der TU Dresden aus der Sicht von Zeitzeugen in einem Zeitstrahl". Informatik Spektrum. 45 (3): 183–191. doi:10.1007/s00287-022-01457-0.
- ↑ "School of Engineering Sciences -- TU Dresden". TU Dresden. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
- ↑ "Institutes and Chairs — Faculty of Computer Science — TU Dresden". TU Dresden, Faculty of Computer Science. Retrieved 26 October 2025.
- ↑ "Professors A-Z — Faculty of Computer Science — TU Dresden". Retrieved 26 October 2025.
- ↑ "German Research Funding Atlas 2024". DFG. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
- ↑ "Honorary graduates of the TH/TU Dresden". TU Dresden. Retrieved October 2, 2025.
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