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Karl Steinbuch | |
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| Born | (1917-06-15)June 15, 1917 Stuttgart-Bad Cannstatt, Germany |
| Died | June 4, 2005(2005-06-04) (aged 87) Ettlingen, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Stuttgart |
| Notable work | Lernmatrix |
| Political party | Nazi Party |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | computer science andelectrical engineering |
| Institutions | Standard Elektrik Lorenz |
Karl W. Steinbuch (June 15, 1917 inStuttgart-Bad Cannstatt – June 4, 2005 inEttlingen) was a Germancomputer scientist,cyberneticist, andelectrical engineer. He was an early and influential researcher in German computer science, and was the developer of theLernmatrix, an early implementation ofartificial neural networks.
From the late 1960s onwards the focus of his activity shifted from scientific research to right-wing political activism supporting theNeue Rechte.[1][2]
Steinbuch joined theNational Socialist German Students' League (NSDStB) and theNazi Party.[3]
Steinbuch studied at theUniversity of Stuttgart and in 1944 he received hisPhD in physics. In 1948 he joinedStandard Elektrik Lorenz (SEL, part of theITT group) inStuttgart, as a computer design engineer and later as a director ofresearch and development, where he filed more than 70patents.[citation needed] Steinbuch completed the first European fullytransistorized computer, the ER 56 marketed by SEL.[4] In 1958 he became professor and director of the Institute of Technology for information processing (ITIV) of theUniversity of Karlsruhe, where he retired in 1980.
In 1967 he began publishing books, in which he tried to influence German education policy. Together with books from colleagues likeJean Ziegler from Switzerland,Eric J. Hobsbawm from the UK, andJohn Naisbitt his books[which?] predicted what he regarded as the coming education disaster of the emerging civic lobby society.[citation needed]
In 1957, together withHelmut Gröttrup, Steinbuch coined the termInformatik, the German word for computer science,[5][6] which gaveinformatics, and the termkybernetische Anthropologie.[7]
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Steinbuch wrote several books and articles, including:[8]
{{cite journal}}:Cite journal requires|journal= (help)In seine Stuttgarter Zeit fällt auch Steinbuchs erste Publikation zur Informatik (1957). Zusammen mit Helmut Gröttrup, einem Mitarbeiter aus Peenemünde, hat er diesen Begriff erstmals geprägt und in die wissenschaftliche Literatur eingebracht.
