Carl Adam Petri#
| Sadly, this member passed away. | |
| Membership Number: | 311 |
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| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Carl Adam Petri passed away June 2, 2010.
Positions held
- 1991 Retirement
- 1963 - 1968 Director of the computing centre of Bonn University
- 1968 Head of the first GMD Insitute (Forschungsinstitut für Informationssysteme of the newly founded Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung (GMD)
- Inventor of Petri Nets
Fields of Scholarship
- Petri-Nets
- Modelling of processes
Honours and Awards
- 1988 Cross of Honour First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany
- 1988 Honoraryprofessor at U. of Hamburg
- 1989 Member of Academia Europaea
- 1993 Konrad-Zuse-Medal of the German Society for Informatics (GI) for specila merits in Informatics
- 1997 Werner-von-Siemens-Ring for achievements in Technology and Science
- 1997 Member of the New York Academy of Sciences
- 1999 Honorary doctorate U. of Zaragossa
- 2003 Commandeur in de Orde van de Nederlandse Leeuw
- 2007 Gold Medal of Honor der Academy of Transdisciplinary Learning and Advanced Studies
- 2009 IEEE Computer Pioneer Award
- 2010 Gold Medal der Software Engineering Society (SES) for Transformative Achievement
