Gerd Veenker

Home * People * Gerd Veenker

Gerd Veenker, (1936 - 1996) was a German mathematician, computer scientist, AI researcher, and professor for CS and AI at University of Bonn. He received his Ph.D. in 1967 on first-order theorem proving at University of Tübingen, where his advisors include Karl Longin Zeller. Already during the early 60s in Tübingen, along with his fellow Frieder Schwenkel, Gerd Veenker developed a particular interest in non-numeric computation such as game playing and theorem proving. In 1965, he published a paper on a chess program to find a mate in two or three moves, but his focus remained on theorem proving where his scientific contributions are in the field of automatic deduction.

=Selected Publications=

1965 ...

 * Gerd Veenker (1965). Ein Programm zur Lösung von Schachaufgaben. Elektronische Rechenanlagen, Vol. 7, No. 1 (German)
 * Gerd Veenker (1967). Beweisverfahren für den Prädikatenkalkül. Ph.D. thesis, University of Tübingen, advisor Karl Longin Zeller (German)
 * Gerd Veenker (1967). Beweisalgorithmen für die Prädikatenlogik. Computing, Vol. 2, No. 3 (German)

1970 ...

 * Geerd-Rüdiger Hoffmann, Gerd Veenker (1971). The unit-clause proof procedure with equality. Computing, Vol. 7, Nos. 1-2
 * Gerd Veenker (ed.) (1975). Künstliche Intelligenzforschung in der BRD. Institut für Informatik, Bonn (German)
 * Gerd Veenker (ed.) (1976). Proc. des zweiten Treffens der KI-Fachgruppe. Dortmund (German)
 * Byoung-Tak Zhang, Gerd Veenker (1991). Neural networks that teach themselves through genetic discovery of novel examples. IEEE International Joint Conference on Neural Networks

2000 ...

 * Wolfgang Bibel (2006). The Beginnings of AI in Germany. Künstliche Intelligenz, Band 20, pdf
 * Wolfgang Bibel (2007). Early History and Perspectives of Automated Deduction. in Joachim Hertzberg, Michael Beetz, Roman Englert (Eds.) (2007). KI 2007: Advances in Artificial Intelligence: 30th Annual German Conference. LNAI 4467, Springer, pdf

=External Links=
 * The Mathematics Genealogy Project - Gerd Veenker

=References= Up one level