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'''Oliver Vornberger''',<br/>
a German computer scientist and professor at the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Osnabr%C3%BCck University of Osnabrück], since 2017 professor emeritus. In Germany, he is pioneer in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E-learning E-learning], and offers free [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course open online courses] on [[Algorithms]] and [[Data]] structures through the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iversity iversity] European-based online education platform <ref>[https://iversity.org/en/courses/algorithmen-und-datenstrukturen iversity - Algorithmen & Datenstrukturen - Offener Onlinekurs]</ref>.
During the mid 70s, as undergraduate at [[University of Dortmund]], Oliver Vornberger was member of a project team around [[Hagen Huwig]] <ref>[[Hagen Huwig]] ('''1975'''). ''[http://www.worldcat.org/title/bericht-uber-eine-projektgruppe-mit-dem-thema-schachprogrammierung/oclc/632360799 Bericht über eine Projektgruppe mit dem Thema Schachprogrammierung]''. Bericht Nr. 9, [[University of Dortmund]] (German)</ref>, developing the chess program [[Proscha]], which played the [[First GI Computer Chess Tournament]] <ref>[https://www.computerwoche.de/a/computer-logik-im-koeniglichen-spiel,1205123 Erstes Computer-Schachturnier der Gesellschaft für Informatik] October 17, 1975, [[Computerworld#Woche|Computerwoche]] 42/1975 (German)</ref> <ref>[[Mathematician#Zumkeller|Reinhard Zumkeller]] ('''1975'''). ''Erstes GI Computer-Schach-Turnier, Dortmund 1975'', Bulletin, including a paper by [[Konrad Zuse]]</ref>.
Oliver Vornberger holds a Ph.D. in Computer Science from the [[Paderborn University]] and worked on [[Parallel Search|parallel search]] as member of the research group headed by [[Burkhard Monien]]. In the early 80s, he was postdoc at [[University of California, Berkeley]], where he worked with [[Mathematician#Blum|Manuel Blum]], [[Richard Karp]] and [[Mathematician#CHPapadimitriou|Christos H. Papadimitriou]], et al. <ref>[[Mathematician#Blum|Manuel Blum]], [[Richard Karp]], [[Oliver Vornberger]], [[Mathematician#CHPapadimitriou|Christos H. Papadimitriou]], [[Mathematician#MYannakakis|Mihalis Yannakakis]] ('''1981'''). ''[https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0020019081900508 The Complexity of Testing Whether a Graph is a Superconcentrator]''. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Information_Processing_Letters Information Processing Letters], Vol. 13, Nos. 4/5</ref>.
* [[Rainer Feldmann]], [[Burkhard Monien]], [[Peter Mysliwietz]], [[Oliver Vornberger]] ('''1989'''). ''Distributed Game-Tree Search''. [[ICGA Journal#12_2|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 2]] <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1989'''). ''Comment on 'Distributed Game-Tree Search'''. [[ICGA Journal#12_4|ICCA Journal, Vol. 12, No. 4]]</ref>
==1990 ...==
* [[Rainer Feldmann]], [[Burkhard Monien]], [[Peter Mysliwietz]], [[Oliver Vornberger]] ('''1990'''). ''Response to a Comment on 'Distributed Game-Tree Search'''. [[ICGA Journal#13_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1]] <ref>[[Jonathan Schaeffer]] ('''1990'''). ''A Rejoinder to the Response to a Comment on 'Distributed Game-Tree Search'''. [[ICGA Journal#13_1|ICCA Journal, Vol. 13, No. 1]]</ref>
* [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/t/Thiesing:Frank_M= Frank M. Thiesing], [[Oliver Vornberger]] ('''1997'''). ''Forecasting Sales Using Neural Networks''. [https://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/fuzzy/fuzzy1997.html Fuzzy Days 1997], [http://www2.inf.uos.de/papers_pdf/fuzzydays_97.pdf pdf]
* [http://www2.inf.uos.de/alumni/schnecke/ Volker Schnecke], [[Oliver Vornberger]] ('''1997'''). ''Hybrid genetic algorithms for constrained placement problems''. [[IEEE#EC|IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation]], [http://www2.inf.uos.de/papers_pdf/ieee_ec.pdf pdf]
