Alwin Walther
from the University of Göttingen under the supervision of Gerhard Kowalewski and Max Otto Lagally [de].
[1] Alwin Walther, Heinz Billing, Helmut Schreyer, Konrad Zuse and Alan Turing met in Göttingen in 1947.
In the form of a colloquium, British experts (including John R. Womersley, Arthur Porter and Alan Turing) interviewed Walther, Billing, Schreyer and Zuse.
[7] Peter Schnell, founder of Software AG, Rudolf Zurmühl and Helmut Hoelzer, the inventor and constructor of the world's first electronic analog computer, were his students.
[2] From 1958 he was board member of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and from 1959 to 1962 he was vice president of the newly founded International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP).
[2] Alwin Walther was active for many years in the Association of Friends of the Technische Universität Darmstadt.
In 1928, Alwin Walther built the Institute for Applied Mathematics at the Technische Hochschule Darmstadt.
[2] At the computing station two decades before the invention of programming languages, algorithms were tested and used successfully in the processing of problems from industry.
[6] In 1951, the development of the digital electronic computing machine "Darmstädter Elektronischer Rechenautomat (DERA)" in tube technology was started.
Darmstadt 1964 in his Institute for Practical Mathematics
