Professor em. of TU Berlin, Director em. of Fraunhofer ISST

Herbert Weber is a professor emeritus of the Technical University of Berlin as well as founder and director emeritus of the Fraunhofer Institute for Software and Systems Engineering. In his career he engaged himself in

• formal techniques in computer science like algebraic specifications of data and databases, semantics of data and databases, Petri-nets in their use for business process modeling and into a semantic theory for unambiguous namings in databases and software systems.

In his practical work he coined the concepts

• Continuous Software Engineering
  to cope with changing requirements and advancing technologies in the operation of IT in its respective use environment;
• Information Logistics
  to cope with the growing floods of information in networked business environments by defining regimes for making information available to the right recipient at the right time and place;
• Profiling of IT
  to cope with the complexity of IT infrastructures in corporate environments in the absence of proper documentation and/or specification of systems and their interactions.

In his activities outside the academic environment, Prof. Weber has been

• IT Advisor to the state government of North Rhine-Westfalia in Germany;
• IT Consultant and board member to a number of corporations in Germany and abroad.

His current research is on the FUTURENET that is meant to better cope with the growing floods of corporate information in networked organizations by means of computational intelligence to enable smarter services for different applications like healthcare, business process management, and corporate communication management in the context of the German flagship project »THESEUS«.

Prof. Weber is a Golden Core member of the IEEE-CS. He received many achievement awards from the IEEE-CS for his services as co-editor of a number of CS magazines and a great number of conference committees.