Gerhard Fischer (professor)

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Professor Emeritus
Gerhard Fischer
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Nationality German and American
Alma mater University of Hamburg
University of Heidelberg
Awards CHI Academy, ACM Fellow, RIGO Award (SIGDOC)
Scientific career
FieldsDesign, meta-design, human-computer interaction, lifelong learning, Intelligence Augmentation (IA)
Institutions University of Colorado, Boulder
Doctoral advisor Klaus Brunnstein
Other academic advisors Herbert A. Simon (Habilitation Advisor)
Website l3d.colorado.edu/people/gerhard-fischers-home-page/

Gerhard Fischer (born July 2, 1945) is Professor Emeritus of Computer Science, a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science, and the founder and director of the Center for LifeLong Learning & Design (L3D) at the University of Colorado, Boulder.

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Education

In 1971, Fischer graduated with a Master in Mathematics and Physical Education from the University of Heidelberg. With a fellowship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), he spent the following two years at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and the University of California, Irvine. He obtained a PhD from the University of Hamburg in Computer Science (1977), followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Cambridge (working with Seymour Papert and the LOGO community [1] ) and Xerox Parc [2] (working with Alan Kay and the Smalltalk community).

Career

From 1978 to 1984, Fischer was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Stuttgart, during which he spent several extended visits at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh to study with Herbert A. Simon who served as the primary advisor for his "Habilitation" degree that he obtained in 1983 from the Department of Computer Science at the University of Stuttgart. In 1984, Fischer accepted a position in the Computer Science Department of the University of Colorado, Boulder combined with being a Fellow of the Institute of Cognitive Science. He was Stiftungsprofessor at the Department of Computer Science of the Technische Universität Darmstadt, Germany in 1994-1995 and Erskine fellow at the University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand in 2002-2003. In 2012, Fischer was awarded a "Chair of Excellence" at the Charles III University of Madrid, Spain and he spent six months in 2012 and 2013 as a visiting professor at UC3M. He obtained two fellowships from the Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (HWK) [3] [4] an Advanced Study Institute in Delmenhorst, Germany and he twice spent 6 months — in 2014/2015 and 2021/2022 — at the HWK as a fellow. He was invited as a Visiting Professor to the TU Wien, Austria (October 2018) and the Hiroshima University, Japan (April 2019).

Research

In his work at the University of Stuttgart (1978-1984), Fischer explored theoretical frameworks and system developments for Human-Computer Interaction and co-founded conferences in Germany on "Mensch-Maschine Kommunikation" (1980) and "Software Ergonomics" (1983). His early work at University of Colorado Boulder (1984-1994) was centered on domain-oriented design environments, critiquing systems, and the exploration of high-functionality environments. Starting in 1994, Fischer explored themes in meta-design, social creativity, cultures of participation, computer-supported collaborative learning, support environments for people with cognitive disabilities,and collaborative problem solving and decision making with tabletop computing environments. He participated in the development of numerous NSF research programs (including: Lifelong Learning, Science of Design [5] , Creativity and IT [6] ). During his years at CU Boulder, he served as the principal advisor of 20 PhD students.

He retired as professor emeritus in 2012. Since 2012, Fischer's research activities have centered around identifying design trade-offs associated with wicked problems, human-centered AI, rethinking and reinventing learning, education, and collaboration, and exploring quality of life as a fundamental objective of the digital age [7] .

Fischer is serving on the boards of the Bonn-Aachen International Center for Information Technology [8] , Munich Center of the Learning Sciences, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Neue Medien [9] , University of Siegen and GRADE PhD School, University of Gothenburg, Sweden [10] .

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