Author: Dietmar Dietrich

Dietmar Dietrich is an electronics technician. With the help of the German Foundation “Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes”, he studied electrical engineering in Karlsruhe. After his doctorate, he worked in aeronautical engineering and later in communications engineering. His main topics as a professor of computer technology (in Bielefeld and Vienna), after working in the industry, were mainly automation processes, air traffic control, and increasingly problems of artificial intelligence. He was an organizer and co-organizer of many national and international scientific conferences, and for decades served worldwide on industrial and scientific committees. He previously edited the book “Simulating the Mind – A Technical Neuropsychoanalytical Approach” (Springer, 2009). He is the author of well over 200 publications and 19 books in the fields of automation, air traffic control, fieldbus technology, information technology, communications engineering or computer technology.