Prof. Dr. Gunter Dueck

IT Expert and World Improver

Gunter Dueck, born in 1951, lives with his wife Monika in Waldhilsbach near Heidelberg. Dueck studied mathematics and business administration from 1971 to 1975 and earned his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Bielefeld in 1977. He researched for 10 years with his academic father Rudolf Ahlswede, with whom he won the Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1990 for a new theory of message identification.

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About Gunter Dueck

Gunter Dueck, born in 1951, lives with his wife Monika in Waldhilsbach near Heidelberg.

Dueck studied mathematics and business administration from 1971 to 1975 and earned his doctorate in mathematics from the University of Bielefeld in 1977.

He researched for 10 years with his academic father Rudolf Ahlswede, with whom he won the Prize Paper Award from the IEEE Information Theory Society in 1990 for a new theory of message identification. After his habilitation in 1981, he was a professor of mathematics at the University of Bielefeld for five years and then moved to the IBM Scientific Center in Heidelberg in 1987.

There, he founded a large working group to solve industrial optimization problems and was significantly involved in establishing IBM Germany’s data warehouse service business. He contributed to the strategy and technological direction of IBM and took care of cultural change. From 2009 to 2010, he played a leading role in establishing a new strategic growth area for IBM Corporation, aimed at the growing industrialization of IT infrastructures up to so-called cloud computing. Until August 2011, he was the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of IBM Germany. Since then, he has entered semi-retirement due to reaching the age of 60 and is currently working as a freelance writer, business angel, and speaker, continuing his relentless pursuit of world improvement.

Gunter Dueck was one of the IBM Distinguished Engineers and a member of the IBM Academy of Technology. He was a long-time member of the presidiums of the Society for Computer Science and the German Mathematical Society. He is an IEEE Fellow and a corresponding member of the Academy of Sciences in Göttingen.