Programming for everyone


As part of the Day of Computer Science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) on June 30, 2017, Uniserv, an expert in data management, once again endowed the research prize for dissertations in the field of "Algorithms for Efficient Data Processing".
The prize winner is Mathias Landhäußer. In his work, he explores a groundbreaking new approach to programming computer systems in normal language that enables even IT laypeople to control computer systems with programs of moderate complexity.

Landhäuser deliberately sees his work as a counter-proposal to the demands from politics and business to train everyone as programmers: In Germany, for example, the inclusion of computer science as a subject in standard school curricula is under discussion.
However, computer and software systems are becoming increasingly important in everyday life. Shouldn't they be further developed in such a way that they become suitable for everyday use, so that everyone can access their programming even without studying computer science?
Landhäußer dealt with this very challenge in his dissertation and went a significant step further on the way to natural language programming.