Carl Adam Petri
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(b.) -1926 July 12(d.)2010 July 02
Bio/Description
Developer of Petri nets for modeling distributed systems, Petri introduced the concept in his Ph.D. thesis in 1962, where he originally called them communicating automata. Afterwards, Petri served as department head at GMD (Gesellschaft für Mathematik und Datenverarbeitung) in Birlinghofen, which later became part of the Fraunhofer organization.
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Date of Birth:
1926 July 12 -
Date of Death:
2010 July 02 -
Gender:
Male -
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German mathematician and computer scientist is best known by his designated for Petri nets for modeling of distributed systems. -
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