professor
computer
Institute of Theoretical Computer Science
Switzerland
Prof. Widmayer, who was born in 1953, is from Ehningen, Germany. He studied at the Technical University in Karlsruhe, where he received his doctorate with a dissertation on algorithms and complexity in computer graphics and VLSI design. Afterwards, he spent a year at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in Yorktown Heights NY. He completed his habilitation at the University of Karlsruhe with his work on Approximation algorithms for Steiner's problem in graphs
Peter Widmayer has been full Professor of Computer Science at ETH Zurich (Chair of Algorithms, Data Structures, and Applications.