Gerhard Stickel | i |
 
last name: Stickel
first name: Gerhard
also known as: Gerd Stickel
birthday: May 9, 1937
birth-place: Bochum (Germany)
Summary

Gerhard Stickel was from 1976 to 2002 Director of the influential and important Institut der Deutschen Sprache (IDS, Institute of the German Language) in Mannheim. (For his scientific career look up this or here.)

Although not an artist himself, Stickel appears in this repository of digital art because of his outstanding contribution to algorithmically generated poems. He called those texts,

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Biography

1963 State examination in German and English philology and general linguistics, after studies in Freiburg im Breisgau, Bonn, and the Wesleyan University (Connecticut, U.S.A.).
1964 – 66 With the [“Deutsches Rechenzentrum Darmstadt” (DRZ):Institution@130]. At the time, they had one of the most powerful computer systems (IBM 7090, later IBM 7094). DRZ acted as the information technology center
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