Carl Adam Petri

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(b.) July 12, 1926 — (d.) July 2, 2010

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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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Noted For: German mathematician and computer scientist is best known by his designated for Petri nets for modeling of distributed systems.
Category: Computer Scientist - Software/Mathematics
Affiliation: Fraunhofer Institute Birlinghofen
Gender: Male

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