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Nationality German

Professional Development

since 2006 retired 

7 years 1998 to 2005 free lance consultant and trainer 
Oracle APPS Application Systems

9 years 1989 to 1998 Oracle Deutschland GmbH, Germany
Senior Consultant

9 years 1980 to 1989 mbp Software & Systems GmbH
Manager of development branch office Lüneburg with 9 employees, 
project manager for online-systems
on Nixdorf computers (now Siemens Nixdorf)

5 years 1974 to 1979 mbp Mathematical Consulting und Programming Services GmbH
Scientific staff member and project manager for the implementation of compilers and operating 
system BAPAS for the programming language PEARL 
(Process and Experiment Real Time Language)

5 years 1969 to 1974 computing center of the Technical University of Munich Germany
Head of a team in a research project on multiprocessor operating systems

4 years 1965 to 1969 Leibniz computing center of the Bavarian Academy 
of Sciences Munich Germany
Scientist and consultant for the users of the computing center in the areas of 
physics and chemistry, maintenance and upgrade of TR4 operating system, 
trainer for operating system und assembler 

till 1965 Studied Physics at Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Germany
Finished as Diplom-Physiker (comparable to a Master degree).  The thesis   
"Messung der Modulationsübertragungsfunktion photographischer Objektive mit Moirégittern"
(measuring the modulation transfer function of photographic lenses using Moiré grids) 
included the design and application of computer programs; 
it was rated with the best possible rate "Sehr Gut" (very good).

Membership

Foundation member of  Gesellschaft für Informatik GI e.V. founded in 1969
 

9 years 1975 to 1984 member and prepare of minutes of subsection "programming languages for
the control of technical processes" (Unterausschuss Programmiersprachen 
zur Steuerung Technischer Prozesse) in the German Standards Institution DIN for information processing
systems (Normenausschuss Informationsverarbeitungssysteme des Deutschen Institut für Normung) 

5 years 1984 to 1989 Chairman of working group "Programming Languages" of the German 
Standards Institution for information processing systems

Publications and Lectures
(This list is not complete)

G. R. Sapper and H. Pulvermacher: Eine Apparatur zur Messung der Modulationsübertragungsfunktion 
nach dem Moiré-Verfahren. Optik, Zeitschrift für das Gesamte Gebiet der Licht- und Elektronenoptik 
volume 23 (1965/1966) # 1 (October) page 101-108
(Lecture on Diplomarbeit / thesis at annual meeting of German society for applied optics/Deutsche Gesellschaft für 
Angewandte Optik DGAO 1969 in Berlin)

R. Röhler, U. Miller and G. Sapper: Bestimmung der Lichtverteilung auf der Netzhaut bei Abbildung einfacher Testobjekte
(calculation of the distribution of light on the retina for simple test objects)
Optik, volume 23 (1965/1966) page 47-55

Team member for production of report SOFTWARE ENGINEERING, Report on a Conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch Germany 7th to 11th October 1968.
(See also title page and editorial of Informatik Spektrum, Organ der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. volume 16 # 5 October 1993)    

G. R. Sapper: The Programming Language PS440 as a Tool for Implementing a Time-Sharing-System.
Lecture on 1st Fachtagung of GI (Gesellschaft für Informatik) über Programmiersprachen an der Technischen Universität München 9.-11th March 1972.  
Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems, Vol. 75 (1972) page 43-49, Springer Verlag
(PS440 is a machine oriented programming language, developed by Gerhard Goos, Klaus Lagally, and Gerd Sapper for the implementation of operating systems)  

Gerd R. Sapper: Modularisierung eines Betriebssystems unter dem Aspekt der Systemfehlerbehandlung.
(Structuring an operating system in modules under the aspect of system error handling).
Lecture at NTG/GI Fachtagung "Rechner und Betriebssysteme: Analyse, Simulation und Entwurf"
der Nachrichtentechnischen Gesellschaft im VDE NTG und Gesellschaft für Informatik GI; 12.-14.April 1972. 
Nachrichtentechnische Fachberichte Band 44 (1972) page 116-166/11 VDE-Verlag GmbH Berlin

Gerd R. Sapper: The Programming Language PS440 as a Tool for Implementing a Time-Sharing-System.
Lecture at Symposium on Languages for System Implementation at Purdue University, Lafayette, Indiana (USA) 25th-26th October 1971. 
ACM Association for Computing Machinery,
Special Interest Group on Programming Languages SIGPLAN Notices  6, vol. 9 (1971)

G. Goos, K. Lagally, G. Sapper: PS440, System TR440, 1. Teil. Rechenzentrum der Technischen Universität München Bericht 7002; Printed by: Telefunken Computer GmbH Order-Nr. N31.ZZ.10 Ausgabe 0572
(1972)

G. Sapper: Basisfunktionen zur Implementierung höherer Prozessautomationssprachen (Elementary functions for the implementation of high level process automation languages).  
Lecture in industry-program of annual conference 1975 of Gesellschaft für Informatik GI; 
Dortmund University, October 9th 1975
(summary of lecture in addendum to conference report)

P.J. Brunner, G. R. Sapper: A Uniform and Portable Operating System Interface for PEARL
In: H.Meyer (Ed.): Real-Time Data Handling and Process Control
Proceedings of the First European Symposium, Berlin, 23.-25thOctober 1979
North Holland (1980), Page 409-41; ISBN 0 444 85468 1

G. Sapper: Maschinenorientierte Sprachen. Handbuch der Informatik Band 3.1; R. Oldenbourg Verlag 
München Wien (1989) ISBN 3-486-20662-1
(Machine oriented Languages. Manual of Computer Science volume 3.1)

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