My Life Up To Now

1962

born in Munich, Bavaria, Germany, as the only child of

Lieselotte Stut (kindergarden teacher) and
Hans Stut (electronics engineer developing products with power semiconductors at the Siemens company, he died in early 1995).

1968 September

entered elementary school in Gröbenzell (near Munich)

1972 July

finished elementary school (in the state of Bavaria always grade 1-4)

1972 September

entered gymnasium (the highest german variation of high school, in Bavaria always grade 5-13) in Olching (neighbouring village)

foreign languages: English (grade 5-13) and Latin (grade 7-11)

1976 July

passed the exam for the amateur radio licence (call: DF2CG), including morse code and the permission to operate on shortwave

1980 October

passed the exam for the driving licence class 3 (cars up to 7.5 tons, minimum age 18)

1981 January

the german army decided not to draw me for health reasons (probably my short sighted eyes)

1981 June

graduated from Gymnasium with the Abitur degree, average mark 1.6 (1.0 is best, 6.0 is worst, passed if better than 4.5 [50% score]); major subjects were mathematics and physics

1981 July

move to Tokyo, Japan together with my parents (my father worked there for Fuji Electronic Components (FEC), a joint venture of Siemens and Fuji Electric)

1981 Oct-Dec

intensive course in Japanese

1982 Jan/Feb

Contacts with swiss-german missionaries in Tokyo had significant impact on long term perspectives.

1982/83

2 times 6 months of work at the central laboratory of Fuji Electric in Yokosuka, Japan on computer simulation of integrated circuits (including FORTRAN programming)

1983 August

return trip to Germany by the Transsiberian Railroad

1983 November

entered the Technische Universität München to study computer science (Informatik) with side subject economics

1985 August

started a side job refining the order processing system (HP 260, multiuser basic interpreter) of a toy importer (Jockline)

1987

together with the manager of the toy importer, an own small company was founded. Main revenues came from a PC program interfacing to a telex-box

1988 November

received the degree "Diplom Informatiker" (roughly comparable to an american masters degree in computer science) with an average mark of 1.1 (1.0 is best, 5.0 is worst, passed if 4.0 [43%] or better) from the Technische Universität München

1989 January

left the small company to start PhD dissertation attempt on user interface generation at the chair of Prof. Eickel at the Technische Universität München, funded by a scholarship of Siemens AG.

1991 March

I (and some of the others working on the project) gave up the dissertation, because the professor's requirements of formal description couldn't be met. My ideas (interface the user interface with the application by method invocation like in object oriented programming) were said to be good, just not expressed formally enough - too much like an engineer would do, not like a mathematician. The project has been finished in the meantime.

1991 May

moved to Marburg to work as the central computer specialist of the Deutscher Gemeinschafts-Diakonieverband

1996/1997 September

theoretical part of a master course on data communication systems at Brunel University, West London, Department of Electrical Engineering & Electronics - 17 weekends (friday/saturday) at the Technische Akademie Esslingen (near Stuttgart), plus exams, and assignments.

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