Boolean Differential Equations / Synthesis Lectures on Digital Circuits & Systems (PDF)

on Multiple-Valued Logic (ISMVL), and as guested it or of the Journal of Multiple-Valued Logic and Soft Computing. He is the initiator and general chair of a biennial series of International Workshops on Boolean Problems (IWSBP) which started in 1994, with 10 workshops until now. He received the Barkhausen Award from the University of Technology Dresden in 1983.From 1963-1968, Christian Posthoff studied Mathematics at the University of Leipzig. His thesis was titled: ""Axiomatic Description of a Finite Class Calculus"" (Prof. Dr. Klaua). From 1968-1972, he worked as a programmer and in the field of Operations Research; simultaneously, he did his Ph.D. in 1975 with the thesis ""Application of Mathematical Methods in Communicative Psychotherapy."" In 1972, he joined the Department of Information Technology at the Chemnitz University of Technology; up to 1983, his research activities concentrated on logic design. His cooperation with B.Steinbach goes back to these days.Important results have been algorithms and programs for solving Boolean equations with a high number of variables and the Boolean Differential Calculus for the analytical treatment of different problems in the field of logic design. These results have been collected in a monograph Binary Dynamic Systems published simultaneously in Akademie-Verlag Berlin, Oldenbourg-Verlag Munich-Vienna and in the Soviet-Union, and allowed the habilitation (Dr.-Ing. habil.) at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering in 1979 and the promotion to Associate Professor. He wrote two textbooks at this time, aimed at a higher level in the theoretical and mathematical training of graduate engineers of information technology. About 1976, he started research activities in Artificial Intelligence. In 1983, Posthoff started as Full Professor of Computer Science in the Department of Computer Science at the same university, with the aim of starting the program in Computer Science in 1984. In 1984, he became Head of the Institute of Theoretical Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence and Research Director of the Department of Computer Science. An independent direction of research activities within AI, investigations of computer chess and other strategic games, arose from his love for chess. His research activities concentrated on the application of fuzzy logic for the modeling of human-like ""thinking"" methods, the learning from examples, the construction of intelligent tutoring systems, the parallelization of inference mechanisms, systems of diagnosis and configuration. In cooperation with colleagues from different areas of mechanical engineering and medicine, he has been supervising the construction of several expert systems. He received the Scientific Award of the Chemnitz University of Technology four times. In 1994,he moved to the Chair of Computer Science at the University of The West Indies, St. Augustine, Trinidad & Tobago. From 1996-2002 he was Head of the Department of Mathematics & Computer Science. His main focus was the development of Computer Science education at the undergraduate and graduate level to attain international standard. In 2001, he received the Vice-Chancellor's Award of Excellence. He is the author or co-author of 15 books and many publications in journals and conference proceedings.