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At the end of March 2015, computer science pioneer Friedrich L. Bauer (1924-2015), Professor at TU Munchen, passed away. The mathematician worked on the foundations of computer science such as programming languages, compilers, cryptography and software engineering. F. L. Bauer was a friend of ETH and a personal friend of Heinz Rutishauser, the first computer science professor of ETH Zurich. (German)