Here is a good example of information density to the extreme! Professor Dr. Peter Mertens, who was the first professor for information systems in Germany in 1968, created 5 printed pages of knowledge every workday for over 37 years.
All he needed was a 900ft2 office and effective time management that uses milliseconds as the smallest unit. Read more in my interview with him about why he believes that trends in science and business are unproductive. (German only)
Thursday, August 5th, 2010
Friday, July 16th, 2010
Friday, June 25th, 2010
Sportlines: The first sparklines in a German newspaper
Friday, June 4th, 2010
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Helmsman, leave your watch - Helmsman, help us adapt.
Friday, April 23rd, 2010
The first sparklines in "Die Welt" – well, almost…
Friday, April 2nd, 2010
You can’t wrap a fish in an iPad
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Friday, February 19th, 2010
From Pixelland to Panoramaland
Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Professor Peter Mertens
is emeritus at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg. With his professorial dissertation dating back to 1966 he established Information Systems in the German-speaking countries. His first chair of Information Systems (Lehrstuhl zur betrieblichen Datenverarbeitung) in Linz has been the prototype for about 140 chairs of Information Systems today. His standard book "Integrierte Informationsverarbeitung" has been published in 15 editions.
His achievements have been acclaimed and distinguished in numerous forms. Prof. Mertens is Fellow of the German Gesellschaft für Informatik, honorary member of the Association of University Professors of Management , honorary doctor at five universities in Germany, Austria and Switzerland, bearer of the ring of honor of the Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration and of the “Ehrennadel” of the 1. FC Nürnberg.
