Andreas Stiller

Andreas Stiller was born in Hannover, Germany, in 1952. He has been working as editor of the c't magazin, a German computer magazine published by the Heinz Heise Zeitschriften Verlag in Hannover, for more than 25 years (as senior editor since 1987). He is responsible for hardware groundwork (mainly processors), servers and supercomputers, and programming "close to metal" in Fortran, Pascal, C/C++, Assembler, CUDA and Brook+. In 1993, he started the regular column “Prozessorgeflüster" (Processor Whispers), which covers all aspects around processors: technical, economical, personal. Since then, more than 256 of his columns have been published; and most of them are still available online (in German) at www.heise.de/ct.

Andreas was continuously present at the Microprocessor Forum (from 1994 until its end in 2005) and still regularly attends the Intel Developer Forum (since fall 1998) and the ISC (since 2001). He also works in close collaboration with the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation SPEC (CPU2006, SPECPower, etc.). When he ran across the Heise Verlag looking for a part time job as a student, he had been studying physics at the University of Hannover. After a short while, he started writing for Elrad – a magazine for electronics similar to elektor. Soon after the launch of c't in 1983, he switched over to the new computer magazine where he is still @ work.