Körber Dissertation Prize to Tobias Weitz
Dr. Tobias Weitz has been awarded a 5,000€ 2nd prize from the Körber Foundation for his dissertation, perhaps the most visible doctoral prize in the whole of Germany. Theses are awarded for their social relevance, in Dr. Weitz’s case this was the fundamental importance of his work for future light-based computers: as part of his dissertation, he was able to demonstrate for the first time a logic gate that could potentially allow computing clock rates in the range of petahertz (1 PHz). Today’s computers operate at clock rates of around 3 GHz – or 0.000 003 PHz. Here is the press release of the Körber Foundation, here the one of FAU.