Wolfgang Coy is a Professor Emeritus of Computer Science at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. He is one of the founding members of the Hermann von Helmholtz Centre for Cultural Techniques and a former Chair of the Media Committee of the University Senate. From 2006 to 2009, he served as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural Sciences II at the Humboldt-Universität.
Research fields
Digital media, computer science, and society; theory of informatics; social and cultural history of informatics; information society; knowledge systems; intellectual property.