Background
Habermann was born in Groningen, Netherlands, and earned his Bachelor of Surgery in mathematics and physics and Master of Surgery in mathematics from the Free University of Amsterdam in 1953 and 1958.
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After working as a mathematics teacher, in 1967 he received his Doctor of Philosophy in applied mathematics from the Eindhoven University of Technology under advisor Edsger Dijkstra.
Career
In 1968 Habermann was invited to join the Department of Computer Science at Carnegie Mellon University as a Visiting Research Scientist. He also cofounded Carnegie Mellon"s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) in 1985. Habermann"s research included programming languages, operating systems, and development of large software systems
He was known for his work on inter-process communication, process synchronization and deadlock avoidance, and software verification, but particularly for the computer languages ALGOL 60, BLISS, Pascal, and Ada.
He also contributed to new operating systems such as Edsger Dijkstra"s THE multiprogramming system, the Family of Operating Systems (FAMOS) at Carnegie Mellon, Berlin"s Dynamically Adaptable System (Directory of American Scholars), and Uniplex Information and Computing System. Habermann served as visiting professor at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne (1973) and the Technical University of Berlin (1976), as well as Adjunct Professor at Shanghai Jiao Tong University (1986–1993).
