Jean Kuntzmann

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Jean Kuntzmann

Creator of the first French computer science research laboratory, in 1951, and at the same time, of the first Applied Analysis course intended to train mathematical engineers in 1957, Jean Kuntzmann was also at the origin of the creation of ENSIMAG in 1960. With a mathematical training (Ecole Normale Superieure, ranked first at the aggregation of mathematics in 1934), his vision of analysis and algebra is rapidly indistinguisable from the development of the computer tool, and from the necessary openness towards industry and the other domains.
At his initiative, the teaching of programming began in 1956 in Grenoble. The same year, the Computing Laboratory is equipped with a Bull computer.
The Mathematics-Computer Science-Computation triptych also underlies his teaching and research activities, which range from numerical analysis to Boolean algebra. By positioning itself in the field of Computational Sciences, the LJK resolutely claims this scientific vision at the interface between Mathematics and Computer Science, alongside other Grenoble laboratories such as the Fourier Institute (IF) and the Grenoble Computer Science Laboratory (LIG).