About University of Osnabrück, Institute of Computer Science
With the formation of the University of Osnabrück in the year 1974, the teaching unit Mathematics went into operation. Students could enroll into the major mathematics and could become a teacher in mathematics for primary and secondary schools.
In the fall term of 1977, the minor Computer Science was added to the teaching package and therefore the department was officially labelled Mathematics & Computer Science in 1985.
In the very beginning, there were three computer science professors: Axel-Tobias Schreiner (since 1987), Volker Sperschneider (since 1987) and Oliver Vornberger (since 1988).
Besides the traditional disciplines in the fields of mathematics, the diploma course covered a large portion of lectures in computer science. The students could choose the field of computer science as their core area of their study. They could also do their diploma thesis in computer science.