German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

DFKI building in Saarbrücken

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (German: Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) is one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes in the field of innovative software technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) methods. DFKI was founded in 1988, and has facilities in the German cities of Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin.

DFKI shareholders include Microsoft, SAP, BMW and Daimler.^[1] The current directors are Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (CEO) and Dr. Walter G. Olthoff (CFO).

Research

Currently, there are more than 116 ongoing projects at the research center. DFKI conducts contract research in virtually all fields of modern AI, including image and pattern recognition, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation, deduction and multi-agent systems, speech- and language technology, intelligent user interfaces, business informatics and robotics. DFKI led the national project Verbmobil, a project with the aim to translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese.

Branches

There are different research departments.^[2]

Kaiserslautern

Knowledge Management (headed by Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel)
Augmented Vision (Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker)
Innovative Factory Systems (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Zühlke)
Integrated Communication Systems (Prof. Dr. Paul Müller)

Saarbrücken

Innovative Retail Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger)
Institute for Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Peter Loos)
Agents and Simulated Reality (Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek)
Language Technology (Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit)
Intelligent User Interfaces (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster)

Bremen

Robotics Innovation Center (Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner)
Cyber Physical Systems (Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler)

Berlin

Project Office for Language Technology (Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit) and Intelligent User Interfaces (Dr. Norbert Reithinger)

Notes

↑ DFKI: Shareholders DFKI: Shareholders
↑ Research at DFKI Research at DFKI

External links

Official site
Professor Wolfgang Wahlster Profile
EU documents and DFKI: Grand Challenges in the Evolution of the Information Society PDF (1.14 MiB).
SmartWeb-Car PDF (1.72 MiB).
SmartWeb at CeBIT-2006.

Coordinates: 49°25′46″N 7°45′7″E / 49.42944°N 7.75194°E / 49.42944; 7.75194

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