German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

DFKI building in Saarbrücken

Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), lit. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, 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. Today it is based in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin.

Companies figuring among the DFKI-shareholders include Microsoft, SAP, BMW and Daimler.^[1]

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.

Currently, there are more than 116 ongoing projects at the research center.

The current directors are Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (CEO) and Dr. Walter G. Olthoff (CFO).

Branches

There are different research departements.^[2]

Kaiserslautern

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

Saarbrücken

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

Bremen

1. Robotics Innovation Center (Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner)
2. Safe and Secure Cognitive Systems (Prof. Dr. Bernd Krieg-Brückner)

Berlin

Notes

1. ^ DFKI: Shareholders DFKI: Shareholders
2. ^ Research at DFKI Research at DFKI

See also

• Artificial Intelligence

External links

• Official site
• Professor Wolfgang Wahlster Profile
• EU documents and DFKI: Grand Challenges in the Evolution of the Information SocietyPDF (1.14 MiB).
• SmartWeb-CarPDF (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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