Chris Boos

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Hans-Christian Boos (* 1972 in Konstanz ), known as Chris Boos , is an IT entrepreneur, investor and member of the digital council of the federal government.

Life

After graduating from high school, Boos studied computer science in Zurich and Darmstadt , but also attended lectures in the field of English literature. In 1994 he broke off his studies and started working in risk modeling and capital market analysis in the Dresdner Bank Group .

In 1995 he founded the IT company arago GmbH with his uncle, a retired banker .

Boos has severe visual impairment due to an eye disease. In order to be able to read anyway, he always carries a magnifying glass with him.

Companies

The arago GmbH initially specialized in management and IT consulting, but called as a corporate objective the research and commercialization of general artificial intelligence (AI). Since 2014, the financial investor KKR has had a stake of 50 million euros in the company, but returned the shares to Boos in 2020. The company reportedly employed 200 people in 2018, while other figures from 2020 speak of only 94.

The main product is an AI-based assistance system called HIRO, which is supposed to take over regular tasks in companies with scripts that the system has derived from the behavior of human experts. As a demonstration, the company successfully trained its system in 2016 to beat human players in the simulation game Freeciv .

In April 2020, the Federal Office of Justice confirmed to the Stern magazine that formal administrative fine proceedings had been initiated against Arago “ex officio” because of unpublished business figures.

Boos is a board member and investor in various companies and start-ups. In 2019 he was a participant in the Bilderberg Conference and chairman of the jury for the German KI Prize of the business magazine Bilanz of Axel Springer SE .

In 2020 Boos worked as a co-initiator of the project on PEPP-PT ("Pan-European Privacy-Preserving Proximity Tracing"), which was supposed to develop a standard for a possible COVID-19 app that citizens should be able to use to check whether they are also involved in COVID -19 infected people came into contact. He is an advocate of the centralized solution, but it was eventually rejected.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b "Chris Boos". Federal Government, accessed on October 9, 2019 (portrait).
  2. ↑ The Faces of the Digital Council. Federal Government, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ a b c Britta Weddeling: Heads of Artificial Intelligence: Chris Boos. Handelsblatt, September 5, 2018, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  4. ↑ Chris Boos. arago GmbH, accessed on October 9, 2019 .
  5. ↑ Hans-Martin Tillack : Always on the air. In: Stern No. 24/2020, June 4, 2020.
  6. ↑ arago GmbH at Apollo.io. Accessed August 9, 2020 (English).
  7. ↑ Arago's Hans-Christian Boos Talks While Their AI Plays Freeciv at Disrupt London 2016. TechCrunch, December 6, 2016, accessed October 9, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Too little transparency: Proceedings initiated against the company of the Corona app guru Boos. In: stern.de , April 27, 2020.
  9. ↑ Participant Bilderberg 2019. In: npr.news. May 29, 2019, accessed April 25, 2020 .
  10. ^ The jury of the German AI Prize. In: welt.de. August 2, 2019, accessed March 21, 2020 .
  11. ↑ Dispute over the Corona app project. In: golem.de , April 16, 2020.
  12. ↑ Chris Boos is the visionary thought leader of the Corona app. In: tagesspiegel.de , June 20, 2020.
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SURNAME Boos, Chris
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Boos, Hans-Christian (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German IT entrepreneur, investor and member of the digital council of the federal government
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
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