Claudia Müller-Birn

Claudia Müller-Birn at WikidataCon 2017

Claudia Müller-Birn (born 1976 ) is a German professor of computer science . Since 2012 she has been Professor of Web Science and Human Centered Computing at the Free University of Berlin .

Professional background

Claudia Müller-Birn completed her doctorate in 2008 on “Graph Theoretical Analysis of the Evolution of Wiki-Based Networks for Self-Organized Knowledge Management” at the University of Potsdam .

From 2009 to 2010 she was a postdoc in the research group “Coordination, Technology and Distributed Work” at the Institute for Software Research at the Carnegie Mellon School of Computer Science in Pittsburgh .

From 2010 to 2012, Müller-Birn was visiting professor in the research group "Network-based Information Systems" at the Institute for Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin.

Müller-Birn is head of the Human-Centered Computing (HCC.lab) working group at the Institute for Computer Science at the Free University of Berlin and principal investigator of the Cluster of Excellence "Image Knowledge Design" at the Hermann von Helmholtz Center for Cultural Technology . There she heads the focus “Architectures of Knowledge”.

Research priorities

In her research, Müller-Birn examines how human cognition can be combined with machine intelligence in order to expand the existing processes of knowledge generation in online communities . It is particularly interested in modeling, analyzing and evaluating user behavior in order to provide individualized services based on it.

Publications

Claudia Müller-Birn, Benjamin Karran, Janette Lehmann, Markus Luczak-Rösch: Peer-production system or collaborative ontology engineering effort: What is Wikidata? . In: Proceedings of the 11th International Symposium on Open Collaboration. ACM, 2015 ( doi: 10.1145 / 2788993.2789836 ).

Web links

Commons : Claudia Müller-Birn - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Wikiversity: Free Knowledge Fellow Program - Course Materials

Individual evidence

↑ Claudia Müller-Birn. August 16, 2007, accessed March 9, 2019 .
^ Claudia Müller-Birn: Human-Centered Computing. November 14, 2013, accessed March 9, 2019 .
↑ BWG News | Image knowledge design. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Müller-Birn, Claudia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German computer scientist and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH	1976

[1] Claudia Müller-Birn. August 16, 2007, accessed March 9, 2019 .

[2] Claudia Müller-Birn: Human-Centered Computing. November 14, 2013, accessed March 9, 2019 .

[3] BWG News | Image knowledge design. Retrieved March 9, 2019 .