German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence

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German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI)
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH (DFKI)
Logo of the DFKI
Category: research Institute
Carrier: legally independent
Legal form of the carrier: GmbH
Facility location: Kaiserslautern , Saarbrücken , Bremen , Berlin , Osnabrück , Oldenburg
Branch office: Sankt Wendel , Trier
Type of research: Artificial intelligence
Subjects: Computer science
Management: Antonio Kruger
Employee: approx. 1150, including approx. 500 student employees
Homepage: www.dfki.de
DFKI location in Saarbrücken

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence GmbH ( DFKI ) is a public-private partnership with large companies, medium-sized companies, the states of Bremen , Lower Saxony , Rhineland-Palatinate and Saarland as shareholders and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as project sponsors. The Supervisory Board is made up of 4 representatives from the public sector and 30 representatives from industry and science.

With its locations in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Osnabrück and Oldenburg, a project office in Berlin and branch offices in St. Wendel and Trier, the DFKI is Germany's leading business research institution in the field of innovative software technologies based on artificial intelligence methods . In the international scientific world, the DFKI is one of the most important "Centers of Excellence".

In addition, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence maintains the so-called "CERTLAB", a laboratory for certification and digital sovereignty. The aim is to support the European Commission in the implementation of the European strategy on artificial intelligence and to promote the credibility and trustworthiness of AI.

history

The research center was founded in 1988 in Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken. The main research areas are a. in the areas of knowledge management , intelligent analytics for mass data, cyber-physical systems , robotics , innovative retail environments, business informatics , embedded intelligence, multi-agent technology , simulated reality, augmented reality , language technology , intelligent user interfaces ( human-computer interaction ) and innovative factory systems . Without basic government funding, i.e. through pure contract and project research, after more than 30 years the DFKI has developed into the world's largest center for artificial intelligence research with around 1150 employees. Since 1998, more than 90 spin-off companies with around 3,200 jobs have emerged from the DFKI .

The DFKI was in charge of the ambitious Verbmobil project for speaker- independent machine translation of spontaneous speech between German , English and Japanese . At the end of January 2011, the German-Austrian office of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) announced its move to the DFKI .

In 2011 the DFKI Kaiserslautern received the “Google Research Award” endowed with 100,000 dollars for its new project on the interaction with people and objects in digital videos.

From 1997 to January 2019 it was headed by founding director Wolfgang Wahlster . Since November 7, 2019, the DFKI has been headed by Antonio Krüger , who replaced the previous head Jana Koehler .

structure

The company's headquarters are in Kaiserslautern. The company management consists of the managing director and the site managers from Bremen, Kaiserslautern and Saarbrücken. The locations in Berlin, Osnabrück and St. Wendel are represented by so-called laboratory spokespersons in the company management.

The following research areas are based at the respective locations:

Kaiserslautern:

  • Smart data and knowledge services
  • Intelligent networks
  • Expanded reality
  • Embedded intelligence
  • Innovative factory systems

Saarbrücken:

  • Algorithmic Business and Production
  • Institute for Information Systems
  • Smart service engineering
  • Cognitive assistance systems
  • Agents and Simulated Reality
  • Language technology and multilingualism

Bremen:

  • Cyber-Physical Systems
  • Robotics Innovation Center

Osnabrück:

  • Plan-based robot control
  • Smart enterprise engineering

Oldenburg:

  • Marine Perception

St. Wendel:

  • Innovative Retail Laboratory (IRL)

Berlin:

  • Interactive textiles
  • Speech and Language Technology
  • Educational Technology
  • Intelligent analytics for mass data

The DFKI operates competence centers for these research fields at its locations:

  • Ambient Assisted Living
  • Autonomous driving
  • Deep learning
  • Emergency Response & Recovery Management
  • AI for the environment and sustainability
  • Semantic web
  • Secure systems
  • Smart Agriculture Technologies
  • Wearable AI

The following research laboratories (living labs) are also active at the locations:

  • Advanced Driver Assistance Systems Living Laboratory
  • Bremen Ambient Assisted Living Laboratory
  • Immersive Quantified Learning Laboratory
  • Innovative Retail Laboratory
  • Power4Production Laboratory
  • Robotics Exploration Laboratory
  • SmartFactory Laboratory
  • SmartCity Living Laboratory
  • Smart Office Space Living Laboratory

Awards

  • In 2006–2015, 2018 and 2019, various locations of the DFKI were "Selected Places" as part of the location initiative of the Federal Government and the German economy "Germany Land of Ideas".
  • In 2009, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2016, 2017 and 2019, the RoboCup team B-Human won the world championship title in the Standard Platform League at the robot soccer world championship. The team works under the direction of Thomas Röfer.
  • In 2011, the Avalon underwater vehicle of the student team from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI) in La Spezia, Italy, received 3rd place in the “Student Autonomous Underwater Challenge - Europe”. The team competed against nine teams from England, Spain, France and Scotland. The team works under the direction of Frank Kirchner .
  • In 2013, the "Display as a Service (DaaS)" developed at DFKI Saarbrücken won the CeBIT Innovation Award. This prize was awarded for the first time at CeBIT 2013 by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research and Deutsche Messe AG for outstanding developments in the areas of design, user-friendliness and human-machine interaction. This enables the wireless networking of data memories and output screens of any kind.
  • In 2020, the Institute for Information Systems at DFKI took first place in the Science Dialog under the patronage of the Federal Ministry of the Interior, for Building and Home Affairs.

Fellowship

Based on the procedure for filling a W2 professorship at a university, the DFKI appoints selected employees for outstanding scientific achievements and special achievements in technology transfer as DFKI Research Fellows .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ DFKI Supervisory Board. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ DFKI opens CERTLAB - Laboratory for Certification and Digital Sovereignty. Retrieved April 9, 2019 .
  3. ↑ DFKI computer scientists receive Google award. In: Saarbrücker Zeitung of February 8, 2011, p. B5.
  4. ↑ Research areas. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Competence Centers . Retrieved February 5, 2019 .
  6. ↑ Living Labs. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  7. ↑ Land of Ideas. Accessed July 30, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Institute for Information Systems at DFKI wins 1st place in Science Dialog. Retrieved July 29, 2020 .
  9. ↑ Overview of the Research Fellows at DFKI , accessed on December 19, 2017

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