FAW Ulm
The FAW Ulm (Research Institute for Application-Oriented Knowledge Processing) was an institute of the University of Ulm, founded in 1987 and closed in 2004 .
FAW Ulm, 1987 to 2004
The FAW Ulm was founded in October 1987 as the first independent institute for artificial intelligence in Germany and was based in Ulm on the Obere Eselsberg . The institute director was Franz Josef Radermacher . In addition to the federal state of Baden-Württemberg , whose then Prime Minister Lothar Späth had campaigned heavily for the establishment of the institute, various industrial companies were involved as donors . The last group of donors consisted of the state of Baden-Württemberg, DaimlerChrysler AG , Jenoptik AG , the Austrian state of Carinthia , Deutsche Sparkassenverlag, Hewlett-Packard GmbH, Robert Bosch GmbH , Stadtsparkasse Köln, Tecomac AG and ZF Friedrichshafen AG . The institute made it possible for the donor companies, some of which were competing on the market, to conduct pre-competitive basic research and, through close cooperation with the University of Ulm, served to integrate research and industry.
Of the five AI institutes founded in Germany at the end of the 1980s, in the following years not only the DFKI but also the FAW Ulm, with its research focus on service robotics , gained national political importance .
After the state of Baden-Württemberg withdrew as a benefactor in 2000, the FAW ceased its activities at the end of 2004 due to insufficient funding. Research areas at the time of closure were:
- Autonomous systems / man-machine systems
- Business processes / telematics
- Software technology / communication
- Environmental information systems
- Traffic informatics
Successor solution from 2004
After the closure, the city of Ulm advocated a continuation solution and, by joining, enabled the formation of a new donor committee. The new institute, which was in turn headed by Franz Josef Radermacher and founded at the end of 2004, refers to its activities linked to the work of the FAW Ulm by the designation "FAW / n" (for "FAW new"), but without legally being its successor deals primarily with research into globalization processes .
Web links
- Official website
- Literature from and about FAW Ulm in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ^ A b c Wolf-Dieter Hepach : The Ulm University . South German Verlagsgesellschaft Ulm in Jan Thorbecke Verlag, 2007, ISBN 978-3-7995-0187-3 , pp. 89-91.
- ↑ Bernd Reuse, Roland Vollmar (Ed.): Computer science research in Germany . Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg / New York, 2008, ISBN 978-3-540-76549-3 , pp. 63/64.
- ↑ FAWn leaflet ( Memento of the original from February 21, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. .
