Gerhard Widmer

Gerhard Widmer (* 1961 in Bildstein ) is an Austrian computer scientist. He is Professor of Computer Science at the Institute for Computational Perception at the Johannes Kepler University Linz .

Life

Widmer was born in Bildstein in 1961 and was a successful pianist in his youth. Among other things, he achieved first place in the Vorarlberg State Instrumental Competition in the piano category. He studied computer science at the Vienna University of Technology and graduated with honors in 1984. He then studied with a Fulbright Scholarship in the United States ( University of Wisconsin – Madison , 1984–1986).

In 2004 Widmer was appointed professor at the Johannes Kepler University Linz . There he heads the Institute for Computational Perception and is the spokesman for the Department of Computer Science. Since 2008 he has been a member of the Young Curia of the Austrian Academy of Sciences . He is head of the department for machine learning, data mining and intelligent music processing at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence in Vienna.

In 2009, Widmer received the Wittgenstein Prize, endowed with 1.4 million euros . In 2015 he received an ERC Advanced Grant of EUR 2.3 million from the European Research Council .

Prices

• Kardinal Innitzer Prize (sponsorship prize, 1997)
• Start price (1998)
• Wittgenstein Prize (2009)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.cp.jku.at/people/widmer/#Awards
2. ^ JKU Linz, Department of Computer Science: Contact us
3. ↑ http://www.ofai.at/research/impml/index.html
4. ^ "Austro Nobel Prizes" 2009 were awarded , science.orf.at, October 19, 2009
5. ↑ Gerhard Widmer - He expects Beethoven , Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, October 20, 2009
6. ↑ derStandard.at - ERC Advanced Grant for computer scientists from Linz . APA notification dated May 9, 2015, accessed May 9, 2015.

Web links

• Gerhard Widmer at the Institute for Computational Perception at the JKU Linz