Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems

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Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems
Category: research Institute
Carrier: Max Planck Society
Legal form of the carrier: Registered association
Seat of the wearer: Munich
Facility location: Stuttgart , Tübingen
Type of research: Basic research
Subjects: Natural sciences
Areas of expertise: Materials science , machine learning , machine vision , robotics
Basic funding: Federal government (50%), states (50%)
Employee: about 440
Homepage: www.is.mpg.de ; www.is.tuebingen.mpg.de

The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems has had his name since March 18, 2011 and is a research institute sponsored by the Max Planck Society . Its location in Stuttgart-Büsnau (the former Max Planck Institute for Metals Research) is realigning itself; A new part of the institute is being built in Tübingen.

research

The aim is to understand the principles of perceiving, learning and acting in autonomous systems. Systems that continue to work and function successfully, while at the same time adapting their structure and properties to a diverse and changing environment, are called “intelligent”. The researchers want to use this understanding to develop future systems. The institute's scientists study these principles in biological, hybrid and computer systems as well as in materials. The spectrum ranges from the nano to the macro range. With their interdisciplinary approach, the researchers combine mathematical models, computer and materials science, and biology.

Departments

  • Perceptual Systems (Tübingen, Director: Michael J. Black)
  • Theory of inhomogeneous condensed matter (Stuttgart, Director: Siegfried Dietrich )
  • Haptic intelligence (Stuttgart, director: Katherine J. Kuchenbecker )
  • Autonomous motor skills (Tübingen, currently no director; provisional management by Bernhard Schölkopf)
  • Empirical inference (Tübingen, Director: Bernhard Schölkopf )
  • Modern Magnetic Systems (Stuttgart, Director: Gisela Schütz )
  • Physical intelligence (Stuttgart, director: Metin Sitti)

Cooperation with the ETH Zurich

The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems and the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich (ETHZ) will in future cooperate closely in the research area of ​​"learning systems". To this end, they have founded a research network in which scientists from the two Max Planck sites in Stuttgart and Tübingen will find optimal conditions for working with their Swiss colleagues. As part of this network, the scientists carry out joint research projects, want to hold seminars and conferences and facilitate mutual access to their research facilities. The cooperation, which officially began in August 2013, is initially planned for three years.

History of the MPI-MF

The former Max Planck Institute for Metals Research looked back on a long history in Stuttgart. It was traditionally closely linked to the University of Stuttgart and its predecessor institution. Founded in 1921 in Berlin by Emil Heyn as the "Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research", it moved to Stuttgart in 1934. Originally, the scientists only researched metals and their alloys. Increasingly, they investigated non-metallic, especially ceramic materials. In the 1970s and 1980s , researchers at the MPI for Metals Research under the leadership of Günter Petzow did pioneering work in materials science, especially with regard to “high-performance ceramics” . The latter are used, among other things, in the aerospace industry, in automotive engineering, in medical technology or as isolators in computers. Around 15 years ago, bio-inspired materials research was added as a focus. Over the years, the spectrum of materials research had expanded so much that the name "metal research" ended up being primarily of historical value. In March 2011 the Senate of the Max Planck Society decided to rename it to “Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems”. In July 2011 the former MPI for Metals Research celebrated its 90th anniversary under the motto “90 years of excellence in materials research”.

literature

  • Places of thought; Max Planck Society and Kaiser Wilhelm Society; Breaks and continuities 1911–2011. Editors: Peter Gruss , Reinhard Rürup , Sandstein Verlag, 2010, ISBN 978-3-942422-01-7 .
  • Helmut Maier : Research as a weapon: armaments research in the Kaiser Wilhelm Society and the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute for Metal Research 1900–1945 / 48. 2 volumes. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0109-2 .
  • Helmut Maier (Ed.): Community research, authorized representatives and the transfer of knowledge: the role of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in the system of war-relevant research under National Socialism. Wallstein, Göttingen 2007, ISBN 978-3-8353-0182-5 . ( History of the Kaiser Wilhelm Society in National Socialism series. Volume 17. Ed. Reinhard Rürup and Wolfgang Schieder on behalf of the Presidential Commission of the Max Planck Society.)

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Coordinates: 48 ° 44 ′ 48 ″  N , 9 ° 4 ′ 53 ″  E