Forschungszentrum Informatik

The FZI Research Center for computer science at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology is a non-profit research institution of Baden -Württemberg and was founded in 1985 from the University of Karlsruhe out. It is dedicated to interdisciplinary and application-oriented research and the transfer of research topics in the industry around IT topics.

Tasks

In the " Federal Research Report 2006" of the BMBF, the tasks of the center:

  • Technologies: Engineering of software engineering, information and knowledge management, management of cross- business processes, embedded systems, mobile machinery;
  • Applications: connected car, connected healthcare, networked enterprise;
  • Innovative methods, tools and services of computer science for the industrial environment of the present and future.

The center is divided into four research areas, which are composed of the current directors and their staff:

  • Software Engineering Jörn Müller -Quade
  • Andreas Oberweis
  • Ralf Reussner
  • Walter Tichy
  • Kai Furman
  • Stefan Nickel
  • Rudi Studer
  • Stefan Tai
  • Christof Weinhardt
  • Jürgen Becker
  • Michael Huebner
  • Klaus Müller -Glaser
  • Wilhelm Stork
  • Rüdiger Dillmann
  • Jivka Ovtcharova
  • Wolfgang Rosenstiel
  • Hartmut Schmeck
  • Christoph Stiller
  • Marius Zöllner

Emeritus Directors of the FZI are:

  • Gerhard Goos
  • Peter Lockemann
  • Wolf Stucky

Financing

The FZI in 2007 a ​​total budget of 6.7 million euros, of which about 4.9 million euros and 1.8 million euros externally funded grant from state funds in the form of institutional funding. In financial year 2008, the total budget of 7.1 million euros, the state subsidy is planned with around 1.9 million euros.

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