German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI ) is a public-private partnership with large companies, small businesses, the states of Rhineland -Palatinate, Bremen and Saarland as shareholders and the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research as a project sponsor. The industry has the majority in the Supervisory Board.

The research center was founded in 1988. Registered Office is Kaiserslautern, research sites are Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and a project office in Berlin. Content focuses on knowledge management, cyber-physical systems, robotics, Innovative Retail Environments, business computer science, embedded intelligence, multi-agent technology, Simulated Reality, Augmented Reality, language technology, intelligent user interfaces ( human-computer interaction) and Innovative Factory Systems. Without government funding, so by pure order and project research, the DFKI has developed after nearly 25 years, the world's largest center for artificial intelligence research with more than 800 employees. Since 1998, more than 50 spin -off companies have emerged with some 1200 jobs from the DFKI.

DFKI has been instrumental in the Verbmobil ambitious project for speaker-independent machine translation of spontaneous speech between English, German and Japanese. End of January 2011 was the German - Austrian Office of the World Wide Web Consortium ( W3C), to move to the DFKI known. 2011 received the DFKI Kaiserslautern, endowed with $ 100,000 in "Google Research Award" for his new project to interact with people and objects in digital video.

Awards

• 2009, 2010 and 2011 brought the RoboCup - B-Human team at the world championships in robot soccer three consecutive World Champion title in the Standard Platform League. The team works under the direction of Thomas Röfer.
• 2011 was the underwater vehicle Avalon student teams from the University of Bremen and the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence ( DFKI) in La Spezia, Italy 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.