The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, DFKI (German: Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz) was founded in 1988 as a non-profit public-private partnership. It has research facilities in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen, Oldenburg, and Osnabrück, laboratories in Berlin, Darmstadt, and Lübeck, and a branch office in Trier. In the field of innovative commercial software technology using artificial intelligence, DFKI is the leading research center in Germany.

Based on application-oriented basic research, DFKI develops product functions, prototypes, and patentable solutions in the field of information and communication technology. Research and development projects are conducted in 27 research departments, ten competence centers, and eight living labs. Funding is received from government agencies like the European Union, the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF), the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Climate Action (BMWK), the German Federal States, and the German Research Foundation (DFG), as well as from cooperation with industrial partners. Twice a year, a committee of internationally renowned experts (Scientific Advisory Board) audits the progress and results of state-funded projects.

The company is headquartered in Kaiserslautern. The management consists of the two executive directors, Prof. Antonio Krüger (CEO) and Helmut Ditzer (CFO), and the site managers of Bremen, Kaiserslautern, Lower Saxony (Oldenburg/Osnabrück), and Saarbrücken.

DFKI conducts contract research in virtually all fields of modern AI, including image and pattern recognition, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation, deduction and multi-agent systems, speech- and language technology, intelligent user interfaces, business informatics and robotics. DFKI led the national project Verbmobil, a project with the aim to translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese.

There are different research departments.

• Embedded Intelligence (Paul Lukowicz)
• Augmented Vision (Didier Stricker)
• Innovative Factory Systems (Martin Ruskowski)
• Intelligent Networks (Hans Dieter Schotten)
• Smart Data & Knowledge Services (Andreas Dengel)
• Data Science & its Applications (Sebastian Vollmer)

• Cognitive Assistants (Antonio Krüger)
• Institute for Information Systems (Peter Loos)
• Agents and Simulated Reality (Philipp Slusallek)
• Multilinguality and Language Technology (Josef van Genabith)
• Smart Service Engineering (Wolfgang Maaß)
• Neuro-Mechanistic Modeling (Verena Wolf)

• Robotics Innovation Center (Frank Kirchner)
• Cyber Physical Systems (Rolf Drechsler)

• Interactive Textiles (Gesche Joost)
• Intelligent Analytics for Massive Data - Smart Data (Volker Markl)
• Speech and Language Technology (Sebastian Möller)
• Educational Technology Lab (Niels Pinkwart)

• Plan-Based Robot Control (Joachim Hertzberg)
• Smart Enterprise Engineering (Oliver Thomas)

• Marine Perception (Oliver Zielinski)
• Interactive Machine Learning (Daniel Sonntag)

• AI in Biomedical Signal Processing (Alfred Mertins)
• AI in Medical Imaging (Heinz Handels)
• Stochastic Relational AI in Healthcare (Ralf Möller)

• Systems Artificial Intelligence (Kristian Kersting)
• Systems AI for Robot Learning (Jan Peters)
• Systems AI for Decision Support (Carsten Binnig)

• CLAIRE, a European organization on artificial intelligence
• Artificial intelligence
• Glossary of artificial intelligence

• Official website
• Professor Wolfgang Wahlster Profile

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