German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (German: Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) is one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes for software technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) methods. DFKI was founded in 1988, and has facilities in the German cities of Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Lübeck, Oldenburg, Osnabrück, Bremen, Darmstadt and Berlin.

DFKI shareholders include Google, Microsoft, SAP and Daimler.^[1] The directors are Antonio Krüger (CEO) and Helmut Ditzer (CFO).

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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.

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)

a European organization on artificial intelligence