Curriculum Vitae
Born at 2th February 1953, Saarbrücken, Germany
Education |
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| 1972 | Graduation from Max-Planck Gymnasium, Delmenhorst (summa cum laude) |
| 1972 - 1977 | Student of Computer Science (Major) and Theoretical Linguistics (2nd Major) at the University of Hamburg, Germany |
| 1977 | Diploma degree in Computer Science/Theoretical Linguistics at the University of Hamburg (summa cum laude) |
| 1981 | Doctorate in Computer Science at the University of Hamburg (summa cum laude) |
Professional Experience |
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| 1978 - 1981 | Postdoctoral Research Associate in the project HAM-RPM at the University of Hamburg (Principal Investigator: Prof. W. v.Hahn) |
| 1981 - 1993 | Project Leader and Principal Investigator of the project HAM-ANS at the University of Hamburg |
| 1982 | Tenured Associate Professor of Computer Science at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
| 1984 - present | Tenured Full Professor of Computer Science at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
| 1984 | Full Professorship at the University of Karlsruhe offered, declined |
| 1985 | Full Professorship at the University of Hamburg offered, declined |
| 1987 | Visiting Professor at the University of California, Berkeley |
| 1988 - present | Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Saarbrücken |
| 1993 - 2000 | Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the Verbmobil Project on speech-to-speech translation |
| 1996 - present | Director and CEO of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI GmbH) in Saarbrücken and Kaiserslautern |
| 1999 - 2003 | Scientific Director and Principal Investigator of the SmartKom Project Consortium on intelligent multimodal dialog systems |
| 2000 - present | Joint Appointment in the Department of Computational Linguistics at the Saarland University, Saarbrücken |
| 2004 - present | Scientific Director of the SmartWeb Consortium on mobile multimodal access to semantic web services |
Honors and Awards (Selection) |
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| 1972 - 1977 | Scholarship of the German National Merit Foundation, that is granted to 0.25% of the German student population(http://www.studienstiftung.org/) |
| 1991 | Fritz Winter Award for „seminal technical contributions to natural language dialog systems“ |
| 1993 | AAAI Fellow, elected for „pioneering work in the development of dialog systems, and outstanding service to the artificial intelligence community“ |
| 1995 | Information Technology European Award for „WIP – a plan-based generation system for adaptive multimedia presentations“ (see: http://www.it-prize.org/) |
| 1998 | Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the Institute of Technology at Linkoeping University, Sweden. |
| 1999 | ECCAI Fellow, elected for „significant and sustained contributions to the field of artificial intelligence (AI) in Europe“ |
| 2000 | Karl Heinz Beckurts Award „for pioneering and sustained scientific contributions to language technology and intelligent user interfaces and for the transfer of these results into industrial applications“ |
| 2001 | Second
Honorary Doctorate from Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany 2001 German Future Prize - German's highest scientific prize -, presented by the President of Germany, Dr. Johannes Rau for outstanding innovations in language technology and intelligent user interfaces" |
| 2002 | Second German Computer Scientist elected Full Member of the German Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz |
| 2003 | First German computer scientist elected Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm |
| 2004 | Elected Full Member of the German
Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina Appointed Saarland Ambassador by Prime Minister Peter Müller Elected GI Fellow |
Professional Activities (Selection) |
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| 1982 | Program Chair of the 6th German Conference on AI, GWAI-82, Bad Honnef |
| 1984 - 1985 | Department Chair, Department of Computer Science, Saarland, Saarbrücken |
| 1986 - 1988 | Chair of the German AI Association (GI/KI) |
| 1991 - 1993 | Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII, International Joint Conferences on Artificial Intelligence |
| 1991 | Chair of the Association of German AI Institutions |
| 1992 | General Chair of IJCAI-93, Chambery, France |
| 1996 | Program Chair of the European Conference on AI, ECAI-96, Budapest |
| 1996 - 2000 | Chair of ECCAI, the European Coordination Committee for Artificial Intelligence |
| 1997 | Program Co-Chair of the ACL/EACL Conference, Madrid |
| 2000 | President of the Association for Computational Linguistics |
Member of the Editorial Board of the following journals: Artificial Intelligence, Annals of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, Cognitive Science Quarterly.
Chair of the Scientific Advisory Committee of the OFFIS Institute, a member of the Scientific Board of IRST, the International Advisory Board of NICI, the Scientific Advisory Committee of the Swedish Information Technology Institute (SITI, Stockholm, Sweden), the Japanese Cyber Assist Research Center (CARC, Tokyo, Japan), the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA, Paris, France), and the Board of Trustees of the International Computer Science Institute (ICSI, Berkeley, USA).
Invited speaker or keynote speaker at major international meetings: COLING-84, Stanford, COLING-92, Nantes, EuroSpeech-93, Berlin, MT Summit-93, Kobe, ACL-93, Ohio, ECAI-94, Amsterdam, UM-94, Hyannis, AI-94, Armidale, EACL-95, Dublin, IFIP-96, Canberra, BISFAI-97, Ramat Gan, EACL-99, Bergen, Agents-99, Seattle, IUI-99, Los Angeles, MICAI-2000, Acapulco, IJCAI-01, Seattle, AH-2002, Malaga, IFIP World Congress 2002, Montreal