New Year Reception 2020 - 10 influential minds in German AI history

The selection of the ten AI minds was preceded by a three-week open nomination phase, during which more than 80 people were proposed from which the jury had to choose. Persons who had already died were excluded.

Prof. Dr. Dieter Fellner, Chairman of the Fraunhofer ICT Group and #KI50 jury member: "I was immediately inspired by the idea of publicly recognizing the achievements of German researchers in the history of artificial intelligence. At a time when people almost automatically look to America when it comes to groundbreaking technological breakthroughs, it is all the more important to show that a large proportion of the research work on today's number one trend topic has been carried out in Europe and also in Germany. The ten award winners are all role models for the young researchers of today who will ensure that Germany is an important location for innovation in the future".

The 10 influential minds in German AI history

Elisabeth André (Human-Machine Interaction, Multi Agent Systems)
Wolfgang Bibel (Representation of knowledge and conclusions)
Susanne Biundo-Stephan (Planning)
Gerhard Brewka (knowledge representation and conclusions)
Otthein Herzog (expert systems, applications)
Bernhard Nebel (knowledge representation and conclusions, planning)
Bernhard Schölkopf (machine learning)
Jörg H. Siekmann (Representation of knowledge and conclusions)
Wolfgang Wahlster (Human-Machine Interaction, Dialogue Systems)
Stefan Wrobel (Machine Learning)

The reasons for the selection as well as further information about the #KI50 jury can be found at: www.ki50.de.

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