Intelligent Solutions for the Knowledge Society

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, with sites in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen (with an associated branch in Osnabrück) and a project office in Berlin, is the leading German research institute in the field of innovative software technology. In the international scientific community, DFKI ranks among the most recognized "Centers of Excellence" and currently is the biggest research center worldwide in the area of Artificial Intelligence and its application in terms of number of employees and the volume of external funds.

The DFKI management consists of Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c mult. Wolfgang Wahlster (Technical and Scientific Director and CEO) and Dr. Walter Olthoff (CFO).

The current projects are carried out in the DFKI research departments Knowledge Management (Prof. Dr. Prof. h.c. Andreas Dengel) Cyber-Physical Systems (Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler) Robotics Innovation Center  (Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner) Innovative Retail Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Antonio Krüger) Institute for Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Peter Loos) Embedded Intelligence (Prof. Dr. Paul Lukowicz) Agents and Simulated Reality (Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek) Augmented Vision (Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker) Language Technology (Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit) Intelligent User Interfaces (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster) Innovative Factory Systems (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Zühlke)   DFKI is cooperationg closely with the scientific environment at the respective sites.

DFKI is the only German research institute for Computer Science being a member in the three leading research clusters and the co-founder of Software Campus.