he German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (German: Deutsches Forschu ngszentrum fr Knstliche Intelligenz, DFKI) is one of the

world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes in the field of innovative software technology bas ed on artificial intelligence (AI) methods. DFKI was founded in 1988, and has fa cilities in the German cities of Kaiserslautern, Saarbrcken, Bremen and Berlin. DFKI shareholders include Microsoft, SAP, BMW and Daimler.[1] The current direct ors are Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (CEO) and Dr. Walter G. Olthoff (CFO). Contents 1 Research 2 Branches 2.1 Kaiserslautern 2.2 Saarbrcken 2.3 Bremen 2.4 Berlin 3 Notes 4 External links Research Currently, there are more than 116 ongoing projects at the research center. DFKI conducts contract research in virtually all fields of modern AI, including imag e and pattern recognition, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and s imulation, deduction and multi-agent systems, speech- and language technology, i ntelligent user interfaces, business informatics and robotics. DFKI led the nati onal project Verbmobil, a project with the aim to translate spontaneous speech r obustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese. Branches There are different research departments.[2] Kaiserslautern Knowledge Management (headed by Prof. Dr. Andreas Dengel) Augmented Vision (Prof. Dr. Didier Stricker) Innovative Factory Systems (Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Zhlke) Integrated Communication Systems (Prof. Dr. Paul Mller) Saarbrcken Innovative Retail Laboratory (Prof. Dr. Antonio Krger) Institute for Information Systems (Prof. Dr. Peter Loos) Agents and Simulated Reality (Prof. Dr. Philipp Slusallek) Language Technology (Prof. Dr. Hans Uszkoreit) Intelligent User Interfaces (Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Wolfgang Wahlster) Bremen Robotics Innovation Center (Prof. Dr. Frank Kirchner) Cyber Physical Systems (Prof. Dr. Rolf Drechsler) Berlin Project Office for Language Technology (Prof. Dr. Ha