Wolfgang Wahlster

From IRF 2008

Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster is the Director and CEO of DFKI, the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and a Professor of Computer Science at Saarland University.

Professor Wahlster received his diploma and doctoral degree in computer science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He has published more than 170 technical papers and seven books on language technology and intelligent user interfaces. He serves on a number of international advisory boards, and is a member of the supervisory boards of various IT and VC companies.

Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster is an AAAI Fellow, an ECCAI Fellow and a GI Fellow. In 1991, he received the Fritz Winter Award and, in 1995, an IST Prize. In 1998, he was awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Institute of Technology at Linköping University, Sweden. In 2001, he received a second Honorary Doctorate from Darmstadt University of Technology in Germany.

In 2001, the President of the Federal Republic of Germany presented the German Future Prize to Professor Wahlster for his work on language technology and intelligent user interfaces. He has also been elected to four international academies and learned societies.

In 2002, Professor Wahlster was elected full member of the German Academy of Sciences and Literature, Mainz. And he was the first German computer scientist elected foreign member of the Royal Swedish Nobel Price Academy of Sciences. In 2004, he was elected full member of the German Academy of Natural Scientists Leopoldina, founded in 1652, and of acatech, the Council for Engineering Sciences at the Union of the German Academies of Science and Humanities.