German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence
The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence is one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes for software technology based on artificial intelligence methods. DFKI was founded in 1988, and has facilities in the German cities of Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin.
DFKI shareholders include Google, Microsoft, SAP and Daimler. The directors are Antonio Krüger and Walter G. Olthoff.Research
DFKI conducts contract research in virtually all fields of modern AI, including image and pattern recognition, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation, deduction and multi-agent systems, speech- and language technology, intelligent user interfaces, business informatics and robotics. DFKI led the national project Verbmobil, a project with the aim to translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese.Branches
There are different research departments.Kaiserslautern
