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Wolfgang Wahlster is a Professor of Artificial Intelligence
in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Saarbruecken, Germany and the
Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He received his
diploma and doctoral degree in computer science and computational linguistics from the
University of Hamburg. Since 1975 he has been working in the field as a principal
investigator in various intelligent user interface projects, including HAM-ANS, XTRA,
VITRA, PHI, RAP and WIP, PPP and AiA. He has published more than 150 technical papers on
man-machine communication. His current research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces, user modeling, natural language scene description, intelligent help systems, speech translation and auto-adaptive web presentations. Since 1993 he is the Scientific Director of the VERBMOBIL project on spontaneous speech translation. Prof. Wahlster is on the editorial boards of various international journals and book series such as Artificial Intelligence, Applied Artificial Intelligence, User Modeling and User-adapted Interaction. He is an AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the Fritz Winter Award, one of the most prestigious awards for engineering sciences in Germany, for his research on cooperative user interfaces. In 1995 he received the ITEA (Information Technology European Award, the highest recognition in European Computer Science) of the European Academies of Engineering (Euro-Case) for his work on WIP, a plan-based multimodal presentation system. In 1998 he has been awarded the degree of Doctor Honoris Causa by the Institute of Technology at Linkoeping University, Sweden. He serves as a Trustee of IJCAII and a member of the Executive Board of the AI section of the German Informatics Association (GI). Prof. Wahlster was the Conference Chair for IJCAI-93 in Chambery, the Chair of the Board of Trustees of IJCAII from 1991 - 1993, the ECAI-96 Programme Chair and the Programme Co-Chair of ACL/EACL-97. He is currently the Chair of ECCAI, the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence and the Vice-President of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL). He is the Co-Editor of the Readings in Intelligent User Interfaces. Recent PublicationsW. Wahlster (1993): "Planning Multimodal Discourse", Proc. ACL-93, 95-96 W. Wahlster, E. Andre, W. Finkler, H.-J. Profitlich, T. Rist (1993): "Plan-Based Integration of Natural Language and Graphics Generation", Artificial Intelligence 63, 387-427 W. Wahlster, E. Andre, W. Graf, T. Rist (1991): "Knowledge-Based Media Coordination in Intelligent User Interfaces", In: E. Ardizzone, S. Gaglio, F. Sorbello, eds.: Trends in Artificial Intelligence: Proc. of the 2nd Congress of the Italian Association for Artificial Intelligence W. Wahlster, E. Andre, W. Finkler, W. Graf, H.-J. Profitlich, T. Rist, A. Schauder (1992): "WIP: Integrating Text and Graphics Design for Adaptive Information Presentation", In: R. Dale, E. Hovy, D. Rösner, O. Stock, eds.: Aspects of Automated Natural Language Generation: Proc. of the 6th International Workshop on Natural Language W. Wahlster (1991): "User and Discourse Models for Multimodal Communication", In: J.W. Sullivan, S.W. Tyler, eds.: Intelligent User Interfaces, New York, acm press, 45-67 Contact InformationProf. Wolfgang Wahlster, Ph.D. |
