Dr. Otthein Herzog, Professor
Dr. Herzog started out to study Computer
Science at the Universitaet Karlsruhe in summer 1969 and received his diploma
in Applied Mathematics and Informatics from the Universitaet Bonn in 1972. He
received his PhD from the Informatics Department of the Universitaet Dortmund
in 1976.
From 1977 to 1993 he worked with IBM where he
held several technical and managerial positions in international software
product development and research. His projects included mainframe operating
systems, quality assurance (DOS/VSE and Unix, 1977-1984), communications
software, full-text information retrieval systems (IBM SearchManager), CIM
repository systems, and a system for environmental impact analysis (1991-1993).
From 1985 to 1991 he directed the Institute for Knowledge-based Systems in the
Scientific Center of IBM Germany, where he headed numerous AI research
projects, the most important one being LILOG - Natural Language Processing and
Text Understanding.
From March 2000 to February 2002, Dr. Herzog
was on leave from the university and held the CTO position at Lenze AG where he was responsible for hardware
and software development.
From 1993 to 2009, Dr. Herzog held the chair on
Artificial Intelligence in the Department
of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Universität Bremen and headed the Artificial Intelligence
Research Group. He continues to supervise PhD students, to direct research
projects, and to acquire new projects.
His current research interests at
TZI/Universitaet Bremen include:
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Mobile,
wearable and ubiquitous computing for industrial and end user applications in
production, logistics, maintenance, healthcare, and for first responders,
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Knowledge
Management including spatial and temporal knowledge, e.g., for determining the
context in Ubiquitous Computing, and for logistics applications,
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Multi-agent
systems, modeling and verification of flexible work flow processes and
integration of heterogeneous data sources, e.g., for information logistics
networks,
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Data mining
and knowledge discovery techniques with applications in, e.g., network
security, and dynamic knowledge management in autonomous logistics processes.
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Automatic
content analysis and annotation of still images, videos and sound for
content-driven multimedia archiving, retrieval, and video abstracting,
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Innovative
vision systems for, e.g., quality control and underwater robots.
Within the Universität Bremen, Dr. Herzog
continues to contribute to the interdisciplinary activities of the
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Collaborative Research Center
637 "Autonomous Cooperating Logistic Processes" (SFB 637), which
is funded by the German Research
Foundation (DFG),
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the LogDynamics - Bremen Research
Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics,
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the Graduate
School Advances in Digital Media,
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the International
Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics,
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the International Max Planck Research School of
Marine Microbiology, and
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Embedded Microsystems Bremen (EMB).
In June 2010 he was appointed “Wisdom Professor
for Visual Information Technologies” at Jacobs University Bremen, School of
Humanities and Social Sciences, where he is also a founding member of the
Research Center "VisComX
- Visual Communication and Expertise".
Since 1998 he is an
affiliate professor at the George Mason
University, Machine Learning and
Inference Laboratory, formerly directed by the late Dr. Ryszard Michalski,
and now by Dr. Janusz Wojtusiak.
Dr. Herzog is a member of acatech – the German National Academy of
Science and Engineering, and he serves as
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Member of the
Executive Committee on International Affairs and Vice Coordinator of the
acatech Topical
Network “Information and Communication Technology”
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Trustee and
chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied
Information Technology (FIT), Birlinghoven,
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Member of the
IFIP Board of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik.
Dr. Herzog is a Fellow of the GI -
Gesellschaft für Informatik, and member of the DAGM and the ACM.
Here you will find a list of his Publications.
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Dr. Otthein Herzog |
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