Dr. Otthein Herzog,
Professor emeritus
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.
His current research interests 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),
·
the LogDynamics - Bremen Research
Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics,
·
the International
Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics,
·
the International Max Planck Research School of
Marine Microbiology, and
·
Embedded Microsystems Bremen (EMB).
He is also a member of the Research Cluster
"Visual Communication and Expertise" at the Jacobs University Bremen, and since 1999 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 Academy of
Science and Engineering, and he serves as
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Coordinator of
the acatech Topical
Network “Information and Communication Technology”
·
Trustee and chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for
Applied Information Technology (FIT), Birlinghoven,
·
Trustee and chairman
of the Board of Trustees of the IT
Science Center Rügen,
·
Member of the
Board of FIB
- Fiber International Bremen e.V.,
·
Member of the
Advisory Board of collexis Ltd.
Dr. Herzog is a Fellow of the GI -
Gesellschaft für Informatik where he serves also on the GI IFIP Board, and
member of the DAGM and the ACM.
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Dr. Otthein Herzog |
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