OH-wenige Pixel.jpgDr. Otthein Herzog

Dr. Herzog majored in Applied Mathematics and Informatics at the Universität Bonn in 1972, and received his PhD from the Informatics Department of the Universität Dortmund in 1976. From 1977 on he worked with IBM for sixteen years 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 spent two years in industry again holding the CTO position at Lenze AG.

Since 1993, Dr. Herzog holds a chair on Artificial Intelligence in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the Universität Bremen and heads the Artificial Intelligence Research Group. He directs there

  • the TZI - Center for Computing Technologies concentrating on  Mobile Solutions, Digital Reality, and Adaptive Communication, a research and technology transfer center based on informatics and communication systems with more than 160 full-time researchers,
  • the Mobile Research Center with twenty-four Bremen research groups and 170 researchers in Mobile and Wearable Computing,
  • the mobile solution group GmbH managing the Mobile Solutions Center and marketing Mobile Solutions to industry,
  • the association OFFIS-TZI e.V., the largest ICT research institute in Germany.

 

His current research interests include:

  • Mobile, wearable and ubiquitous computing for industrial and end user applications in production, logistics, maintenance, healthcare, and for first responders,
  • Knowledge Management including spatial and temporal knowledge, e.g., for determining the context in Ubiquitous Computing, and for Geographic Information systems,
  • Automatic diagnosis and configuration of complex hardware/software systems for industrial applications,
  • Multi-agent systems, modeling and verification of flexible work flow processes and integration of heterogeneous data sources, e.g., for information logistics networks,
  • Data mining and knowledge discovery techniques, e.g., in RoboCup, network security, and dynamic knowledge management in autonomous logistics processes,
  • Automatic content analysis and annotation of still images, videos and sound for content-driven multimedia archiving, retrieval, and video abstracting,
  • Innovative vision systems for, e.g., quality control and underwater robots.

 

The AI Research Group is integrated in the TZI - Center for Computing Technologies of the Universität Bremen, which was established by Dr. Herzog in 1995. The TZI has won international reputation for its research, technology development, and technology transfer in the areas of mobile and wearable system solutions, media networking and multimedia analysis, content management and retrieval, and in networking technologies. The TZI projects balance well basic research and subsequent technology transfer. For university courses, publications, and projects, please see the web pages of the TZI Intelligent Systems Department and the TZI Image Processing Group.
Within the Universität Bremen, Dr. Herzog contributes to the interdisciplinary activities of the 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, Embedded Microsystems Bremen (EMB), and the Center for Cognitive Sciences.

 

Dr. Herzog also serves as 

·         Member of acatech – the German Academy of Engineering and Science,

·         Trustee and chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT), Birlinghoven,

·         Member of the Board of FIB - Fiber International Bremen e.V.,

·         Chairman of the Board of OFFIS-TZI e. V.,

·         Member of the Board of Directors of the Bremer Design GmbH,

·         Member of the Advisory Board of collexis Ltd.


Dr. Herzog is a Fellow of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik, and member of the DAGM, the ACM, and the IEEE Computer Society. He also serves on the GI IFIP Board.


Address:

Prof. Dr. Otthein Herzog

 

TZI - FB 3
Universität Bremen
P.O. Box 33 0440

28334 Bremen, Germany 

Office:

Am Fallturm 1, 28359 Bremen

Phone: 

+49-421-218-7090

Fax:

+49-421-218-7196

E-Mail: 

herzog(at)tzi.de