1966-1967 General Studies at
the Leibniz Kolleg, Universitaet Tuebingen
1967-1969 Studies of
Electrical Engineering at the Universitaet Stuttgart
1969-1970 Studies of
Informatics at the Universitaet Karlsruhe
1979-1972 Studies of Informatics
and Mathematics at the Universitaet Bonn,
Diploma
(MSc) in Applied Mathematics and Informatics
1976 Dr. rer.nat. from the Informatics
Department, Universitaet Dortmund
1977 - 1993 with IBM in several technical and
managerial positions in
international software product development and research. His projects included
mainframe operating systems, quality assurance (DOS/VSE and Unix),
communications software, full-text information retrieval systems (IBM
SearchManager), CIM repository systems, and a system for environmental impact
analysis for the EXPO 2000.
1985 to 1991 Head of the IBM Institute for
Knowledge-based Systems in the Scientific Center of IBM Germany, numerous AI
research projects, the most important one being LILOG - Natural Language
Processing and Text Understanding.
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.
2000 - 2002 CTO at Lenze AG, responsible for hardware and
software development.
1993 - 2009 Chair for Artificial Intelligence in the
Department
of Mathematics and Computer
Science at the Universitaet Bremen heading the Artificial Intelligence
Research Group.
since 2009 supervising many PhD students,
directing research projects, and acquiring new projects at Universitaet Bremen
since 2010 “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 Centers "VisComX
- Visual Communication and Expertise" and the “Humanities Research
Center”
His current research interests at TZI/Universitaet Bremen include:
·
Multi-agent
systems for modeling and simulating autonomous processes and integration of
heterogeneous data sources, e.g., for production and logistics networks,
·
Data mining
and knowledge discovery techniques with applications in, e.g., network
security, and dynamic knowledge management in autonomous processes.
·
Mobile,
wearable and ubiquitous computing for industrial and end user applications in
production, logistics, maintenance, healthcare, and for first responders,
·
Automatic
content analysis and annotation of still images, videos and sound for
content-driven multimedia archiving, retrieval, and video abstracting.
Within the Universitaet Bremen, Dr. Herzog continues to contribute to the
interdisciplinary activities of the
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the LogDynamics - Bremen
Research Cluster for Dynamics in Logistics,
·
the Graduate
School Advances in Digital Media,
·
the International
Graduate School for Dynamics in Logistics,
·
the International Max Planck Research
School of Marine Microbiology, and
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Embedded Microsystems Bremen (EMB).
His current research interests at Jacobs
University Bremen as a faculty member of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences
include:
·
Automated
semantic analysis of videos in cooperation with Prof. Peter Ludes, Mass
Communications
· Informatics for the
Humanities.
Dr. Herzog is a Fellow of acatech – the German
National Academy of Science and Engineering, where he is a
• member of the Executive Committee with
the portfolio “International Relations” and
• Vice Coordinator of the acatech Topical
Network “Information and Communication Technology”
Dr. Herzog is also a Fellow of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik, and member of the DAGM and
the ACM.
He also serves as
• Trustee and chairman of the
Board of Trustees of the Fraunhofer Institute for Applied Information Technology (FIT),
Birlinghoven,
• member
of the IFIP Board of the GI - Gesellschaft für Informatik.
• member of the Advisory Board
of InES -Institute for Enterprise Systems, an
interdisciplinary Research Institute for Enterprise Systems at the University
of Mannheim,
• member
of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Excellence Cluster “Intelligent Technical Systems Ostwestfalen-Lippe”
Here
you will find a recent list of his Publications.
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