Dr.
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
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Member of acatech – the German Academy of Engineering
and Science,
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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.
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Dr. Otthein Herzog |
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TZI - FB 3 28334 Bremen, Germany |
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