Robert Trappl is an Austrian scientist, and Professor at the Center for Brain Research, Medical University of Vienna

Medical University of Vienna

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, Austria, known for his work in the field of cybernetics

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 and Artificial Intelligence

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Biography

In the 1960s in Vienna

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 Trappl received a degree in electrical engineering

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, a degree in sociology

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 from the Institute for Advanced Studies

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 in Vienna, and PhD

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 in psychology, with a minor in astronomy

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Since the 1970s he has been working at the Medical University of Vienna

Medical University of Vienna

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, Austria. Since the 1980s he is the director of the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI), and later on also the head of the Institute of Medical Cybernetics

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 and Artificial Intelligence at the Medical University of Vienna, Austria. Beside his work at the University he has advized several national and international companies and organizations.

In the 1970s he was President of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, Austria. In this position in 1980 he co-founded the International Federation for Systems Research

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(IFSR) of which he became vice-president and from 1986 to 1988 president.

Trappl is also Editor-in-Chief of the scientific journals "Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal" and "Cybernetics and Systems: An International Journal", and on the board of several other journals.

Publications

Trappl has published over 180 articles and cooperated in some 34 books. A selection:

• 1992. Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence, Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
• 1997. Creating Personalities for Synthetic Actors, Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
• 2001. (eds)Multi-Agent Systems and Applications, Heidelberg/New York: Springer.
• 2003. Emotions in Humans and Artifacts, MIT Press.
• 2004. Agent Culture. Human-Agent Interaction in a Multicultural World, Lawrence Erlbaum.
• 2005. Wissenschaft und Medizin, 3rd ed., Vienna: Facultas.
• 2006. Cybernetics and Systems 2006, 2 vols. Vienna: ASCS.
• 2006. Programming for Peace: Computer-Aided Methods for International Conflict Resolution and Prevention, Dordrecht, NL: Springer, .

External links

• Trappl's homepage at the Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI)
• Robert Trappl Business Card with picture