Wolfgang Bibel is a German scientist and one of the founders of the research area of Artificial Intelligence

Artificial intelligence

Artificial intelligence is the intelligence of machines and the branch of computer science that aims to create it. AI textbooks define the field as "the study and design of intelligent agents" where an intelligent agent is a system that perceives its environment and takes actions that maximize its...

 in Germany. Until 2004 he was the head of the intellectics research group at the computer science department of the Darmstadt University of Technology

Darmstadt University of Technology

The Technische Universität Darmstadt, abbreviated TU Darmstadt, is a university in the city of Darmstadt, Germany...

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Career

Wolfgang Bibel was born in Nuremberg

Nuremberg

Nuremberg[p] is a city in the German state of Bavaria, in the administrative region of Middle Franconia. Situated on the Pegnitz river and the Rhine–Main–Danube Canal, it is located about north of Munich and is Franconia's largest city. The population is 505,664...

, Germany

Germany

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. He was educated as a Mathematician, obtaining a diploma in Mathematics in 1964 from Ludwig-Maximilian University in Munich

Munich

Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...

 and a PhD

PHD

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 in Mathematical Logic in 1968, also from Ludwig-Maximilian University.

Honours and awards

• Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence
  The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence or AAAI is an international, nonprofit, scientific society devoted to advancing the scientific understanding of the mechanisms underlying thought and intelligent behavior and their embodiment in machines...
  
   fellow
• European Artificial Intelligence Organization ECCAI
  ECCAI
  The European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence is the representative body for the European Artificial Intelligence community. Its aim is to promote study, research, and applications of AI in Europe...
  
   fellow
• Gesellschaft für Informatik fellow
• IJCAII Donald E. Walker Distinguished Service Award recipient
• IFIP Silver Core winner
• Herbrand Award winner
• CADE Inc Award winner

External links

• Wolfgang Bibel web page