Degrees

- Diploma (Dipl.-Ing.) 1967, TH Darmstadt, W. Germany
- M.S. 1968, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
- Ph.D. 1971, MIT, Cambridge, Mass.
Dissertation: "The Capacity of Gaussian Feedback Channels with Memory"
(Supervisors: P. Elias, R. Gallager, MIT)

Employment

9/71 - 5/82
Dozent (assistant professor) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg

since 3/86
Universitätsprofessor (full professor) at the Department of Computer Science, University of Hamburg
head of the research group "Cognitive Systems"

since 10/88
head of the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, University of Hamburg

since 10/90
scientific director of MAZ GmbH, Hamburg

Professional affiliations

- member of GI, ACM, AAAI, IEEE
- 10/85 - 10/88: chairman of the committee "Artificial Intelligence and Pattern Recognition"
(German national AI society)
- Member of the Scientific Advisory Board for DFKI (German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence)
- Chairman of IFIP TC-12 "Artificial Intelligence"

Major research projects

- development of an experimental system for image sequence analysis (1971 - 1975)
- recognition of partially occluded objects (1976 - 1977)
- 3D reconstruction from multiple views (1977 - 1981)
- natural language description of image sequences (1981 - 1984)
- natural language consultation dialogue (joint industrial project WISBER)
- expert system shell for configuration problems (joint industrial project TEX-K 1986 - 1990)
- high-level motion prediction and image sequence analysis (1984 - 1992)
- reasoning about physical systems (joint projects BEHAVIOR and PROKON since 1991)
- knowledge based aerial image interpretation (since 1991)
- technical drawing interpretation (1990 - 1993)
- technology transfer of innovative diagnosis methods (joint project INDIA 1995 - 1999)
- contents-based web information retrieval (project  BAND)
- High-level scene interpretation (project CogVis 2001 - 2004)