Dr. Wolfgang Wahlster received a diploma and doctoral degree in Computer Science from the University of Hamburg, Germany. He is now Professor of Artificial Intelligence and Database Systems and head of the AI Laboratory at the University of Saarbrucken where he currently serves as a Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI). He has published more than 150 technical papers on man-machine communication. His current research includes intelligent multimodal interfaces, user modeling, natural language scene description, intelligent help systems, and deductive plan recognition speech translation. He is an AAAI Fellow and a recipient of the Fritz Winter Award, one the most prestigious awards for engineering sciences in Germany.
