News

2012-02-22-23: OFAI, together with TU Vienna, coorganize the 5th International Conference on Cognitive Systems CogSys2012
2012-02-01: Start of the FWF-Project "Preventing Hubness in Music Information Retrieval (Hubology)" with Arthur Flexer as project leader.
2012-01-01: Start of the ZIT "From Science to Products" project "quiew - Entwicklung eines multidomainf�higen Online-Bewertungs- und Feedbacksystems" with Brigitte Krenn and Johannes Matiasek as scientific collaborators.
2011-12-31: Flagship Projects of the EU: OFAI scientists involved in the preparation of three flaghsips: Robert Trappl in "Human Brain Project (HBP)", Neurorobotics Pillar, at present leader of three workpackage tasks; "Robots as Companions (RoboCom)" with Paolo Petta leading the sub-group on "Emotion and Personality" of the "Mind" working group, plus Brigitte Krenn and Sabine Payr; "Future ICT (FutureICT)" with Marcin Skowron in the preparatory group.
2011-12-01: "Fourth International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling (ICIDS) in Vancouver, Canada: Paolo Petta co-organised the ICIDS 2011 Workshop: "Sharing IDS technologies"; short paper: Szilas N., Boggini T., Axelrad M., Petta P., Rank S.: Specification of an Open Architecture for Interactive Storytelling.
2011-10-22: TEDx Vienna: Presentation "Are we sheep when we dream of electric androids?" by Robert Trappl
2011-10-01: Start of the EU-Project "Roadmap for Music Information Research (MIRES)", Coordination and Support Action, lead by Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain, OFAI's contribution carried out by Gerhard Widmer and Arthur Flexer
2011-09-14: Brigitte Krenn gives the talk "Speak to me and I tell you who you are! A language-attitude study in a cultural-heritage application" at the workshop "Culturally Motivated Virtual Characters" co-locted with IVA2011
2011-08-31: FFG-Project "Computers for UserInnen (C4U)" with Brigitte Krenn as leader and cooperating scientists Stephanie Schreitter, Gregor Sieber and Sabine Payr successfully completed.
2011-07-31: EU-Project "Learning for Security (L4S)" with Paolo Petta as leader,Sabine Payr, Bernhard Jung, Christoph Hermann, Laszlo Kiraly, Ali Nikrang-Mofad and Heiner Micko as cooperating scientists successfully completed.
2011-07-14-15: Brgitte Krenn gives the invited talk "Social Companions" at the "RoboCom Body and Tools Workshop" in Munich.
2011-07-01: "Social Engagement with Robots and Agents": Special Issue of "Applied Artificial Intelligence: An International Journal" with Special Issue Editor Sabine Payr published.
2011-06-09-10: Brigitte Krenn invited talk on "Virtual Butlers, Artificial Companions, Robot Collaborators." at the Round Table Research Retreat "Implanted Smart Technologies" in Prag
2011-04-11: "Cognition for Technical Systems (CoTeSys)" Workshop at the Technical University of Munich, Invited Presentation "Cognitive Agents and Robots: Also Emotional and Social?" by Robert Trappl.
2011-03-05: Robert Trappl elected Full Member of the "European Academy for Sciences and Arts".
2011-02-28: EU-Project "Social Engagement with Robots and Agents (SERA)" with Sabine Payr as coordinator and Stefan Rank, Paolo Petta, Brigitte Krenn and Gregor Sieber as cooperating scientists, all of OFAI, sucessfully completed.
2011-01-26: Brigitte Krenn presented the talk "Vitalmonitoring mit VitaSmart: Eine Erweiterung zu Beko's. HOMEBUTLER" at the 4. Deutscher AAL-Kongress, Berlin, 25.-26. 1. 2011.
2011-01-21: The Language Technology group of OFAI organizes the First Workshop on Modelling of Dialects and Language Varieties, to be held in conjunction with the 2011 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP) in Edinburgh, UK on July 31, 2011.
2011-01-01: Start of the project "Machine Learning Techniques for Modeling of Language Varieties", in cooperation with the University of Edinburgh and the Austrian Academy of Sciences, sponsored by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF).
2010-11-18: Robert Trappl elected Vice-President of the Science Conference Austria, for a two-year period
2010-11-10: Brigitte Krenn invited guest speaker on engineering of intelligent artefacts at the Science and Technology Options Assessment (STOA) Conference at the European Parliament on "Making Perfect Life. Bio-engineering in the 21st century"
2010-09-14: Sabine Payr presents a paper, resulting from the EU-project "Social Engagement with Robots and Agents (SERA)" which she coordinates, at the 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) in Viareggio, Italy
2010-09-10: Gregor Sieber and Brigitte Krenn present a paper on "Towards an episodic memory for companion dialogue" at the 10th International Intelligent Virtual Agents Conference (IVA) in Philadelphia, USA
2010-08-09: Robert Trappl appointed Honorary Fellow of the American Society for Cybernetics (ASC)
2010-05-01: Start of 2 projects: "Expert Seeking Support System (ExpertSeek), in cooperation with ATC Consultants GmbH (ATC) and partially sponsored by the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG), and "Ontology-based Information Extraction and Search (OREX)" in cooperation with Web Integration IT Service GmbH and partially funded by the Bridge Program of FFG and FWF
2010-04-06 to 09: 20th European Meeting on Cybernetics and Systems Research at the University of Vienna (EMCSR 2010), with papers by 212 authors from 30 countries, worldwide, organised by OFAI and chaired by Robert Trappl. Among the 13 Symposia were four of them chaired or co-chaired by Ernst Buchberger, Gerhard Chroust, Brigitte Krenn, Paolo Petta, and Sabine Payr, all of OFAI
2010-02-22: Robert Trappl is invited speaker at the Festsymposium in Honor of the 90th Birthday of Prof. Dr. Heinz Zemanek at the Deutsches Museum, Munich, with the presentation "From Cybernetic Machines to Emotional and Social Robots"
2010-01-01: Start of two projects: "Audiominer - Mathematical Signal Analysis and Modeling for Manipulation of Sound Objects", sponsered by the Vienna Science and Technology Fund (WWTF), and "Feasibility Study: Interactive Entertainment of Elder Persons with Intelligent and Emotional Personality Agents", partially sponsored by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Transport, Innovation and Technology (BMVIT)
2009-12-14: Festveranstaltung ("Anniversary Celebration") anlässlich 25 Jahre OFAI und 40 Jahre OSGK in der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Programm als PDF.
2009-11-13: Stefan Rank, Researcher at OFAI since 2004, graduates to Dr. techn. in the Presence of the Federal President of the Republic of Austria ("promotio sub auspiciis praesidentis rei publicae"). This special graduation where also a special ring is given to the new Dr. techn. by the President, is awarded to students who passed all exams with the best possible marks.
2009-10-19: Gerhard Widmer is awarded the "Wittgenstein-Preis", the most prestigious scientific award in Austria. The sum of 1.5 Mio Euro for research during the next 5 years comes with this award. Gerhard Widmer is head of OFAI's Intelligent Music Processing and Machine Learning Group and professor at the University of Linz, Austria.