News

2009-12-14

Festveranstaltung ("Anniversary Celebration") anlässlich 25 Jahre OFAI und 40 Jahre OSGK in der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften. Programm als PDF und als DOC. Anmeldung unter sec@ofai.at erforderlich.

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.

2009-09-01

"Companions für Userinnen (C4U)", a FEMtech FTI project, funded by the Federal Ministry of Transport, Innovation, and Technology, starts at OFAI.

2009-07-01

"Learning for Security (L4S)", a multinational project, supported by the EC, begins at OFAI.

2009-03-04

MAGNIFICENT is awarded the prize for the best proposal of the 2008 FIT-IT Semantic Systems call. [pictures of the ceremony]

2009-03-01

MAGNIFICENT ("Multifaceted Analysis of News Articles for Intelligent User- and Context-Sensitive Presentation"), a joint research project with Bronner Online AG, supported by FIT-IT, starts at OFAI.

2009-02-01

"Collective Emotions in Cyberspace (CYBER-EMOTIONS)", another multinational project, supported by the EC, begins at OFAI.

2009-01-01

Two multinational projects in the 7th Framework Programme of the European Commission begin at OFAI: "Integrating Research in Interactive Storytelling (IRIS)" and "Social Engagement with Robots and Agents (SERA)", SERA being coordinated by OFAI's Sabine Payr.

2008-11-21

Robert Trappl receives the Wiener-Schmidt-Award 2008 of the German Society of Cybernetics, Berlin.

2008-09-27 and 28

Two-day Workshop "Your Virtual Butler: Prerequisites for its Development" held at OFAI, with participants from Austria, Canada, Germany, Italy, the UK, and the USA