Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz (DFKI), lit. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, is one of the world's largest nonprofit contract research institutes in the field of innovative software technology based on artificial intelligence (AI) methods.
DFKI was founded in 1988. Today it is based in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and Berlin.
Companies figuring among the DFKI-shareholders include Microsoft, SAP, BMW and Daimler.
DFKI conducts contract research in virtually all fields of modern AI, including image and pattern recognition, knowledge management, intelligent visualization and simulation, deduction and multi-agent systems, speech- and language technology, intelligent user interfaces, business informatics and robotics.
DFKI led the national project Verbmobil, a project with the aim to translate spontaneous speech robustly and bidirectionally for German/English and German/Japanese.
Currently, there are more than 116 ongoing projects at the research center.
The current directors are Prof. Wolfgang Wahlster (CEO) and Dr. Walter G. Olthoff (CFO).
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