Rudi Studer
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Rudi Studer is a German
computer scientist and professor at KIT
, Germany
. He is the head of the knowledge management
research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). He is former president of the Semantic Web Science Association, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards. He was one of the inaugural editor-in-chiefs of the Journal of Web Semantics
, a position he held until 2007. He is a co-author of the Semantic Wikipedia proposal.
He obtained a degree (1975) and a PhD (1982) in Computer Science
at the University of Stuttgart
. From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at IBM
Germany, Institute of Knowledge Based Systems. November 1989 he became professor in Karlsruhe
. Since then, he led his research group to become one of the world leading institutions in Semantic Web
technology, and he played a leading role in establishing highly acknowledged international conferences and journals in this area.
Rudi Studer is also director in the department Information Process Engineering at and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center
for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH
that develops semantic applications. He is a former member of the L3S Learning Lab Lower Saxony in Hannover.
He is a member of AAAI, ACM
, IEEE, IFIP Working Group on Databases (WG 2.6), and German Informatics Society (GI).
His current research interests span over the main topics important for Semantic Web technology, including knowledge management, knowledge engineering
, discovery
and learning, ontology management
, data and text mining
, semantic web services, and peer-to-peer
systems.
Germans
The Germans are a Germanic ethnic group native to Central Europe. The English term Germans has referred to the German-speaking population of the Holy Roman Empire since the Late Middle Ages....
computer scientist and professor at KIT
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, Germany
Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
. He is the head of the knowledge management
Knowledge management
Knowledge management comprises a range of strategies and practices used in an organization to identify, create, represent, distribute, and enable adoption of insights and experiences...
research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Research Institute (KSRI). He is former president of the Semantic Web Science Association, and a member of numerous programme committees and editorial boards. He was one of the inaugural editor-in-chiefs of the Journal of Web Semantics
Journal of Web Semantics
The Journal of Web Semantics is an interdisciplinary peer-reviewed scientific journal published by Elsevier. It covers knowledge technologies, ontology, software agents, databases and the semantic grid, information retrieval, human language technology, data mining, and semantic web development. The...
, a position he held until 2007. He is a co-author of the Semantic Wikipedia proposal.
He obtained a degree (1975) and a PhD (1982) in Computer Science
Computer science
Computer science or computing science is the study of the theoretical foundations of information and computation and of practical techniques for their implementation and application in computer systems...
at the University of Stuttgart
University of Stuttgart
The University of Stuttgart is a university located in Stuttgart, Germany. It was founded in 1829 and is organized in 10 faculties....
. From 1985 to 1989 he was project leader and manager at IBM
IBM
International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas...
Germany, Institute of Knowledge Based Systems. November 1989 he became professor in Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
. Since then, he led his research group to become one of the world leading institutions in Semantic Web
Semantic Web
The Semantic Web is a collaborative movement led by the World Wide Web Consortium that promotes common formats for data on the World Wide Web. By encouraging the inclusion of semantic content in web pages, the Semantic Web aims at converting the current web of unstructured documents into a "web of...
technology, and he played a leading role in establishing highly acknowledged international conferences and journals in this area.
Rudi Studer is also director in the department Information Process Engineering at and one of the presidents of the FZI Research Center
Forschungszentrum Informatik
FZI Forschungszentrum Informatik is a non-profit research institute for applied research in computer science, established in 1985. It is associated with, but independent of, the University of Karlsruhe in Germany....
for Information Technologies at the University of Karlsruhe as well as co-founder of the spin-off company ontoprise GmbH
Ontoprise GmbH
The ontoprise GmbH is a provider of Semantic Web infrastructure technologies and products used to support dynamic semantic information integration and information management processes at the enterprise level. Its primary place of business is located at Karlsruhe, Germany.-History:The company was...
that develops semantic applications. He is a former member of the L3S Learning Lab Lower Saxony in Hannover.
He is a member of AAAI, ACM
Association for Computing Machinery
The Association for Computing Machinery is a learned society for computing. It was founded in 1947 as the world's first scientific and educational computing society. Its membership is more than 92,000 as of 2009...
, IEEE, IFIP Working Group on Databases (WG 2.6), and German Informatics Society (GI).
His current research interests span over the main topics important for Semantic Web technology, including knowledge management, knowledge engineering
Knowledge engineering
Knowledge engineering was defined in 1983 by Edward Feigenbaum, and Pamela McCorduck as follows:At present, it refers to the building, maintaining and development of knowledge-based systems...
, discovery
Knowledge discovery
Knowledge discovery is a concept of the field of computer science that describes the process of automatically searching large volumes of data for patterns that can be considered knowledge about the data . It is often described as deriving knowledge from the input data...
and learning, ontology management
Ontology (computer science)
In computer science and information science, an ontology formally represents knowledge as a set of concepts within a domain, and the relationships between those concepts. It can be used to reason about the entities within that domain and may be used to describe the domain.In theory, an ontology is...
, data and text mining
Data mining
Data mining , a relatively young and interdisciplinary field of computer science is the process of discovering new patterns from large data sets involving methods at the intersection of artificial intelligence, machine learning, statistics and database systems...
, semantic web services, and peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer
Peer-to-peer computing or networking is a distributed application architecture that partitions tasks or workloads among peers. Peers are equally privileged, equipotent participants in the application...
systems.