Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence


The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence is an Austrian non-profit contract research institute. OFAI is a research institute of the Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies, a registered scientific society founded in 1969.

History

The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence was founded in 1984 with support from the Austrian Federal Ministry for Science and Research. Since its inception, OFAI has been headed by its director, Prof. Robert Trappl.

Research

Currently, 28 specialists, mainly computer scientists and linguists, all graduates from universities, work as employees at OFAI, plus 9 scientists, mainly professors at universities, on a contractual base. OFAI basic and applied research is performed in several areas of Artificial Intelligence, most notably: