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Andreas Birk's Homepage

Mailing Address:

Prof. Dr. Andreas Birk 
Jacobs University Bremen
Campus Ring 1
28759 Bremen, Germany
 

Phone, Fax, Email:

Phone: +49-421-200.3113
Fax: +49-421-200.3103

a.birk AT jacobs-university.de
 

Office Location:

Building Research 1, Room 39
Campus Ring 12
28759 Bremen

directions for visitors

Research Interests

In respect to my research interests I am a split-personality . On the one hand, I am interested in a scientific question which is purely basic research, namely the constructive understanding of intelligence. On the other hand, I have got a strong interest in engineering, especially in robotics and computer architecture, and I am interested in research that leads to concrete applications. I do not think that these two things contradict each other. In contrary, generating in the long term a machine with human-like intelligence is imho to a large extent an engineering challenge.
 

Ongoing Projects

An overview of my activities is given at the research part of the Jacobs University Robotics group website. I started the group in September 2001 with the very beginning of research and teaching activities at Jacobs University. Its main focus of research is on Autonomous Systems. The expertise ranges from the development of embedded hardware over mechatronics and sensors to high-level software. On the basic research side of autonomous systems, machine learning and cooperation are core themes. The systems developed at Jacobs University are used in various domains including rescue robots and underwater robots.

Selected Previous Projects (before Jacobs University)

Publications

A selection of my "recent" publications, i.e., from Fall 2001 on, can be found on the Jacobs University Robotics publications page. My older publications from before Fall 2001, i.e., my time before Jacobs University, can be found on a separate page. Please follow the two links.

My Erdös-number seems to be 3, namely via my PhD-advisor Wolfgang J. Paul who has 2 as he published with several Erdos-number 1 people (Fan Ron King (Graham) Chung, Maria Margaret Klawe, Endre Szemeredi, and William Thomas Trotter Jr.).

 

IUB renamed Jacobs University