Dieter Fensel (born 10 October 1960, in

Nuremberg Nuremberg ( ; german: link=no, Nürnberg ; in the local East Franconian dialect: ''Nämberch'' ) is the second-largest city of the German state of Bavaria after its capital Munich, and its 518,370 (2019) inhabitants make it the 14th-largest ...

) is a German researcher in the field of

formal language In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to a specific set of rules. The alphabet of a formal language consists of symb ...

s and the semantic web. He is University Professor at the

University of Innsbruck The University of Innsbruck (german: Leopold-Franzens-Universität Innsbruck; la, Universitas Leopoldino Franciscea) is a public research university in Innsbruck, the capital of the Austrian federal state of Tyrol, founded on October 15, 1669. ...

, where he directs the Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck), a research center associated with the university.

Biography

Fensel studied mathematics, social science and computer science at Berlin, and received his doctorate in economics in 1993, studying under Dr

Rudi Studer Rudi Studer (born 1951 in Stuttgart) is a German computer scientist and professor emeritus at KIT, Germany. He served as head of the knowledge management research group at the Institute AIFB and one of the directors of the Karlsruhe Service Res ...

at the

University of Karlsruhe The Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT; german: Karlsruher Institut für Technologie) is a public research university in Karlsruhe, Germany. The institute is a national research center of the Helmholtz Association. KIT was created in 2009 w ...

. (Title: ''Die Wissen-Erfassungs- und Repräsentationssprache KARL''). In 1998 he received his habilitation and started work at the Institute for Applied Computer Science and Formal Description Procedures (AIFB), focusing, inter alia, on

knowledge management Knowledge management (KM) is the collection of methods relating to creating, sharing, using and managing the knowledge and information of an organization. It refers to a multidisciplinary approach to achieve organisational objectives by making ...

and

Formal language In logic, mathematics, computer science, and linguistics, a formal language consists of words whose letters are taken from an alphabet and are well-formed according to a specific set of rules. The alphabet of a formal language consists of symb ...

s. Subsequently he worked as an assistant professor at

University of Amsterdam The University of Amsterdam (abbreviated as UvA, nl, Universiteit van Amsterdam) is a public research university located in Amsterdam, Netherlands. The UvA is one of two large, publicly funded research universities in the city, the other being ...

, and as a professor at

NUI Galway The University of Galway ( ga, Ollscoil na Gaillimhe) is a public research university located in the city of Galway, Ireland. A tertiary education and research institution, the university was awarded the full five QS stars for excellence in 201 ...

(

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) (2003–2006) and at the

. He was hired by

to direct the

Digital Enterprise Research Institute The Digital Enterprise Research Institute (DERI) is a former research institute at NUI Galway. It is now part of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics. Insight was established in 2013 by Science Foundation Ireland with funding of €75m. DERI's ...

(DERI); he resigned this position after a dispute with

Science Foundation Ireland Science Foundation Ireland (SFI; ga, Fondúireacht Eolaíochta Éireann) is the statutory body in Ireland with responsibility for funding oriented basic and applied research in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM ...

over whether he could be reimbursed for chartered aircraft, used to simplify the otherwise-complicated travel connections between Galway and Innsbruck. Since 2003 he has also been the director of DERI Innsbruck, which in December 2007 was renamed to Semantic Technologies Institute Innsbruck (STI Innsbruck). Fensel was the founding director of the Semantic Technology Institute International (STI2). He is one of five founders of seekda spin-off company of STI Innsbruck.Semantic Technology Institute about seekda
Retrieved 29 November 2007) Fensel has published numerous articles in technical periodicals, has been giving keynote speeches Invited speakers at Web Intelligence 07 Conference
/ref> and co-organized conferences. He has been and is involved in several national and international research projects such as LarKc,

SOA4All The Framework Programmes for Research and Technological Development, also called Framework Programmes or abbreviated FP1 to FP9, are funding programmes created by the European Union/European Commission to support and foster research in the Europea ...

and Insemtives.

Bibliography

* Dieter Fensel: ''The Knowledge Acquisition and Representation Language KARL,'' Kluwer Academic Publisher, Boston, 1995 * Dieter Fensel: Problem-Solving Methods: ''Understanding, Development, Description, and Reuse, Lecture Notes on Artificial Intelligence (LNAI),'' no 1791, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2000 * Dieter Fensel: Ontologies: ''Silver Bullet for Knowledge Management and Electronic Commerce,'' Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2001 * Dieter Fensel, Borys Omelayenko, Ding Ying: ''Intelligent Information Integration in B2B Electronic Commerce,'' Kluwer, 2002 * John Davies, Dieter Fensel, Christoph Bussler, Rudi Studer (Editors): ''Towards the Semantic Web: Ontology-Driven Knowledge Management,'' Wiley, 2002 * Dieter Fensel, John Davies (Editors): ''Spinning the Semantic Web,'' MIT Press, Boston, 2003 * Dieter Fensel, Katia Sycara,

John Mylopoulos John Mylopoulos (born 12 July 1943) is a Greek-Canadian computer scientist, Professor at the University of Toronto, Canada, and at the University of Trento, Italy. He is known for his work in the field of conceptual modeling, specifically the deve ...

(Editors): ''The Semantic Web. ISWC 2003,'' Springer-Verlag, 2004 * Dieter Fensel, Umutcan Şimşek, Kevin Angele,

Elwin Huaman Elwin may refer to: *Elwen, Cornish saint *Elwin, Illinois, United States, an unincorporated community *Hastings Elwin (1776-1852), British-Australian politician *Whitwell Elwin (1816 -1900), British clergyman and editor *Maurice Elwin (1896–1975 ...

, Elias Kärle, Oleksandra Panasiuk, Ioan Toma, Jürgen Umbrich and Alexander Wahler: Knowledge Graphs - Methodology, Tools and Selected Use Cases, Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 2020

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