On this page you will find information about the participants of this programme. At this time only descriptions of presenting organizations is available. Please read these and check back on September 1 for an updated list of participants.

TNO

TNO was established by law in 1932 to support companies and governments with innovative, practicable knowledge. As a statutory organization TNO has an independent position that permits it to provide objective, scientifically-founded recommendations to the Dutch government and other representatives of the Dutch people.

Today, TNO is a knowledge organization for companies, government bodies and public organizations. The daily work of approximately 5,400 employees is to develop and apply knowledge. The organization also provides contract research and specialist consultancy as well as grants licenses for patents and specialist software. TNO tests and certifies products and services, and issues an independent evaluation of quality. Moreover, TNO sets up new companies to market innovations.

Areas of expertise for AMI projects
Multimodal information retrieval, natural language processing, computer vision, human factors, HCI, audio analysis, user-centered design, usability testing, group decision making, computer supported collaborative work.

DFKI

The German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (Deutsches Forschungszentrum für Künstliche Intelligenz GmbH  also known as DFKI GmbH) is Germany´s leading research center in the area of innovative software technology for commercial application.

In the international scientific community, DFKI is recognized as one of the most important "Centers of Excellence" in the world for its proven ability to rapidly bring leading edge research to commercially relevant application solutions. DFKI handles Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in an elegant and straightforward way: Results of contract research projects belong to the contractor.

DFKI was founded in 1988 as a nonprofit organization by several renowned German ICT companies and two research facilities. Since then, DFKI GmbH has established a reputation for proactive and customer oriented work and is known both nationally and internationally as a competent and reliable partner for commercial innovation.

Currently, DFKI has 274 employees and 225 student assistants working in its facilities in Kaiserslautern, Saarbrücken, Bremen and a project office in Berlin. The circle of DFKI industrial partners includes, among others, Daimler AG, Deutsche Telekom AG, SAP AG, IDS Scheer AG, Bertelsmann AG, Microsoft Deutschland GmbH, Deutsche Post AG and BMW AG. In 2007, the circle has been expanded, adding the participation of Deutsche Messe AG, EADS Astrium GmbH and Ricoh Ltd.

see http://www.dfki.de for more information

Head There

HeadThere Corporation is a startup company based in San Francisco, USA.  The founders have developed patent-pending hardware and software technology in the mobile telepresence space that has applications across multiple markets including assisted living care, remote worker communications and connection to difficult-to-access facilities such as clean rooms, quarantined areas, warehouses and overseas facilities.  The company has a working prototype of a remotely controlled device called the “Giraffe,” a human-height physical avatar integrated with a videoconferencing system that can be accessed via a simple laptop interface over the Internet.  A remote person with no prior training can navigate the Giraffe down hallways, through doorways and around tables and chairs, look around via a pan/tilt/zoom camera, and be seen and heard in real time via a life-size portrait image from their own webcam.  The remote person can even adjust the Giraffe’s height to “sit” at a table or bedside.  The device can be manufactured in volume for under $1,000 and will support an initial retail price in the targeted markets of about $5,000.  The company has seed funding, has trial commitments already in place with several assisted living and Fortune 500 corporations and is currently seeking $2 million in Series A funding.

see www.headthere.com for more information

Researchers

Participating researchers' profiles will appear in this area on September 1, 2008.

Community of Interest members

The names of AMI COI members who will be attending the AMI Knowledge and Know How Transfer day will appear in this area on or after September 1, 2008.

Friends of AMI

Friends of AMI are also welcome to attend the Knowledge and Know How Transfer day.