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| key_people      = Director [[Robert Trappl|Prof. Robert Trappl]]<br>[[Paolo Petta]]<br>[[Harald Trost]]<br>[[Gerhard Widmer]]<br>[[Brigitte Krenn]]
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The '''Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence''' ([[German language|German]]: '''Ö'''sterreichisches '''F'''orschungsinstitut für '''A'''rtificial '''I'''ntelligence - '''OFAI''') is an Austrian non-profit contract [[research institute]]. OFAI is a research institute of the [[Austrian Society for Cybernetic Studies]] (Österreichische Studiengesellschaft fuer Kybernetik - OSGK), a registered [[scientific society]] founded in 1969.<ref name="1-akportal" />
==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|Artificial Intelligence]], most notably:<ref name="1-acm" />
* [[Language Technology]]
* Interaction Technologies
* [[Neural Computation]] and [[Robotics]]
* Intelligent Music Processing and [[Machine Learning]]
* Intelligent Software Agents and New Media
* AI and Society.
==External links==
* [http://www.ofai.at Official website of the institute]
==References==
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<ref name="1-akportal">{{citation|url=http://www.portal.ac.at/owa/portal.details_en?ogn_id_in=1626 |accessdate=2012-11-04 |title=Akademisches Portal Österreich |work=Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (ÖFAI) |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20060809024356/http://www.portal.ac.at/owa/portal.details_en?ogn_id_in=1626 |archivedate=2006-08-09 }}</ref>
<ref name="1-acm">{{citation |url=http://dl.acm.org/inst_page.cfm?id=1032530 |accessdate=2012-11-04 |title=ACM Digital Library |work=Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence}}</ref>
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