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Rainer Malaka

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	TZI, University of Bremen
	Bremen
	Germany

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Prof. Dr. Rainer Malaka is Professor for Digital Media since April 2006. Before his move to
Bremen, he headed the research department of the European Media Laboratory (EML). Dr.
Malaka joined EML in 1997 where he started a research group that worked on projects dealing
with mobile assistance systems, language understanding, geographical information systems, and
computer vision. He managed and directed a number of research projects that were conducted in
cooperation with various national and international institutes and companies. Rainer Malaka
started his academic career as a scientist at the University of Karlsruhe with work on neural
networks and did research on modeling the learning mechanisms in biological brains. The focus of
Dr. Malaka’s work is intelligent mobile systems. He initiated the workshop series AIMS (AI in
Mobile Systems), is member of the PC of a number of international conferences (e.g., IUI:
Intelligent User Interface, UbiComp, Web-Based Communities, Smart Graphics, MDM: Mobile
Data Management, etc.). He is also steering board member of the Interdisciplinary College for
multiple years, a multidisciplinary international spring school on cognitive science, neurosciences
and AI. Rainer Malaka is also member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Location Based
Services, the International Journal of Multimedia and Ubiquitous Engineering, and the
International Journal of Web Based Communities (IJWBC). Dr. Malaka received several awards
for his scientific work: the distinguished paper award of IUI, the Klaus Tschira award for
Understandable Science, and the Research and Innovation Award of the Rhein-Neckar Foundation.
Dr. Malaka served as an Expert for the European Commission for multiple objectives such as
Multimodal Interfaces, Disappearing Computer, and Cognitive Systems. With his team, he was
member of the EU-Projects ATTRACT, CRUMPET, MUSIC, and AgentCities. At the University
of Bremen, he started and directs a Graduate College on “Advances in Digital Media” funded by
the Klaus Tschira Foundation. He is member of the Collaborative Research Center (SFB) 637
Autonomous Control of Logistic Processes with a sub-project on knowledge management and agent systems.

[1] Aras H., Siegel, S. and Malaka, R. (2010) "Semantic Cloud: An Enhanced Browsing Interface
for Exploring Resources in Folksonomy Systems," in Workshop on Visual Interfaces to the Social
and Semantic Web (VISSW2010), Feb. 2010.
[2] Kozuhovskij, S., Szmidt, P., Hemken, B., Paul, J., Karayel, M., Riemann, S., Jacob, M. Cohrs,
C., Molnar, A., Trees, J., Schönke, L., Davydenkova, D., Stöhlmacher, E. Chandrapalan, S.,
Krannich, D., Schröder-Kroll, R. and Malaka, R. (2010) "Morph! - AN INTERACTIVE
APPROACH TO TRANSFORM BUILDINGS TO LIFE," Special Issue on Interactive Systems of
the International Journal of Computing, 2010.
[3] Teichert, J., Herrlich, M., Walther-Franks, B., Schwarten, L., Feige, S., Krause, M., and
Malaka, R. (2010). Advancing Large Interactive Surfaces for Use in the Real World. Advances in
Human-Computer Interaction, May 2010, pp. 1–11. [open access journal]