Thomas Eiter#
© Nadja-Meister
| Membership Number: | 4204 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | INFORMATICS |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | AUSTRIA |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.kr.tuwien.ac.at/staff/eiter |
Present and Previous Positions
- 2004, 01, Head of the Institute of Information Systems at TU Wien
- 1998, 10, Full Professor (of knowledge-based systems, computer science) at TU Wien
- 1996, 10, Professor (C3, associate professor) at the University of Gießen, Germany
- 1995, 04, Univ.-Dozent (associate professor) at the Technical University of Vienna
- 1991, 05, Univ.-Assistent (research and teaching assistant, assistant professor from 1992, 01)
- 1990, 01, Vertragsassistent (research assistant) at TU Wien
- 1990–1996 Collaborator in the Christian Doppler Laboratory for Expert
- Systems (sponsored by Austrian Indistries)
- 1999–2004 Vice-director of the Ludwig Wittgenstein Laboratory for Information Systems (sponsored by the Austrian Ministry of Education, Science and Art)
Fields of Scholarship
- Artificial intelligence
- Knowledge representation and reasoning
- Computational logic
- Computer science
- Discrete applied mathematics
Honours and Awards
- 2013 Prominent Paper Award 2013 of the Artificial Intelligence Journal (AIJ)
- 2013 Test of Time Award (10 years) of the International Conference on Logic Programming (ICLP) 2013, Cork, Ireland
- 2012 Vienna Content Award 2012 / Smart Cities section (award for innovative applications in digital media by the City of Vienna)
- 2011 Best Paper Award 11th International Conference on Logic Programming and Nonmonotonic Reasoning (LPNMR 2011), Vancouver, Canada
- 2007 Elected Corresponding Member of the Austrian Academy of Sciences, cf. http://www.oeaw.ac.at/en/austrian-academy-of-sciences
- 2006 Elected Fellow of the European Association for Artificial Intelligence (formerly European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence), cf. https://www.eurai.org/
- 2006 Best Paper Award of the 3rd European Conference on Semantic Web (ESWC 2006), Budva, Montenegro
- 2002 Distinguished Paper Award of the 18th National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2002), Edmononton, Canada
- 2001: Distinguished Paper Award of the 17th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI 2001), Seattle, USA
- 1999: Invention of the Year 1999 Finalist, University of Maryland, College Park, USA
