Katharina Morik

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Katharina Morik (born 1956) [1] is a retired German computer scientist specializing in machine learning and data mining, focusing on green computing in machine learning. She is the former chair for artificial intelligence at the TU Dortmund University. [2]

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Education and career

Morik completed a doctorate (Dr. rer. nat.) in 1981 at the University of Hamburg, with the dissertation Validierung von Überzeugungssystemen der künstlichen Intelligenz vor dem Hintergrund linguistischer Theorien über implizite Äußerungen supervised by Walther von Hahn. [3]

After habilitating at Technische Universität Berlin in 1988, she became the founding chair of artificial intelligence at the TU Dortmund University in 1991. She retired in 2023. [2]

Recognition

Morik was named to acatech, the German National Academy of Science and Engineering, in 2015. [4] She has been a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and the Arts since 2016. [5] In 2019 she was elected as a fellow of the German Informatics Society. [6]

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References

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  2. 1 2 "Prof. Dr. Katharina Morik", Lamarr Institute for Machine Learning and Artificial Intelligence, TU Dortmund University, retrieved 2024-03-10
  3. Katharina Morik at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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