Stephan Baumann
I did a lot of different things over the years but there are basically two big hearts inside of me: some people say I am so rational, so logic while others just enjoy my craziness and ad-hoc creativity. Maybe I am not an expert in one discipline or school of thought. I am not a pure left brainer or right brainer. I am somehow in-between. If you take a look at my CV, the projects and body of work you hopefully get a better feeling about the man behind this virtual bubble.I regret nothing so far, each and every step was necessary and even that it was often hard work most of the time at least parts of myself really enjoyed being immersed into research, spinoff companies, music and combinations of them. After being two times involved into transfering AI research from DFKI's labs to market -1997 (Insiders document recognition) and 2004 (Sonicson music search)-, I am happy to be back full-time into research.
The Music Information Retrieval Community gave me a warm home and I am still happy that I finally defended my Ph.D about Artificial Listening Systems in march, 2005. Although being still very active in this area I am looking forward to stretch and push the boundaries within my new position as head of the Competence Center Computational Culture.
Pervasive communication everywhere, a melting pot of different media types, smallest-scale devices, digital auras, ambient cultural environments, etc. .. There is enough space to be explored!
Research interests
Computational Culture, Interface Culture, Music Information Retrieval, Pervasive Communication, Smartmobs, HCI, Joy of Use, Beauty of Design, Simplicity, New Media, Transmedia, Media Arts.Contact
Dr. rer. nat. Stephan BaumannHead of Competence Center Computational Culture
German Research Center for AI
Trippstadterstr. 122
67657 Kaiserslautern
phone 0049-631-20575-150
mail stephan.baumann[at]dfki.de
web http://www.dfki.uni-kl.de/~baumann
blog http://www.computationalculture.org