Work
Engineering
I work as the Chief Engineer for the Division of Intelligent Systems (DIS) at the Department for Computer and Information Science (IDI) of the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
As the division's engineer, I do technical support for our research infrastructure. I am the system administrator for some of our computer systems and keep an eye on the computer labs. One of my projects for the time being is trying to motivate the other group members to put some actual content on the upcoming release of our division webpages while I keep the underlying system running and modify it to fit our special needs.
Teaching
In autumn 2006, I assist in the course on knowledge representation, IT3706. See the course pages for details on schedule, literature, and so on.
Research
In my second life, I do research on usage aspects of intelligent systems. I try to understand how intelligent artefacts fit into human work processes, and describe methods for the development of intelligent artefacts which take socio-technical issues into account. I particularly look at Case-Based Reasoning type of systems, a lazy learning technique which solves new problems by using and adopting solutions to older problems which the system has seen before.
I joined the former Artificial Intelligence and Learning-group at NTNU (which became a part of DIS later) in 2000 as a research fellow. Until February the same year, I was working at the Carl von Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany. I was a member of the (now defunct) process control and robotics-group at the department of informatics.
My main interests were in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Fuzzy Systems and theire applications in autonomous robotics and pattern recognition.
Before that, I studied informatics, psychology and philosophy at the Carl von Ossietzky University. I graduated with the german degree of Diplom-Informatiker.
Research-wise, you are probably most interested in my publications, for other information take a look at the different sections of this site or my blog. Enjoy.