On 17.11.2021, the well-known physicist and neurobiologist Prof. Dr Christoph von der Malsburg was guest at the CAI.

Malsburg studied physics and did his PhD at CERN in Geneva. His research interests are pattern recognition in the brain, dynamic binding of neural units (connectivity), neural networks and computer vision. After his PhD, he spent 17 years at the Max Planck Institute in Göttingen. In 1988, he became Professor of Computer Science at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles, and in 1990, additionally, Professor of Systems Biophysics at the Institute for Neuroinformatics at the Ruhr University Bochum.  Since 2007 he has been a Senior Fellow at the Frankfurt Institute for Advanced Studies.  He has founded two successful spin-offs and received a number of international awards.

At the CAI Colloquium, he spoke about the recent successes of AI and Deep Learning, highlighting, in particular, the difference between machine and human learning processes, such as the obviously many times greater need for "training data" required by neural networks. He combined this with ideas, to further improve machine learning and AI for the future and making them more efficient.

In addition to the lecture at the CAI Colloquium, there was plenty of time for in-depth discussions with the CAI staff. Further contacts and exchange on relevant research topics are planned for 2022.