Körber Prize 2019 for Bernhard Schölkopf

Bernhard Scholkopf, director of the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tbingen, Germany, has been honored with the Korber Prize for European Science 2019. Bernhard Schölkopf, director at the Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems in Tübingen, Germany, is honored with the Körber Prize for European Science 2019. The Körber Foundation awards the prize to honor the computer scientist's contributions to machine learning, which today supplies one of the most important methods of Artificial Intelligence (AI). The Körber Prize includes prize money of one million Euros. Artificial Intelligence opens up new opportunities in ever more areas of day-to-day life: "AI is in play when a smartphone group stores photos according to faces and topics such as holidays," Schölkopf explains.