The rise of autonomous systems will change the world

Harald Sack is Professor for Information Services Engineering at two of the most renowned research institutions in Europe: FIZ Karlsruhe and AIFB. He is a part of SEMANTiCS' research and innovation track program committee as well as of the conference's permanent advisory board. His publications include more than 130 papers in international journals and conferences and three standard textbooks on networking technologies. In this interview he speaks about the limited capabilities of search engines, the necessity of data being open and the coffee culture in Vienna. You have been working in many research areas such as semantic web technologies, knowledge representations, multimedia analysis & retrieval.