Albrecht Schmidt (computer scientist)
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Albrecht Schmidt | |
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| Born | October 15, 1970 Crailsheim, Germany |
| Alma mater | University of Ulm |
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| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Human-Computer Interaction, Ubiquitous Computing, |
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| Thesis | Ubiquitous Computing - Computing in Context (2002) |
| Doctoral advisor | Hans-Werner Gellersen |
| Website | albrecht-schmidt |
Albrecht Schmidt (born 1970) is a computer scientist best known for his work in ubiquitous computing, pervasive computing, and the tangible user interface. He is a professor at LMU Munich where he joined the faculty in 2017.
Professional career
Albrecht Schmidt received an M.Sc. in computing from Manchester Metropolitan University (UK) in 1996. His master thesis was on modular neural networks. In 1997, he finished his master's degree in computer science at the University of Ulm (Germany). As a research assistant Schmidt was working towards a PhD at Telecooperation Office (TecO), University of Karlsruhe (Germany) from 1998 to 2001. He continued his study at Lancaster University[1] (UK) to finish his PhD. Schmidt's PhD thesis was titled Ubiquitous Computing - Computing in Context. Schmidt transferred to LMU Munich (Germany) in 2003, where he led the Emmy-Noether Research Group 'Embedded Interaction'. He was appointed professor for applied computer science/media informatics at the University of Bonn and simultaneously served as department manager at the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis and Information Systems (IAIS). From October 2007 to December 2010, he took the position as chair for pervasive computing[2] at University of Duisburg-Essen. From January 2011 to August 2017, Schmidt directed the 'Human-Computer Interaction' research group[3][4] at the Institut für Visualisierung und Interaktive Systeme at University of Stuttgart. Since October 2017, he has been the head professor of the research group 'Human Centered Ubiquitous Media Group' at the Department of Computer Science at LMU Munich.
Recognition
Schmidt was elected to the CHI Academy in 2018[5] and to the German National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina in 2020.[6] In 2023, Schmidt received the recognition of being named a Fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[7]
