PeopleofSuperintelligence

Researcher

Georg Gottlob

Georg Gottlob is a computer scientist whose work connects artificial intelligence, logic and database systems. He studied technical mathematics and computer science at TU Wien, earned a doctorate in logic in 1981, and became a professor there in 1988. His earlier work included Lixto, DLV and DIADEM; he won the 1998 Wittgenstein Prize and served as an IJCAI trustee and program chair. He became a Royal Society Fellow in 2010, won the BCS Lovelace Medal in 2017, and received a Royal Society Research Professorship and a University of Vienna honorary doctorate in 2020. He joined the University of Calabria as a professor at the end of 2023 and is Professor of Computer Science there, with emeritus roles at Oxford and TU Wien; in February 2026, he discusses whether AI can emulate human thought in an interview.

Now at
TU Wien, University of Oxford and University of Calabria
Works
525
Citations
20,067
h-index
69

Publication numbers from OpenAlex, as of 14 October 2026.

Photo of Georg Gottlob

Timeline

  1. 1981–1988

    Studies and first professorship

    He studies technical mathematics and computer science at TU Wien and earns a doctorate in logic and computer science in 1981. After positions in Milan, Genoa and Stanford, he becomes a professor at TU Wien in 1988.

  2. 1998

    Wittgenstein Prize and IJCAI

    He wins the Wittgenstein Prize for information systems and artificial intelligence in 1998. He serves as an IJCAI trustee from 1999 to 2005 and chairs the program committee for IJCAI-03.

  3. 2006

    Lixto and DLV systems

    He moves from TU Wien to Oxford in 2006. His Lixto system extracts data from websites, and he coauthors a 2006 account of the DLV system for knowledge representation and reasoning.

  4. 2009

    A DIADEM research grant

    In 2009, he receives an ERC Advanced Investigator Grant for DIADEM, a project he leads to automate web data extraction.

  5. 2010

    A Royal Society fellowship

    He is elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2010.

  6. 2017

    The Lovelace Medal

    BCS names him the 2017 winner of the Lovelace Medal.

  7. 2020

    A Royal Society research professorship

    In 2020, he receives a Royal Society Research Professorship. The University of Vienna awards him an honorary doctorate in 2020.

  8. 2023–2026

    Professor at Calabria

    He becomes a professor at the University of Calabria at the end of 2023 and is Professor of Computer Science there, with emeritus roles at Oxford and TU Wien. In February 2026, he gives an interview as an Unical computer science professor on whether AI can emulate human thought.

Sources and credits

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  1. Georg Gottlob, Univ.-Prof. Dr. | 650 plus geschichte.univie.ac.at. Checked 14 October 2026.
  2. Prof. Georg Gottlob wechselt nach Oxford | TU Wien tuwien.at. Checked 14 October 2026.
  3. Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford: Georg Gottlob : Publications cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  4. Wittgenstein Awards | TU Wien tuwien.at. Checked 14 October 2026.
  5. IJCAI Trustees | IJCAI ijcai.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  6. Marta Kwiatkowska and Georg Gottlob awarded European Research Council (ERC) Advanced Investigators Grants cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  7. OUCL receives Amazon Web Services Research Grant cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  8. Professor Georg Gottlob elected Fellow of the Royal Society cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  9. Georg Gottlob honoured with Lovelace Medal cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  10. Professor Georg Gottlob awarded Royal Society Research Professorship cs.ox.ac.uk. Checked 14 October 2026.
  11. Unical, il ministro dell’Università e lo scienziato in arrivo da Oxford all’inaugurazione dell’anno accademico unical.it. Checked 14 October 2026.
  12. Professor Georg Gottlob FRS | Royal Society Fellow royalsociety.org. Checked 14 October 2026.
  13. Georg Gottlob: «L’intelligenza artificiale non è ancora perfetta, sbagliato fidarsi ciecamente» | VIDEO cosenzachannel.it. Checked 14 October 2026.