Rudi Studer

Timeline

1. 1975–1985

   Degrees in Stuttgart

   He earns a computer science diploma in 1975, a doctorate in 1982, and a habilitation in 1985 at the University of Stuttgart.

2. 1985–1989

   Managing projects at IBM

   He leads projects at IBM Germany from 1985 to 1989.

3. 1989–2017

   Professor and director at KIT

   He becomes a professor at KIT in 1989 and remains in the role until 2017. He directs KSRI and FZI, and his research covers knowledge management and Semantic Web technologies. He serves as founding president of SWSA and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Web Semantics.

4. 1998

   Ontobroker for web access

   In 1998, he and Dieter Fensel, Stefan Decker, and Michael Erdmann publish “Ontobroker: Or How to Enable Intelligent Access to the WWW.”

5. 1998

   Knowledge engineering methods

   With V. Richard Benjamins and Dieter Fensel, he publishes a 1998 survey of knowledge engineering. It describes the field’s shift from a transfer view to a modeling view and compares role-limiting methods, generic tasks, CommonKADS, MIKE, and PROTÉGÉ-II.

6. 2005–2006

   Semantic Wikipedia

   Semantic MediaWiki launches in 2005 as a MediaWiki extension that adds annotations for searching and sharing wiki content. In 2006, he co-authors “Semantic Wikipedia,” a WWW paper that describes adding machine-readable data to wiki articles.

7. As of October 2026

   Emeritus at KIT

   As of October 2026, he is a retired full professor in applied informatics at KIT.