# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-wahlster
# Generated: 2026-08-15T00:40:58.027Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-wahlster"
name: "Wolfgang Wahlster"
slug: "wolfgang-wahlster"
description: "Wolfgang Wahlster is a German artificial intelligence researcher. He was CEO and Scientific Director of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence and full professor of computer science at Saarland University, Saarbrücken. Wahlster remains Chief Executive Advisor of the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. In May 2019, he was honored by the Gesellschaft für Informatik as one of 10 most important heads of German artificial intelligence history. He is sometimes called the inventor of the \"Industry 4.0\" term."
tagline: "German artificial intelligence researcher"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Wahlster_Portrait.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Academics"
  slug: "academics"
profileType:
  name: "Academic"
  slug: "academic"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q39631"
birthDate: "1953-02-02"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           41.93
  momentum:             2.419354838709677
  historical:           6.344925333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     39.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
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    title: "Вольфган Вальстер"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D9%81%D8%AC%D8%A7%D9%86%D8%AC_%D9%88%D8%A7%D9%84%D8%B3%D8%AA%D8%B1"
    title: "وولفجانج والستر"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Wahlster"
    title: "Wolfgang Wahlster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Wahlster"
    title: "Wolfgang Wahlster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B3%BC%ED%94%84%EA%B0%95_%EB%B0%9C%EC%8A%A4%ED%84%B0"
    title: "볼프강 발스터"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://mg.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfgang_Wahlster"
    title: "Wolfgang Wahlster"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%92%D0%B0%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%81%D1%82%D0%B5%D1%80%2C_%D0%92%D0%BE%D0%BB%D1%8C%D1%84%D0%B3%D0%B0%D0%BD%D0%B3"
    title: "Вальстер, Вольфганг"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q92995"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump