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The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems officially emerged on the 18th of March 2011. This date marked the establishment of a new research entity within the Max Planck Society.
The institute maintains two sites located in Stuttgart and Tübingen. These cities serve as geographic anchors for its interdisciplinary work on intelligent systems.
Bernhard Schölkopf leads the Empirical Inference department which is located in Tübingen. He directs this specific group alongside other faculty directors who manage distinct focus areas.
The institute cooperates closely with ETH Zurich to form the Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems. It also joined the Cyber Valley research network since December 2016 and collaborates with industrial partners like Amazon, BMW Group, and Daimler AG.
One hundred twelve doctoral students and post-docs have been admitted to the joint doctoral program since its establishment in 2015. Funding for this initiative extended until 2025 by July 2019.