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The Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems was founded on the 18th of March 2011. It operates across two campuses in Stuttgart and Tübingen, Germany, as one of 84 institutes within the Max Planck Society.
MPI-IS is organized into six research departments: Empirical Inference led by Bernhard Schölkopf, Haptic Intelligence led by Katherine Kuchenbecker, Perceiving Systems led by Michael J. Black, Robotic Materials and Physical Intelligence led by Christoph Keplinger, and Social Foundations of Computation led by Moritz Hardt. Departments are distributed between the Tübingen and Stuttgart campuses.
The Max Planck ETH Center for Learning Systems (CLS) is the first joint doctoral program of ETH Zurich and the Max Planck Society. Founded in 2015, it has admitted 112 doctoral students and post-docs as Fellows or Associated Fellows, and counts 50 directors, professors, and research group leaders among its membership. Funding for the program was extended through 2025 in July 2019.
Cyber Valley is a research network in Baden-Württemberg that MPI-IS joined in December 2016. Its partners include the University of Stuttgart, the University of Tübingen, the Fraunhofer Gesellschaft, the State of Baden-Württemberg, and seven industrial partners: Amazon, BMW Group, Daimler AG, IAV GmbH, Porsche AG, Robert Bosch GmbH, and ZF Friedrichshafen AG.
MPI-IS has two locations in Germany: Stuttgart and Tübingen. Research departments and independent groups are distributed across both campuses, with several departments concentrated in Tübingen and others in Stuttgart.
ELLIS, the European Laboratory for Learning and Intelligent Systems, was founded in 2018 with the goal of strengthening Europe's role in global AI research. MPI-IS is among the institutions connected to the ELLIS network.