The "KI-Rundbrief", its editors, and its community. A perspective on West German AI, 1975-1987

The "KI-Rundbrief" (AI newsletter) of the AI specialist group in the German Informatics Society is considered central to the emerging West German AI community. It was mailed out between 1975 and 1987, when it was turned into the journal Künstliche Intelligenz. Despite its presumed centrali...

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Veröffentlicht in:	IEEE annals of the history of computing 2023-07, Vol.45 (3), p.1-28
Hauptverfasser:	Pfau, Dinah, Piel, Helen, Muller, Florian, Tschandl, Jakob, Seising, Rudolf
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	academic publishing AI newsletter Artificial intelligence Deduction editorship Expert systems History history of artificial intelligence Image processing Informatics Natural language processing Qualitative analysis Statistical analysis twentieth century West Germany
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Zusammenfassung:	The "KI-Rundbrief" (AI newsletter) of the AI specialist group in the German Informatics Society is considered central to the emerging West German AI community. It was mailed out between 1975 and 1987, when it was turned into the journal Künstliche Intelligenz. Despite its presumed centrality, it has not been studied in detail. This paper combines a quantitative analysis of which research was published in the newsletter heuristically with a qualitative analysis looking at the role of the newsletter and its editors. It focuses especially on the subject areas deduction, natural language processing, expert systems, image processing, and cognitive science, showing that the newsletter only partially represents artificial intelligence research in the Federal Republic of Germany.
ISSN:	1058-6180 1934-1547
DOI:	10.1109/MAHC.2023.3295465