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Jakob Tschandl

Forschungsinstitut für Technik- und Wissenschaftsgechichte

BMBF Forschungsprojekt "Eine Geschichte der KI in der BRD"

Telephone +49 89 2179 572
Email j.tschandl@deutsches-museum.de

Curriculum Vitae

  • 2015 – 2019                      
    Technical University of Berlin, History and Culture of Science and Technology, Master of Arts
  • 2010 – 2014                      
    University of Vienna, History, Bachelor of Arts
  • 2009 – 2011                      
    Vienna University of Economics and Business, Economics and Social Sciences
  • 2008 – 2009                      
    Vienna University of Technology, Industrial Engineering
  • 2002 – 2007                      
    Federal higher technical institute Linz Paul-Hahn Straße, Mechanical engineering

Short Biography

Jakob Tschandl graduated from the Höhere Technische Bundeslehranstalt Linz Paul-Hahn-Straße with a degree in mechanical engineering. Afterwards, he did his Bachelor in history at the University of Vienna. At the Technical University of Berlin he completed the master's program History and Culture of Science and Technology. In his master's thesis, he dealt with the historical development of CAD systems in mechanical engineering.

Since January 2020, he is a research associate in the project "IGGI – Ingenieur-Geist und Geistes-Ingenieure" on the history of the AI subfield of expert systems in the Federal Republic of Germany at the Research Institute of the Deutsches Museum in Munich and PhD-Student at the Technical University of Darmstadt.

Research topics

  • History of Technology
  • History of AI

Project

IGGI - The Engineering Spirit and Engineers of Mind: A History of AI in the Federal Republic of Germany

Publications

Das Auge am Marktgeschehen – Die Lorenz-Röhre und der Sieg nach 1945. In: Popplow, Marcus(Hg.); Winzer, Beate (Hg.): Fliegen und Funktechnik. Die Flugzeugfabrik der Luftwaffe Berlin-Tempelhof 1933–1945(Berlin 2018). S.45-53.