Our over 100-year history
The MPI for Intelligent Systems emerged in 2011 from the MPI for Metals Research, which was founded in 1921. The social and political changes that led to the collapse of the Weimar Republic, the Nazi seizure of power and the Second World War, the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, the German economic miracle and an increasingly technological and digital world that can no longer do without artificial intelligent systems – all this is reflected in our history. As different as the research conditions have been, it has always been about basic research at the highest international level – for more than 100 years.
1921-1933
1934-1945
1945-1949
1949-1959
1960-1968
1968-1980
1981-1991
1991-2001
2002-2011
2011-2021
In 2011, the Max Planck Institute for Metals Research, founded in 1921, is renamed the “MPI for Intelligent Systems”. The existing location in Stuttgart is joined by another in Tübingen. The newly reoriented Institute forms the nucleus of Cyber Valley, a research network founded in 2016 which is quickly developing into one of Europe’s most successful AI research hubs. The Institute’s research activities and the support it provides for junior scientists are strengthened by the close ties with the Universities of Stuttgart and Tübingen and the partnerships established with international higher education institutions. In 2018, the MPI-IS joins forces with other AI research locations to form the European research network ELLIS.
