Please answer the following question: Facts: - residence: 20px - doctoral advisor: armin b. cremers - work institution: university of washington , seattle - birth date: 1966 - name: dieter fox - image: file of computer science and engineering.jpg : dieter fox university of washington associate professor - alma mater: university of bonn Based on these bullet points, write a short biography describing the life of dieter fox .
A:
dieter fox is a german roboticist and a professor in the department of computer science & engineering at the university of washington , seattle .he is most notable for his contributions to several fields including robotics , artificial intelligence , machine learning , and ubiquitous computing .together with wolfram burgard and sebastian thrun he is a co-author of the book '' probabilistic robotics '' .