October 2007
01|10|07: Welcome back to Mairi McCallum, who has rejoined the department and will be working on the ITA Project as a research Fellow. [more]
September 2007
28|09|07: Dr. Jeff Pan gave an invited talk on Efficient Query Answering over Ontologies in the 2nd Workshop on Challenges and Promise of the Semantic Web. Participants of the workshop include experts of semantic technologies from HP, Motorala and NTT Network, as well as Prof. Christophe Claramunt, the director of the Naval Academy Research Institute, France. [more]
July 2007
04|07|07: Congratulations to Feng (Felix) Gao, who has won one of the 9 Overseas Research Award Scheme (ORSAS) awards achieved by the University of Aberdeen. [more]
June 2007
26|06|07: Dr. Jeff Pan co-edits the Special Issue (on Extended Papers from 2006 Conferences) of the Journal of Data Semantics (JoDS XI). [more]
May 2007
15|05|07: Welcome to Violeta Perez Nueno, who has joined the department for 3 months. She is a visiting PhD student from Barcelona, using molecular modeling and chemoinformatics techniques to help design novel anti-AIDS drugs. [more]
04|05|07: Congratulations to Wendy Moncur who has won first prize in the graduate student section of the CHI 2007 student research competition. [more]
March 2007
19|03|07: Dr. Jeff Z. Pan serves as a Program Committee Chair of the First International Conference on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR2007), which will be located in Innsbruck on June 7-8, 2007. [more]
16|03|07: Congratulations to Dr. Madalina Croitoru, who successfully defended and submitted her thesis "Conceptual Graphs at Work: Efficient Reasoning and Applications" [more]
08|03|07: Congratulations to Dr. Antonis Koussounadis for the successful defence of his PhD thesis on "Modelling of Fish Cytokines and Their Receptors". [more]
February 2007
21|02|07: Welcome to Chris Venour, who has joined the department and will be working part-time on the NLG platform grant and part-time as a PhD student. [more]
January 2007
15|01|07: Welcome to Dr Kavita Thomas, who has joined us as a research fellow on the atlas.txt project. [more]
December 2006
11|12|06: Congratulations to Joey Lam, Jeff Z. Pan, Derek Sleeman and Wamberto Vasconcelos who have won the best paper award at Web Intelligence 06 with their paper "A Fine-Grained Approach to Resolving Unsatisfiable Ontologies". [more]
November 2006
21|11|06: Dr. Frank Guerin and Dr. Wamberto Vasconcelos will co-organise the 2008 Annual Convention of the Society of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour, to be held in April 2008. [more]
14|11|06: The paper Querying the Semantic Web with Preferences by Wolf Siberski, Jeff Z. Pan and Uwe Thaden has won the ISWC2006 Best Student Paper Award (and hence $1000). It has also been nominated as one of the three candidates for ISWC2006 Best Paper Award. [more]
06|11|06: Welcome to Mario Gomez, who has joined the ITA project as a Research Fellow. [more]
06|11|06: Welcome to Alison Chorley who joined the PolicyGrid team on November 1st. Her focus will be on support for evidence-based policy development and evaluation in a Grid-enabled context. [more]
01|11|06: Two papers from Aberdeen have been accepted at ISWC-2006, Athens. Congratulations to Jeff Pan on both counts! [more]
October 2006
31|10|06: Welcome to Robert Glasgow, our newest PhD student who'll be working jointly with the Rowett Institute on Data Sharing in Nutrigenomic e-Science. [more]
07|10|06: Welcome to Chris Burnett and Geeth de Mel, who are starting their PhD work on the ITA project. They join Nir Oren who recently transferred over from Conoise-G. [more]
06|10|06: Welcome to Feng Gao, Saad Mahamood, and Wendy Moncur, who are new PhD students who will work on the Babytalk project. [more]
September 2006
28|09|06: Aberdeen Natural Language Generation group wins prestigious 5-year platform grant from EPSRC. [more]
19|09|06: Computing Science launches £2.9M, 10-year research alliance with USA. [more]
18|09|06: A big welcome to the department for Francois Portet, who has joined the Babytalk project as a Research Fellow. [more]
August 2006
24|08|06: Dr. Graeme Ritchie's work on the STANDUP project featured on BBC news online: "Joke generator raises a chuckle" [more]
02|08|06: Research in Language and Computation has published a special issue on "Formal Issues in Natural Language Generation", edited by Kees van Deemter, Ehud Reiter, and Helmut Horacek. [more]
June 2006
19|06|06: Congratulations are in order to four of our colleagues who have well-deserved promotions: Dr. Frank Guerin and Dr. Jeff Pan have both been promoted to Lecturer (B) and Dr. Alun Preece and Dr. Ehud Reiter have been made Readers. [more]
May 2006
18|05|06: Dr. Jeff Pan to co-chair the Semantic Web Enabled Software Engineering workshop at ISWC 2006. [more]
17|05|06: Dr. Jeff Pan to co-chair the new W3C Multimedia Semantics Incubator Group at WWW06, 22nd May in Edinburgh. [more]
17|05|06: Congratulations to Dr. Jeff Pan, who has been awarded 5000GBP from the Nuffield Foundation for his project "Representing and reasoning with imprecise knowledge in rule-extended ontologies". [more]
April 2006
25|04|06: Two papers by Dr. Ehud Reiter and colleagues in the top 25 Hottest Articles in the leading journal Artificial Intelligence. [more]
25|04|06: Congratulations to Mairi McCallum, who successfully defended her PhD thesis on Modelling Organisational Change using Agents. [more]
March 2006
17|03|06: Dr. Graeme Ritchie's STANDUP system featured in EPSRC Newsline: "Joke machine boosts children's wordplay". [more]
12|03|06: Welcome to Dr Abdelkader Gouaich, Ms Feikje Hielkema and Ms ChuiChing Tan who have joined the department as part of the PolicyGrid project. [more]
06|03|06: Congratulations to Dr. Yaji Sripada, who has been awarded an EPSRC grant to investigate Using Textual Descriptions to Improve Access to Geo-referenced Statistical Data [more]
01|03|06: Ehud Reiter's book 'Building Natural Language Generation Systems' now available in paperback. [more]
February 2006
01|02|06: Nava Tintarev has joined the department on a Sixth century studentship. She will be working on a project titled "Adaptive time-based media", extending Judith Masthoff's research in adaptive television and recommender systems. In particular, she will investigate how to adapt a television broadcast, such as news, automatically to the individual viewer. [more]
01|02|06: Prof. Jim Hunter interviewed by BBC news on the BabyTalk project [more]
01|02|06: British Council Highlights Aberdeen Computing Science Research [more]
January 2006
12|01|06: Dr. Emmanuel Tadjouddine has joined the agents group to undertake research on the "Machine Understandable Auctions" project. This project will investigate how agents could automatically find out if the rules of an auction guarantee a fair deal. The work is at the intersection of Game Theory and Computer Science. It could eventually find application in eCommerce scenarios: where agents automatically participate in auctions on the Internet. [more]
September 2005
28|09|05: Ehud Reiter article in New Scientist. [more]
June 2005
02|06|05: Professor Katia Sycara has joined the department as a Sixth Century Chair in Computing Science. [more]
November 2004
12|11|04: Professor Derek Sleeman has recently become a Fellow of the European Coordinating Committee for Artificial Intelligence (ECCAI). The award cites Prof Sleeman's pioneering work in the field of Artificial Intelligence, and outstanding service to the European AI community. [more]
May 2004
28|05|04: Peter Gray and Graham Kemp gave a successful graduate course at Gothenburg in May
based on their book, The Functional Approach to Data Management. [more]
12|05|04: Dr. Ehud Reiter has organised a workshop on Learning word meaning from non-linguistic data. [more]
April 2004
16|04|04: University of Aberdeen student Andrew Grieve has reached the international finals in the Imagine Cup student programming competition. The application developed by Andrew's team exploits research ideas in the area of our intelligent agents theme. (See also: 'Winning lines', Guardian 15|04|04 & BBC Technology Online) [more]
07|04|04: Dr. Yaji Sripada has been awarded a grant in the Nuffield scheme for new lecturers. [more]
March 2004
08|03|04: Sandra Williams has successfully defended her PhD thesis "Natural language generation (NLG) of discourse relations for different reading levels". [more]
February 2004
02|02|04: Tim Norman has co-edited Argumentation Machines: New Frontiers in Argument and Computation published by Kluwer. [more]
October 2003
06|10|03: Since it's start in 2000, AKT at Aberdeen has acquired an additional 160K in EPSRC Project Studentship funding. [more]
September 2003
04|09|03: Alun Preece has been awarded £166K from EPSRC to investigate "Describing the Quality of Curated E-Science Information Resources". [more]
01|09|03: Chris Mellish officially joins the department as a Professor of Computing Science. [more]
01|09|03: Peter Gray has published a book on The Functional Approach to Data Management [more]
August 2003
11|08|03: Prof. Chris Mellish has been awarded £70K from EPSRC to investigate "Presenting Ontologies in Natural Language". [more]
04|08|03: Prof. Derek Sleeman's paper "Forecasting recovery after traumatic brain injury using intelligent data analysis" in Journal of Neurosurgery attracts attention in the medical community and highlights issues which could lead to improved care of head injury patients. [more]
June 2003
12|06|03: Roly Lishman is a co-winner of the Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry Society's Len Curtis European Award for the best paper published in the International Journal of Remote Sensing in 2003, for his paper on the SYMOLAC project (in collaboration with the Macaulay Institute). [more]
11|06|03: Dr. Ehud Reiter has been awarded £106K from DTI, EPSRC, and ESRC to investigate "Automatic Generation of Personalised Basic Skills Summary Reports". [more]
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