http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/rss.xmlUniversity of Aberdeen Computing Science Department news feed enDepartment Of Computing Science, University of Aberdeen webmaster@csd.abdn.ac.uk webmaster@csd.abdn.ac.uk Wed, 17 Mar 2010 04:51:10 GMT http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/images/rss_logo.jpghttp://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/rss.xml14431 The book "Not Exactly: In Praise of Vagueness" by Kees van Deemter has been reviewed in New Scientist, Wall Street Journal, and the Guardian. Tue, 16 Mar 2010 09:57:08 GMT news http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~kvdeemte/NotExactly-reviews http://www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/~kvdeemte/NotExactly-reviews Computing Science within the Natural and Computing Sciences School invites applications for a part-time Research Assistant. (Closing Date: 29|03|10) Tue, 09 Mar 2010 15:13:21 GMT general http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=NAT028R http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=NAT028R EPSRC has awarded £135K to Ehud Reiter and Yvonne Freer (Edinburgh and NHS Lothian) for "Providing better information for parents and babies in neonatal intensive care." Wed, 24 Feb 2010 13:56:44 GMT news http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/H042938/1 http://gow.epsrc.ac.uk/ViewGrant.aspx?GrantRef=EP/H042938/1 Computing Science invites applications for a Research Fellow post, to work as part of the EPSRC-funded project "Affecting People with Natural Language" (Closing Date: 29|03|10) Tue, 09 Feb 2010 09:18:33 GMT general http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=COM004R http://www.abdn.ac.uk/jobs/display.php?recordid=COM004R Advaith Siddharthan has been appointed to the editorial board of Computational Linguistics Fri, 22 Jan 2010 15:09:00 GMT news EPSRC has awarded £285K to Ehud Reiter and Annalu Waller (Dundee) for a followup project to How Was School Today. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:16:37 GMT news http://howwasschooltoday.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ http://howwasschooltoday.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ Jeff Z. Pan will co-chair the Ontology and Reasoning Track in ESWC2010 (Extended Semantic Web Conference), which will be held in Heraklion, Greece 30th May to 3rd June 2010. Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:16:10 GMT news http://www.eswc2010.org/calls/ontologies-and-reasoning http://www.eswc2010.org/calls/ontologies-and-reasoning Wendy Moncur and Saad Mahamood interviewed by BBC news on the BabyTalk project Thu, 10 Dec 2009 10:15:34 GMT news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8375868.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8375868.stm Congratulations to Stuart Taylor who has won the Best Poster Award (Lightweight Rule Extended Ontology Languages) in the PhD Symposium of the 6th European Semantic Web Conference (ESWC2009, http://www.eswc2009.org/). Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:39:55 GMT news http://www.eswc2009.org/ http://www.eswc2009.org/ Ehud Reiter and Yaji Sripada have formed a spin-out company Data2Text, which commercialises the data-to-text technology developed within the departmental research group. Wed, 07 Oct 2009 09:03:36 GMT news http://www.data2text.com/data2text http://www.data2text.com/data2text Dr Martin Kollingbaum and Dr Advaith Siddharthan have both joined the Department as new members of academic staff over the summer from CMU and Cambridge. Thu, 03 Sep 2009 08:46:33 GMT news There was a press conference about the "How Was School" project yesterday, which gathered a lot of attention at the BBC. The story was on the news home page, and as a video clip. video clip Find more about the project at http://howwasschooltoday.computing.dundee.ac.uk/ Fri, 05 Jun 2009 09:37:24 GMT news http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8081410.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8081410.stm