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  Book launch for "The Social Semantic Web"

  We had the official book launch of “The Social Semantic Web” last month in the President’s Drawing Room at NUI Galway. The book was officially launched by Dr. James J. Browne, President of NUI Galway. The book was authored by myself, Dr. Alexandre Passant and Prof. Stefan Decker from the…

  January 25, 2010
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  Another successful defense by Uldis Bojars in November

  Uldis Bojars submitted his PhD thesis entitled “The SIOC MEthodology for Lightweight Ontology Development” to the University in September 2009. We had a nice night out to celebrate in one of our favourite haunts, Oscars Bistro. This was followed by a successful defense at the end of November 2009. The…

  December 23, 2009
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  Haklae Kim and his successful defense in September

  This is a few months late but better late then never! We said goodbye to PhD researcher Haklae Kim in May of this year when he returned to Korea and took up a position with Samsung Electronics soon afterward. We had a nice going away lunch for Haklae with the…

  December 23, 2009
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  BlogTalk 2009 (6th International Social Software Conference) – Call for Proposals – September 1st and 2nd – Jeju, Korea

  BlogTalk 2009 The 6th International Conf. on Social Software September 1st and 2nd, 2009 Jeju Island, Korea Overview Following the international success of the last five BlogTalk events, the next BlogTalk – to be held in Jeju Island, Korea on September 1st and 2nd, 2009 – is continuing with its…

  May 29, 2009
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  New BE/MEngSc in Engineering Innovation – Electronic from NUI Galway

  NUI Galway‘s College of Engineering & Informatics is now offering a new course titled “Engineering Innovation – Electronic“. This course will provide graduates with specialised multi-disciplinary skills to start their own business, centered on the development of innovative, niche, market-led, electronic products. The programme is composed of three multi-disciplinary strands,…

  April 24, 2009
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  My new job in Electronic Engineering! Will still collaborate with DERI…

  Next month, I will begin a tenured lectureship position at the Department of Electronic Engineering here in the College of Engineering and Informatics at the National University of Ireland, Galway. However, I will still do joint research with the Digital Enterprise Research Institute, continuing (amongst other things) to work with…

  July 31, 2008
• Education NUI Galway

  Explaining science and engineering to future students and the public

  I read two articles today that explained the need to better illustrate the interesting and exciting aspects of science and engineering subjects to the public (and to also attract future students). The first is from Engineers Ireland where Dr. Jim Browne, president of the Irish professional body for engineers (and…

  July 4, 2008
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  CELT talk / WWW@15 on Morning Ireland / Ulrich Schnauss

  A mixed-up blog post, but I haven’t the energy to write three separate posts, so here’s a three-in-one: On Wednesday, I gave a talk at CELT, NUI Galway about “Learning via the Social Web”, which was a slightly-revised version of the one I gave in February. Again, there was an…

  May 2, 2008
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  Been a busy B…

  …for the past few months, hence the lack of regular blog entries. Most of my summer has been taken up with proposal writing for research funding here at DERI, the first of which finished up around the end of the June and the second ran from then until the end…

  September 3, 2007
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  ShareIT training day in UCC

  Damien tells us about a training day he is organising in UCC this Saturday (March 24th): The training will cover the basics for an IT company or IT person that’s just setting out in business. […] If you are interested in coming along, please do come along or if you…

  March 20, 2007