Dec
10
2010
On Wednesday, Google Research announced their Quarter 4 Research Awards, in which they awarded $6 million to academic researchers. Of the 112 awards made, two were made to SFI-funded researchers. The first to Dr. Tim McCarthy of the StratAG Strategic Research Cluster in the area of Geo/Maps. The second award was make to Dr. Alexandre Passant of the DERI Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology in NUI Galway in the area of mobile technology.
There are some well known and high profile academics in the list of awardees. I’ve noticed Prof. Peter Brusilovsky of the University of Pittsburgh and Prof. David Karger of MIT among the award winners. Peter is a former SFI E.T.S Walton Visitor Award holder, and David has acted as a panel reviewer for SFI in the past.
Congratulations to both Tim and Alexandre for a great result in the face of stiff competition.
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Jul
27
2009
DERI, the SFI-funded CSET in semantic web technology, has announced the launch of Sig.ma, which they describe as giving live aggregation of semantic web data. Sig.ma is based on another piece of DERI technology – Sindice, the semantic web search engine.
To quote from their post:
In Sig.ma, elements such as large scale semantic web indexing, logic reasoning, data aggregation heuristics, pragmatic ontology alignments and, last but not least, user interaction and refinement, all play together to provide entity descriptions which become live, embeddable data mash ups.
I haven’t had an opportunity to play around with Sig.ma yet, but it looks interesting, and I plan on doing so.
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Jul
8
2008
Just came across an article entitled Tangler: An API for Discussion Forums in programmableweb which talks about a new API for discussion forums.
I wonder how this relates to the SIOC ontology developed at DERI?
While diversity and multiple approaches are great, one of the real benefits of the programmable web (and indeed programming in general) has got to be standardisation and predictability.
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Feb
14
2008
boards.ie one of the grand old dames of the Irish internet space, is 10 years old this week. It was established by John Breslin, who now works at the SFI DERI.
Check out a nice interview and writeup in SiliconRepublic
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Oct
22
2007
There’s been a lot of coverage recently about a new web app called Twine, which is supposedly built on semantic web technology. It’ll be interesting to see how this fares in the real world, as there are precious few real semantic web apps in the wild with any kind of mass popularity.
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May
28
2007
Read/WriteWeb has just posted an entry about The Semantic Technology Conference that has just finished in San Jose, California.
Looks like the DERI guys were well represented at the event.
It’s a sure sign that things are about to take off in the semantic web world when you have plenty of start-ups working in the space. This area is certainly going to be very interesting over the next few years.
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