Prof Stefan Rueger of KMi has been named as one of three Programme Co-chairs of the IEEE/WIC/ACM Web Intelligence conference to be held later this year in Toronto. Web Intelligence (WI) has emerged as a new direction for scientific research and development to explore the fundamental roles as well as practical impacts of Artificial Intelligence…
The Information Retrieval Facility (IRF) in Vienna will be hosting its first international conference in May 2010 for which a member of KMi, Professor Stefan Rueger, has been appointed the Programme Chair. The IRF is an open, not-for-profit Information Retrieval science institution, which is managed by international experts in the field. The mission of IRF…
Three members of KMi attended the 4th International Conference on Semantic and Digital Media Technologies (SAMT) in Graz in Dec 2009. SAMT 2009 targetted narrowing the so-called semantic gap, that is, the large disparity between the low-level descriptors that can be computed automatically from multimedia content and the high-level semantic meaning of the multimedia that…
The beginning of this week saw over 350 Future Internet stakeholders from academia, government and industry meet with the Kista Science City in Stockholm. This meeting, part of the series of six-monthly Future Internet Assemblies, enables the leaders of over a hundred EU projects representing a budget approaching 500M Euros to collaborate on key issues…
Fridolin Wild gave the opening keynote to this year’s InternetBeta conference with a talk on ‘Science 2.0’ and the transformational impact of new technology on the way we research in the 21st Century. The presentation was framed by a talk from Jon McLoone from Wolfram Research about their latest project Wolfram Alpha and a talk…
The last in the series of the Cross-Language Evaluation Forum (CLEF) was held in Corfu, Greece, last week. This meeting was particularly special as it marks the end to the participation of Carol Peters after ten years of enthusiastic work as main organiser. Carol opened the programme session with an exhaustive analysis of the considerable…
Stefan Rueger of KMi organised with Gabriella Kazai of Microsoft Research Cambridge as general chairs a conference on the Theory of Information Retrieval in Cambridge, UK, in Sept 2009. This biennial conference, now in its second edition, meant to explore the foundations of where Information Retrieval has stretched to in information and computer sciences, mathematics…
Stefan Rueger of KMi returned from spending a week in Padua, where he taught 170 delegates at the European Summer School in Information Retrieval. ESSIR is a biennial event to provide quality teaching of advanced information retrieval topics to an audience of researchers and research students. The summer school consisted of a week filled with…
Serge Zagorac of Multimedia Information Systems group has successfully accomplished this years Trecvid submission, competing in fully automatic video search category. This is the 7th successful participation for MMIS. We are eagerly anticipating the results. The TREC conference series is sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) with additional support from other…
This week saw a highly stimulating workshop on how Semantic Technologies could support the Future Internet held in conjunction with the Future Internet Symposium in Berlin. The workshop combined a number of leading players from the semantics arena and from the main areas of the Future Internet, namely from the: Internet of Services, Internet of…
