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Pádraig Cunningham is Professor of Knowledge and Data Engineering in the School of Computer Science and Informatics at University College Dublin. He has a B.E. and M.Eng.Sci. from NUI Galway and a Ph.D. from Dublin University which he received in 1989. He became a Fellow of ECCAI (European Coordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence) in 2004. After completing his PhD he worked with Digital Equipment Corporation as a Software Engineer and with Hitachi Europe Ltd. as a Research Scientist. He joined Trinity College Dublin as a lecturer in 1992 and moved to the School of Computer Science and Informatics in University College Dublin in 2006. He is a former director of start-up companies New World Commerce and Prediction Dynamics. Dr. Cunningham has published over 140 peer-reviewed papers in the general area of applied AI, focusing on machine learning and case-based reasoning systems for decision support in engineering, e-commerce, finance and medicine.
Barry Smyth holds the Digital Chair of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Informatics. Barry‘s research interests cover many aspects of artificial intelligence and information retrieval, including case-based reasoning, recommender systems, user modelling, and personalized user interfaces. He has published more than 300 peer-reviewed articles and has received a number of awards for his research. In 1999 Barry co-founded ChangingWorlds Ltd. to bring personalization technologies to mobile operators. He continues to serve as the company‘s Chief Scientist. ChangingWorlds has recently been acquired by Amdocs. Barry has recently helped to secure in excess of €16m in funding for CLARITY, the Centre for Sensor Web Technologies, where he will serve as Director. CLARITY will explore the combination of next-generation adaptive sensing and information discovery technologies in a range of application areas, including environmental monitoring, personalized healthcare, and social media. |
