Research paper by Alex L. Wood, Geoff V. Merrett, Steve R. Gunn, Bashir M. Al-Hashimi, Nigel R. Shadbolt and Wendy Hall, on a new architecture for context awareness which achieves a good balance between energy consumption and reliable context identification.
Interview with Nigel Shadbolt in “Wired” magazine on plans for the Open Data Institute and what it can offer private and public organisations and individuals.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall has been appointed as a non-executive member of the board of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL).
DSTL provides the government with scientific research and technical support on defence and security matters. It is the largest governmental scientific organisation, with 3500 employees spread over 3 different sites and an annual turnover of about £550M.
Professor Dame Wendy Hall said: “I am delighted to be taking up this position on the DSTL board and, having worked with Dstl before, I am looking forward to furthering my relationship with the organisation’s science and technology community.”
Research paper by Tope Omitola, Andre Freitas, Edward Curry, Sean O’Riain, Nicholas Gibbins and Nigel Shadbolt on a formal model of IDT (Interactive Data Transformation). IDT tools allow re-purposing of data by standardisation of heterogeneous data sets. They can also perform data quality assurance. The paper discusses the implementation and validation of the model on the IDT platform Google Refine.
Research paper by Ramine Tinati, Leslie Carr, Wendy Hall and Jonny Bentwood on a new model to enable analysis of conversations on Twitter. The model includes categorisation of users based on their behaviour, identification of key players in a conversation, categorisation by topic and identification of users who may distribute valuable knowledge.
Interview with Wendy Hall in the New Straits Times, discussing her career path, the “computer geek” label and the need to encourage women to study Computer Science.
A paper by Igor Popov, M. C. Schraefel, Gianluca Correndo, Wendy Hall and Nigel Shadbolt on “Mash-point:” a new framework for a user-friendly system to enable access to linked data.
A paper by Hugh Glaser and Harry Halpin, published in the IEEE (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) Internet Computing magazine, suggesting various methods for using linked data to solve the problem of identity.
A research paper by Yunjia Li, Mike Wald, Tope Omitola, Nigel Shadbolt and Gary Wills on using Linked Data principles to reference, describe, interlink or search media fragments (e.g. an area of an image or a segment of a video). The paper includes a discussion of the implementation of a model to allow Google to index media fragments, which will increase their online presence.
A research paper by Max Van Kleek, Daniel A. Smith, Nigel R. Shadbolt and M. C. Schraefel on the problems and frustrations of using disparate systems for managing personal data. A new web-standards based architecture for consolidating personal information systems called the WebBox is proposed.