The 21st Irish Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science is being hosted in the National University of Ireland Galway. It is being organised jointly by Information Technology, Psychology and the Digital Enterprise Research Institute. The conference has, since 1988, provided a forum for the exchange of ideas and the presentation of research conducted both in Ireland and worldwide and offers a unique opportunity to allow the AICS community to disseminate information and foster collaborations.

Welcome to Martin Harrigan, a new member of the Clique research cluster.

Martin Harrigan joined the Clique team in UCD as a postdoctoral researcher on 5th January 2010, working on problems in visualisation. He will be supervised by Neil Hurley, Pádraig Cunningham and supported by Ulrik Brandes, Clique's external collaborator on visualisation.

Clique's Collaboration with Norkom was in the news recently with the initiation of a strategic research project between the two partners.

John Keane, Norkom's Director of Product Management and Engineering  said: "At a time when the industry is just emerging from the impact of a global downturn, with reduced revenues, slashed budgets and increasing levels of fraud, Norkom is seeking to find a more intelligent way to protect financial institutions from the devastating impacts of fraud. Working in collaboration with leading research institutes, we are confident of continuing our track record in finding more efficient and effective ways of indentifying criminal activity and mitigating the resultant losses for financial institutions".

See article: http://irishdev.com/Home/News/772-Norkom--Clique-link-to-Cut-Crime.html

Clique is looking for 2 Postdoctoral Researchers and several phd students for its research group based in UCD, Dublin. Clique will address research challenges in understanding of social and biological networks. The postdoctoral positions are relevant for phds in computer science, statistics, mathematics, HCI, bioscience and related disciplines. These positions are particularly relevant for people with experience in data mining, machine learning, visualisation or bioinformatics.

Clique is looking for a Senior Postdoctoral Researcher (SPD) for its Visualisation workpackage. The focus of this workpackage is on the development of fundamental algorithms, methods and interaction techniques required to visualise large and dynamic networks pocessing latent structures. The SPD will work with the academic staff in directing the research within the  workpackage. In addition,  the SPD will lead the day-to-day supervision of the researchers in the workpackage and will also assist in managing the interaction with the industrial partners in the project.

Welcome to Gian Luca Negri, a new member of the Clique research cluster.

Gian Luca joined the Clique project at CASL, Dublin on September 1st. Gian Luca has a Masters of Science in Bioinformatics obtained at the University of Milan-Bicocca and a Bachelor Degree in Medical Biotechnology from the University of Milan. During the Internship for Master, Gian Luca wrote a thesis named "A Data Mining application to evaluate similarity measures in protein structure prediction".

As its core component, the study suggests to use a web questionnaire methodology developed by one of IRU´s main collaborators to study communication stuctures of research networks. So far, IRU's collaboration partner MIT Engineering Systems Division have investigated the Boston Biotech Cluster using this methodology (see Communications Network Biotech link below). IRU is interested in applying this web questionnaire method to the Clique group.

Welcome to Jeffrey Chan, a new member of the Clique research cluster.

Jeffrey Chan joins the Clique project as a postdoctoral researcher. Jeffrey has a B. Eng in electrical engineering and a B. Sc (Honours) in computer science.  His honours thesis was on Internet worm detection using a history based approach.  In June 2009, Jeffrey passed his P.hD examination.  His P.hD topic was on finding interesting subgraphs that evolve similarly in large, dynamic graphs.  All his degrees were completed at the University of Melbourne, Australia.

Dr. Aaron Quigley, a co-Principal investigator on CLIQUE is pleased to host Dr. John O'Donovan in his CLIQUE seminar at UCD on "WiGis:  Web-based Interactive Graph Interfaces:  A Scalable Approach" in the UCD CASL seminar room at 11am on August 28th 2009.