Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis)

Martin Harrigan — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 11:34:42 +0000

Clique is co-organizing a Workshop on Social Media Visualization (SocMedVis) at the International AAAI Conference on Weblogs and Social Media (ICWSM'12) at Trinity College Dublin on 4th June 2012. It is a full day workshop. For more details see the website and the call for papers.

Clique SRC featured in The Irish Times

Derek Greene — Wed, 02 Nov 2011 17:56:08 +0000

The Clique Research Cluster was featured in the Innovation Section of The Irish Times on Friday 28th October. In the interview, Clique director Prof. Pádraig Cunningham explained the motivation for network analytics, and how the group’s research is strongly influenced by the commercial challenges faced by its industry partners.

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Clique PhD Student Donal McGowan wins Best Paper Award @ AICS 2011

Prag Sharma — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 13:48:59 +0000

After an intense deliberation by the chairs of the sessions due to the high quality of the papers presented at the conference, the best paper award (comprising an iPad2 kindly sponsored by Metralab) was granted to Clique PhD student Mr Donal McGowan of University College Dublin, for his outstanding performance presenting the paper "Churn Prediction in Mobile Telecommunications".

The paper was jointly written with Clique's Industry Partners Idiro Technologies.

Donn Morrison joins the Clique Research Group at DERI, Galway

Prag Sharma — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 19:35:32 +0000

Welcome to Donn Morrison, who has just started as a post-doctoral researcher in DERI and will work on the Clique and ROBUST projects.

Lorcan Coyle joins the Clique Research Group at UCD, Dublin

Prag Sharma — Mon, 05 Sep 2011 14:34:14 +0000

Welcome to Lorcan Coyle, a new member of the Clique research cluster.

Lorcan Coyle has joined Clique through an Enterprise Ireland Commercialisation Fund Project from Lero-the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre in the University of Limerick. Prior to his time in UL he worked as a postdoc here in UCD (up on the third floor of CASL!) and prior to that he completed a PhD in Machine Learning in TCD in 2004.

Clique Researchers investigate Anonymity in Bitcoin

Wed, 27 Jul 2011 16:21:32 +0000

An analysis of anonymity in the Bitcoin system, conducted by Clique researchers Fergal Reid and Martin Harrigan, was recently featured on a number of popular news web sites including New Scientist, Slashdot, Hacker News and

WebSchool11: Call for Applications for the 2011 Web Science Trust Doctoral Summer School

Prag Sharma — Wed, 13 Apr 2011 19:48:31 +0000

LOCATION: Galway, Ireland
WEB: http://webscience.deri.ie

DATES:
Application deadline: 30 April 2011
Notifications: 15 May 2011
Summer School 6-13 July 2011

Clique Scientific Awards

Prag Sharma — Fri, 18 Feb 2011 10:24:32 +0000

Clique won 4 scientific awards at National and International Conferences in 2010. These included 2 best paper awards, 1 best short paper award and 1 second-best paper award.

Clique-related awards:

Visiting Researcher, Bobo Nick, collaborates with Clique SRC

Prag Sharma — Thu, 03 Feb 2011 09:39:10 +0000

Bobo Nick joined the Clique team in UCD on 17th January 2011, collaborating as a visiting researcher for a six week stay. He is a PhD student from the University of Konstanz, working in the Algorithmics Group of Ulrik Brandes, Clique's external collaborator on visualisation. He is also a member of the Visone development team.

Visual Analysis of Complex Networks (VACN) Workshop & Visualization Cook-Off Competition

Derek Greene — Wed, 19 Jan 2011 13:11:37 +0000

On January 20th 2011 the Clique SRC and Innovation Research Unit (IRU) will host the VACN workshop & Visualization Cook-off Competition in UCD CASL, Dublin. This workshop has invited international participation from five teams who develop leading software that supports graph visualization and analysis. The morning consists of presentations, and, in the afternoon, the teams will visualize a common graph data set which will be handed to them blindly on the day of competition.