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                         THE UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER
                   COMPUTER SCIENCE RESEARCH INSTITUTE &
                              FACULTY OF ARTS
                  SCHOOL OF CREATIVE ARTS & TECHNOLOGIES

                IS PLEASED TO ANNOUNCE A SEMINAR ENTITLED:

                            `Head Squeeze:
                        Bridging semantic gaps
                      at The Imagineering Quarter'

                                  by

                        Professor Paul Mc Kevitt
 
                                 from
 
                 School of Creative Arts & Technologies
                   Computer Science Research Institute
                        University of Ulster, Magee
                             NORTHERN IRELAND
 
                        TUESDAY, March 19th, 2013
                                 1.00 P.M.
                     Main MD Building, Magee Campus
                          Room MD-108, 1st Floor


                                 Abstract

It has  now been 10 years  since we last reported  with: ``Waiting for
Artificial Intelligence:  Desperately seeking Intelligent MultiMedia''
(March,  2003).  Consider  This: Times  have moved  on and  there have
since been  three apropos developments:  (1) the Semantic Web  has now
grown up  with computer  signal & symbol  processing of text,  audio &
video modality inputs and outputs and semantic representations such as
Resource Description  Framework (RDF), (2) a  ground breaking workshop
on  Digital Creativity bringing  together academics,  industrialists &
Ph.D.   students  aligned with  genesis  of  The Imagineering  Quarter
(March,  2010), and  (3) The  International Loebner  Prize  Contest in
Artificial  Intelligence  (AI)**  will   be  held  this  year  at  The
Imagineering Quarter during CultureTECH (September, 2013).

Here we will uncover some  new software inventions at The Imagineering
Quarter and showcase research and software prototypes developed by our
team  of  academic colleagues,  researchers  and  Ph.D.  students  for
modelling people's emotions  (NewsViz, PlayPhysics), online game-based
learning  environments  for   primary  school  children  &  university
students  (AmbiLearn, PlayPhysics),  automatic  visualisation of  text
(Confucius,   NewsViz,   SceneMaker),   mobile  digital   storytelling
companions  for older  people  (MemoryLane), a  media hub  distributed
platform   (MediaHub),    bandwidth   determined   mobile   multimodal
presentation (TeleMorph,  TeleTuras), indoor tracking  and location of
people's movements (HABITS), automatic  replacement of audio on bursty
wireless networks  (SoFI) and hiding information in  images for secure
data transmission  & digital watermarking  (Steganoflage, HidInImage).
These software prototypes have led to publications, innovation awards,
invention disclosures, patents,  software licensing, proofs of concept
and  Magee's second  spin-out campus  company (HidInImage  Ltd.), with
such Impacts now considered crucial for UK REF-2014.

Finally,  we will  end with  a status  update on  continuing desperate
searches for Intelligent MultiMedia and  a Head Squeeze on our new DEL
CAST  work   with  360  Production  Ltd.   on   sentiment  analysis  &
gamification for recommending trusted media assets (360-MAM-Select).

**FOOTNOTE:
The international Loebner Prize  contest in Artificial Intelligence to
find the  world's best conversational chatbot computer  program is the
first formal instantiation  of `The Turing Test' which  is named after
Alan Turing,  the brilliant  British mathematician who  also developed
basic research on the theoretical foundation of computing science.

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Biography:

Professor Paul Mc Kevitt is  Chair in Digital MultiMedia at the School
of Creative  Arts & Technologies, Faculty  of Arts, and  member of the
Computer  Science  Research Institute  (CSRI),  University of  Ulster,
Magee, Derry~LondonDerry~LegenDerry, Northern Ireland.  Previously, he
was   Associate  Professor   (Senior  Lecturer)   in  the   School  of
Electronics, Electrical Engineering  and Computer Science, The Queen's
University  of  Belfast,  Northern  Ireland.   He  has  been  Visiting
Professor  of Intelligent  MultiMedia  Computing in  the Institute  of
Electronic  Systems,  Aalborg  University,  Denmark  and  a  UK  EPSRC
(Engineering and  Physical Sciences Research  Council) Advanced Fellow
in  the  Department  of  Computer Science,  University  of  Sheffield,
England.  The Fellowship, commenced in 1994, and released him from his
Associate Professorship  (tenured Lectureship) for 5  years to conduct
full-time research on the  integration of natural language, speech and
vision  processing.   He  completed  a Master's  degree  in  Education
(M.Ed.)   at  the University  of  Sheffield  in  1999, his  Ph.D.   in
Computer Science  at the  University of Exeter,  England in  1991, his
Master's  degree  in Computer  Science  (M.S.)   at  New Mexico  State
University,  New Mexico,  USA in  1988  and his  Bachelor's degree  in
Computer Science  (B.Sc., Hons.)  at University  College Dublin (UCD),
Ireland in  1985.  He has  published numerous papers  in international
journals, conferences  and books.  His primary  research interests are
in  Natural  Language Processing  (NLP)  including  the processing  of
sentiment, beliefs and intentions  in dialogue.  He is also interested
in Philosophy,  Digital Creativity and the general  area of Artificial
Intelligence.

http://www.paulmckevitt.com
http://uk.linkedin.com/in/paulmckevitt
http://www.facebook.com/paul.mckevitt

All Welcome !

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