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Another successful defense by Uldis Bojars in November

Posted Wed, 12/23/2009 - 17:41 by John Breslin

Uldis Bojars submitted his PhD thesis entitled "The SIOC MEthodology for Lightweight Ontology Development" to the University in September 2009. We had a nice night out to celebrate in one of our favourite haunts, Oscars Bistro.

Haklae Kim and his successful defense in September

Posted Wed, 12/23/2009 - 17:18 by John Breslin

This is a few months late but better late then never! We said goodbye to PhD researcher Haklae Kim in May of this year when he returned to Korea and took up a position with Samsung Electronics soon afterward. We had a nice going away lunch for Haklae with the rest of the team from the Social Software Unit (picture below).

After the WebCamp workshop on social networks

Posted Thu, 03/08/2007 - 19:23 by John Breslin

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A great day by my account at least (and by some others that I overheard!) was had at the WebCamp workshop on social networks held at DERI, NUI Galway yesterday.

Considering the short notice of just nine days, there was an impressive turnout of between 50 and 60 people, and as well as six talks in the morning we had some interesting "birds of a feather" discussion sessions in the afternoon.

DM110 - Week 4 - Social Networks

Posted Wed, 01/31/2007 - 18:10 by John Breslin

DM110 Emerging Web Media is a module that I teach to the Masters in Digital Media course at the Huston Film School, National University of Ireland, Galway. Yesterday, I was talking about social network theory (in brief) and online social network services (SNS). You can view the slides below.

Blogging from the Drupal Ireland Meetup

Posted Sat, 01/13/2007 - 18:49 by John Breslin

We're having some interesting talks at the first Drupal Ireland Meetup in DERI, NUI Galway today. Alan Burke has talked about the views module in Drupal, and Vincent Jordan is now talking about Drupal 5 multi-site installations (I also gave a SIOC module and taxonomies presentation earlier). Looking forward to the rest of the talks (aggregators by Aidan Finn, webforms and jQuery by Stéphane Corlosquet, and CCK by Alan Burke). Also in attendance are Haklae Kim, Sukhyung Hwang from DERI, and Gerry Shanahan from boards.ie.

Ina's last day at DERI

Posted Thu, 08/31/2006 - 18:05 by John Breslin

A farewell message to Ina O'Murchu, who is finishing her MSc degree scholarship today at DERI's Semantic Web Cluster (in the Social Software Subcluster). I was co-supervisor (with Stefan Decker) for Ina's masters project on augmenting local communities online with semantic technologies.

DERI Press Release: "Galway resident nominated for top internet award"

Posted Mon, 10/24/2005 - 22:05 by John Breslin

For the same reason that Damien Mulley outlined on his blog entry about the IIA Net Visionary awards (namely boards.ie's Tom Murphy won last year), and mainly because there are more deserving nominees, I don't expect to win an award for "Social Contribution" in November...