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Congratulations to Drs Kenneth Kennedy and Mark Dunne who accepted their PhDs at the DIT graduation on Saturday 19th October. Well done doctors!

Dr Patrick Linstrom successfully defended his thesis, “Handling Concept Drift in the Context of Expensive Labels”, at a viva on 14th October, 2013. Well done Dr Paddy!

The AIRC currently has a fully funded PhD position in machine learning. Details are given below and candidates interested in making an application should visit: http://dit.ie/researchandenterprise/graduateresearchschool/fundedphdprogrammes/science/#d.en.67013 Project Description: Project Description: Inductive-machine-learning-based automated fraud detection systems are best treated as a regression problem, and rely on large collections of historical data […]

Congratulations to Dr. Mark Dunne who completed his viva this morning in impressive style. Mark’s thesis title is “The Turning, Stretching and Boxing Technique: A Direction Worth Looking Towards”. Well done Mark.

Congratulations to Dr. Kenneth Kennedy how successfully defended his PhD thesis, “Credit Scoring Using Machine Learning” on the 2nd of May 2013. Well done Ken!

Dr. John Kelleher and Dr. Robert Ross recently organized a the 3rd CoSLI Workshop on Spatial Language Interpretation and Generation in Potsdam Germany. The workshop was co-located with the 10th International Conference on Computational Semantics and was co-organized with Dr. Simon Dobnik, from the University of Gothenburg. Held on the […]

Last Friday the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton T.D. announced details of a €1 million initial investment in a research programme in data analytics. Top-tier multinational and Irish ICT companies will drive the research agenda at the technology centre, called CeADAR (The Centre for Applied Data Analytics […]

Lingle (www.lingleonline.com), the result of a DIT Applied Intelligence Research Centre and NDRC commercialisation collaboration, was covered in the Irish Times last Friday as part of their Enterprise Ireland Big Ideas Show coverage: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/finance/2011/1007/1224305381508.html

Rong Hu from the Applied Intelligence Research Centre successfully defended her PhD thesis on active learning for text classification on Thursday the 8th of September 2011. Well done Rong!

There was a nice story on Lingle, the results of a collaborative translational research project between DIT and the National Digital Research Centre, in the Innovation section of the Irish Times on Friday the 25th of February. The full article is available from the Irish Times website here.