- From: Ian Horrocks <ian.horrocks@comlab.ox.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2007 15:59:27 +0100
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
- Cc: Owl Dev <public-owl-dev@w3.org>
I'm sure that everyone will want to join me in congratulating Boris Motik on his achievement in winning this year's ERCIM Cor Baayen Award. Boris is currently working at the Oxford University Computing Laboratory, but was until recently at the University of Manchester School of Computer Science, and prior to that was a PhD student in Rudi Studer's group at AIFB/FZI---all W3C member organisations. The award, created in 1995 to honour the first ERCIM President, is given annually to "a most promising young researcher in computer science and applied mathematics" (see http://www.ercim.org/activity/ cor-baayen.html). Boris received the award in recognition of his innovative and highly influential work on reasoning algorithms and systems for Description Logics, and in particular his work on scalable reasoning for OWL DL ontologies containing very large numbers of individuals. The quality of this work is indicated by the fact that, in spite of there being several very strong contenders for this year's award, the vote was unanimous amongst the 13 countries that evaluated the finalists. The award will be officially announced in the forthcoming ERCIM news, and Boris is expected to receive the award in Warsaw at the October meeting (22-24) of the ERCIM member directors, where he will also present a talk on his work. Regards, Ian
Received on Tuesday, 18 September 2007 15:00:06 UTC