Ian Horrocks on May 17 in DKG/SWSA talk series

Dear all,

I am happy to announce the next talk in the online talk series [1] of the COST Action on Distributed Knowledge Graphs
(DKG) [2], in collaboration with the Semantic Web Science Association (SWSA) [3].

On May 17 at 18:00 CEST / 12:00 EDT / 0:00 CST, Ian Horrocks (University of Oxford) will talk about:

  "KR and the Semantic Web: What We Did Right (and Wrong)"

Synopsis: 
Augmenting the web to include some form of Knowledge Representation (KR) was one of the first directions for Semantic
Web research and led to the development of the OWL KR language(s) and the SPARQL query language. In this talk I will
recall the development of these languages and their genesis in foundational research, highlighting what I believe were
the many good design decisions as well as a few not so good. I will then go on to trace the development of KR systems
and applications based on these technologies and argue that this represents a significant success story for Semantc Web
research.

Bio: 
Ian Horrocks is a full professor in the Oxford University Department of Computer Science, a visiting professor in the
Department of Informatics at the University of Oslo and a co-founder of Oxford Semantic Technologies. He is also a
Fellow of the Royal Society, a member of Academia Europaea, a fellow of the European Association for Artificial
Intelligence (EurAI), a Fellow of the Alan Turing Institute and a British Computer Society Lovelace Medalist. His
research concerns the representation of knowledge, and the efficient manipulation of such knowledge by computers. He
played a leading role in establishing the Semantic Web as a significant research field, pioneering many of the
underlying logics, algorithms, optimisation techniques, and reasoning systems. He has contributed to the development of
several widely used reasoning systems including FaCT++, HermiT, Elk and RDFox. He has published more than 300 papers in
major international conferences and journals, winning best paper prizes at KR-98, AAAI-2010, and IJCAI-2017, and test of
time awards at ISWC-2013, KR-2020 and CADE-2021. He is one of the UK’s most highly cited computer scientists, with more
than 59,000 citations, and an h-index of 99.


Details on where the talk can attended will be announced closer to the event.

Best regards,
Olaf

[1] https://cost-dkg.eu/talks

[2] https://cost-dkg.eu/

[3] https://swsa.semanticweb.org/

Received on Monday, 24 April 2023 04:50:01 UTC