Re: Ian Horrocks on May 17 in DKG/SWSA talk series

Dear all,

Ian's talk will start in 15 mins.

Here is a link to the stream on Youtube:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfb04V8WY6Y


Best,
Olaf


On fre, 2023-05-12 at 07:20 +0000, Olaf Hartig wrote:
> Dear all,
> 
> Here is a reminder of next Wednesday's talk by Ian Horrocks in the
> DKG/SWSA online talk series (details below). The talk will be streamed
> in the following Youtube channel.
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/@costdkg4356/streams

> 
> Best regards,
> Olaf
> 
> 
> On Mon, 2023-04-24 at 04:49 +0000, Olaf Hartig wrote:
> > 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 Wednesday, 17 May 2023 15:45:34 UTC