Alan F. Smeaton MRIA[1] is a researcher and academic at Dublin City University.[2] He was founder of TRECVid,[3] and the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust Leadership Award in 2009.[citation needed] Smeaton is a founding director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University (2013–2019).[4] Prior to that he was a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies (2008–2013).[5] As of 2013, Smeaton was serving on the editorial board of the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, Information Processing and Management.[6] Smeaton was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in May 2013, becoming DCU's 10th member.[7][8] In 2012 Smeaton was appointed by Minister Sean Sherlock to the board of the Irish Research Council.[9]

Published works

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Books by Alan Smeaton include:

  • Smeaton, Alan F (1987). Using Parsing of Natural Language as Part of Document Retrieval.
  • Smeaton, Alan F; Dublin, National Institute for Higher Education (1989). Information Retrieval and Natural Language Processing.
  • Agosti, Maristella; Smeaton, Alan F (1996). Information retrieval and hypertext. Springer. ISBN 9780792397106.
  • Smeaton, Alan F; Society, British Computer (1990). AI and cognitive science '89: Dublin City University, 14-15 September, 1989. Springer. ISBN 9783540196082.

Representative Papers by Alan Smeaton include:

References

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  1. ^ President Welcomes New Members to the Academy Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine - Royal Irish Academy, 31 May 2013
  2. ^ "Alan Smeaton's Home Pages". computing.dcu.ie. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  3. ^ "Prof. Alan Smeaton | The Insight Centre for Data Analytics". www.insight-centre.org. Archived from the original on 3 November 2019. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  4. ^ Insight
  5. ^ Professor Alan Smeaton Archived 10 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine | Centre for Sensor Web Technologies
  6. ^ "Alan F. Smeaton MRIA FIEEE". Google Scholar. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  7. ^ Ahlstrom, Dick. "The professor who helps people find things". The Irish Times. Retrieved 3 November 2019.
  8. ^ President Welcomes New Members to the Academy Archived 21 September 2013 at the Wayback Machine - Royal Irish Academy, 31 May 2013
  9. ^ [1] Archived 26 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine Irish Research Council.
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