Computer science distinguished lecture
| Date/Time: | Thursday, 22 Sep 2011 at 3:40 pm |
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| Location: | Lee Liu Auditorium, Howe Hall |
| Cost: | Free |
| Phone: | 515-294-6516 |
| Channel: | College of Liberal Arts and Sciences |
| Categories: | Lectures |
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The Semantic Web is gaining momentum. Driven by over 10 years of focused project funding in the US and the EU, Semantic Web Technologies are now entering application areas in industry, academia, government, and the open Web. Central to this transfer into practice is the Linked Open Data effort, which has already resulted in the publication, on the Web, of billions of pieces of information in Semantic Web compatible data formats such as RDF and OWL. This provides the basic data needed for establishing intelligent system applications on the Web in the tradition of Semantic Web Technologies.
Pascal Hitzler is assistant professor at the Kno.e.sis Center for Knowledge-enabled Computing, which is an Ohio Center of Excellence at Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, U.S.A. From 2004 to 2009, he was Akademischer Rat at the Institute for Applied Informatics and Formal Description Methods (AIFB) at the University of Karlsruhe in Germany, and from 2001 to 2004 he was postdoctoral researcher at the Artificial Intelligence institute at TU Dresden in Germany -which included a 3-month visit at CWRU in 2003. In 2001 he obtained a PhD in Mathematics from the
National University of Ireland, University College Cork, and in 1998 a Diplom (Master equivalent) in Mathematics from the University of Tübingen in Germany. His research record lists over 160 publications in such diverse areas as semantic web, neural-symbolic integration, knowledge representation and reasoning, denotational semantics, and set-theoretic topology. He is Editor-in-chief of the IOS Press journal "Semantic Web" and the IOS Press book series "Studies on the Semantic Web". He is vice-chair of the steering committee of the conference series on Web Reasoning and Rule Systems (RR). He is PC co-chair of ODBASE2011, ans recently was PC co-chair of RR2010, co-chair of the ESWC2011 "Reasoning" track, senior PC member of IJCAI-11, and cochair of the ISWC2010 "Semantic Web In Use" and "Industry" tracks. He is co-author of the W3C Recommendation "OWL 2 Primer" and of the textbook "Foundations of Semantic Web Technologies" by CRC Press, 2009, one of only seven "Outstanding Academic Titles" in Computer Science as listed by the American Library Association's Choice Magazine.
This lecture was made possible in part by the generosity of F. Wendell Miller, who left his entire estate jointly to Iowa State University and the University of Iowa. Mr. Miller, who died in 1995 at age 97, was born in Altoona, Illinois, grew up in Rockwell City, graduated from Grinnell College and Harvard Law School and practiced law in Des Moines and Chicago before returning to Rockwell City to manage his family's farm holdings and to practice law. His will helped to establish the F. Wendell Miller Trust, the annual earnings on which, in part, helped to support this activity.
For more information, see: http://www.pascal-hitzler.de.