Category Archives: academia

Commencing Countdown. Engines On.

By Simon | Published: February 24, 2010
It is rather late in the season for me to address this now but maybe by posting about it I will remind myself to try out some of these ideas next year (<ominous clouds/dark horizons>assuming there is a teaching next year for me</ominous clouds/dark horizons>). Over at casting out nines Robert has made a few [...]
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A Solution to the Plague of Fixed Term Contracts?

By Simon | Published: December 29, 2009
According to this Time Higher Ed. article, Ulster University is ring-fencing new permanent posts within the university so that suitable existing staff coming to the end of fixed-term contracts can be given an opportunity to take them on. This is the only university that I am aware of that is taking concrete, public steps to [...]
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Changes @ ARG:dundee

By Simon | Published: November 12, 2009
Recently a new project started in ARG:dundee, the argumentation research group at Dundee University. This project, the Dialectical Argumentation Machines project, is quite exciting and involves building tools for working with arguments on the web.The project abstract is as follows: Humans use argument to express disagreement, to reach consensus and to both formulate and convey reasoning. [...]
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Caliornia Odyssey Day 7

By Simon | Published: August 4, 2009
My final day in Pasadena I had a few hours to kill in the morning because my flight wasn’t until early evening so I packed, booked my supershuttle ride, checked out, left my luggage in the hotel luggage facility, and went for breakfast in the old town. I spent a couple of hours wandering around [...]
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Caliornia Odyssey Day 6 & IJCAI Day 4

By Simon | Published: August 4, 2009
The final day of IJCAI was much better in terms of topics that I had either an active research interest in, or at least sufficient background understanding to get something out of the sessions. Of particular interest today were the Coalitions and Coordination session and the Negotiation and Commitment session, both chaired by Michael Wooldridge, [...]
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