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Whilst working on the ITA Project - a collaborative research programme between the UK MoD and the US Army Research Laboratory - over the last few years, one of my primary areas has been to research around controlled natural languages, and working with Cardiff University and IBM UK’s Emerging … Read more (5 minute read)

his week I begin lecturing a module for Cardiff School of Computer Science and Informatics’ postgraduate MSc course in Advanced Computer Science. The module is called Web and Social Computing, with the main aim being to introduce students to the concepts of social computing and web-based … Read more (2 minute read)

Last weekend I went to CFHack Open Sauce Hackathon. I worked in a team with Chris, Ross and Matt. We started work on eartub.es, which is a web application for suggesting movies based on their sound tracks. We had several ideas for requirements we wanted to meet but, due to the nature of hackathons, … Read more (2 minute read)

Next week I, along with others in a team, am taking part in Cardiff Open Sauce Hackathon. If you’re in the area and feel like joining in for the weekend then sign up at the link above. he hackathon is a two-day event in which teams work to ‘hack together’ smallish projects, which … Read more (1 minute read)

Each January the School of Computer Science hosts a poster day in order for the research students to demonstrate their current work to other research students, research staff and undergraduates. The event lets members of the department see what other research is being done outside of their own group … Read more (1 minute read)

We recently held our DigiSocial Hackathon. This was a collaboration between the Schools of Computer Science and Social Sciences and was organised by myself and a few others. The website for the event is hosted here. The idea of the event was to try and encourage further ties between the different … Read more (2 minute read)