A Happy New MUSIL Year to all!

MUSIL starts 2010 with a great year behind it: We have

  • expanded our range of research topics (going seriously into sensor semantics, broadening our research on social aspects, engaging in cultural aspects again, taking up process ontology work, advancing rapidly with grounding),
  • strengthened our collaborations within ifgi and worldwide,
  • got more publications accepted than ever before,
  • contributed to the successful take-off of the IRTG PhD program,
  • added more international members to the group, and
  • generally feel more excited about and respected for our line of research than a year ago.

    • Will 2010 be equally good or even better? On the down side, we will thoroughly miss Jano, our post doc, who is taking up a faculty position at Penn State, for which we wish him the best of luck (and us to stay in close touch)! At the same time, we are very happy that Tomi Kauppinen will join MUSIL as IRTG post-doc on March 1. Tomi holds an M.Sc. degree in Computer Science and is about to defend his Ph.D. thesis in Media Technology at the Helsinki University of Technology. His dissertation is about semantic modeling of spatio-temporal resources. I am sure Tomi will help us to become more active on the temporal axis – a natural outgrowth of his thesis as well as of our sensor, process, trust, and cultural heritage work. Together with seven or more IRTG students scheduled to take up semantic integration work in Muenster and Bremen around April, the new year certainly holds great promise!

    I want to thank all current and past MUSIL members, as well as our partners everywhere, for making this enterprise so much fun. Our success is probably mostly due to this enjoyment, together with MUSIL’s unique approach to research, combining formal and humanistic paradigms (true to Robert Musil). Or, as Jano said before leaving: “in MUSIL, it does not matter what you do, as long as you are good at it – and talk to the visitors”.
    Werner

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