Dublin City University
School of Computing

• Organised the 1999 "All Ireland School's programming competition",  45 students attended, 4 were selected for the international competition.
• Member of the International Jury at the 11th International Olympiad in Turkey, 10th-17th Oct 1999.

• Participated in online collaborative learning courses with the following Universities:
  • University of Sheffield
  • University of Greenwich
  • Southern Cross University

• Security and open systems consultant to E-Certify (Canada) and E-Sync Networks (USA).
• Auditor for EU Esprit and ACTS Projects.

• Visiting researcher, Centre de Recherche en Informatique de Nancy, France, July 1998.

• Statistical and Computing Consultant to the Irish Council of General Practitioners.

• Vice Chairman of COST Action 258 "Naturalness of Speech Synthesis"
• Coordinated SOCRATES exchange with the Universite de Franche-Comte
• Visited staff and students at the Universite de Franche-Comte and the Universite d'Aix-en-Provence, December 1998, December 1997.
• As Vice-Chairman of COST 258, attended meetings and reviewed funding proposals
• Received a visiting researcher from ICP Grenoble, for a two-week collaboration on evaluation techniques for speech prosody
• From Gestures in Text to Gestures in Speech', poster presented at ORAGE 1998, Besancon, France
• Reviewed manuscripts for Cambridge University Press
• Refereed articles for International Journal of Speech Technolog and for Language and Speech.

• Co-organised a workshop on "Project Failures" at 9th International Conference Software Technology & Engineering Practice Pittsburgh, USA, September, 1999
• Presented a course on "Criteria for Choosing a Programming Language" at Amhdal DMR, 9 February 1999

• Research Visit, May 1999 to Univ. of Porto, Portugal, working on collaborative project on direct and MC simulation models with Prof. J. Duarte, Dept. of Physics. (Forbairt/Ent. Ireland ICT grant)/jointly - meeting for VECPAR 2000 committee.
• Attended European Physical Society conference on Applications of Physics in Financial Analysis, TCD Dublin, July 15th -17th 1999.

• Reviewer of ESPRIT project VICAR, Graz (Austria, Nov 98), Baden-Baden (Germany, May 99).
• Reviewer of Telematics project MAID, Eindhoven (Dec 98).
• Reviewer for Australian Academy of Sciences Travel Grant Applications.
• Reviewer for Hong Kong Research Committee.
• Reviewer for Australian Research Council Large Research Grants Scheme.
• Assessment panel for Enterprise Ireland Strategic Research (IT) proposals.
• Member of the Advisory Panel for the British Library Research & Innovation Centre.
• Reviewer for Health Research Board grant applications.
• Reviewer for Royal Society Exchange Program grant applications.
• Reviewer for UK Arts and Humanities Research Board Research Grants Applications.
• Reviewer for Journals:
  • International Journal of Digital Libraries
  • Information Processing and Management
  • Information Retrieval
• Member, Information Technologies working group for Enterprise Ireland

• Reviewer for IEEE Transactions on Image Processing
• Member of the Programme Committee for the Irish Machine Vision and Image Processing Conference (IMVIP 99).
• Collaboration with Dr. Patrick Waldron of the Dept of Economics, Trinity College, Dublin, and Sabrina Keenan. Worked on the analysis of horse-racing data.
• Consultant for Mater Private Hospital on the analysis of facial images.

• Co-organiser of a Dagstuhl Castle seminar with Dr. Valeria de Paiva, Xerox PARC, CA, and Dr. Eike Ritter, University of Birmingham, U.K. on "Linear Logic and Applications", Dagstuhl Castle.

• Developed tailored Object oriented models for software development for small software houses with Centre for Software Engineering

• Attended CogSci Conference in University College Dublin
• Attended Research Seminars in Computational Linguistics in Trinity College Dublin.
• Attended European Conference on Artificial Life (ECAL 99) Lausanne, Switzerland.
• Attended EWLR European Workshop on Learning Robots EPFL, Lausanne, Switzerland

• Reviewer of the Journal of Experimental and Theoretical Artificial Intelligence, Taylor & Francis, London, UK, November 1998.
• Steering Group Meeting of the Socrates Thematic Network in Speech Communication Sciences, Amersfoort, Holland, January 1999.
• Leonardo-funded VOCALL project, Dublin, Ireland, March 1999.
• Leonardo-funded VOCALL project, Lisbon, Portugal, April 1999.
• Steering Group Meeting of the Socrates Thematic Network in Advanced Computing in the Humanities, Manchester, UK, July 1999.