Some Photographs and Videos

Video introduction to the Special Issue on Astrostatistics, guest edited by myself, Tom Loredo (Cornell University) and Jean-Luc Starck (CEA, Saclay), Statistical Methodology (Elsevier), Volume 9, Issues 1-2, pages 1-284, January-March 2012. (Video)
Tracking and visualizing emotion: Correspondence Analysis is used to visualize the emotion-laden dialog in a central scene of the movie Casablanca. (See F Murtagh, A Ganz and S McKie, "The structure of narrative: the case of film scripts", Pattern Recognition, 42, 302-312, Feb. 2009.) (Video)
Seminar by Adam Ganz and myself, Microsoft Research Cambridge, "Metric and Ultrametric Modelling of Semantics and Change for Decision Making in Dynamic and Interactive Environments", 7 October 2011. (Video)
Nov. 2012, Prof Pam Weathers, Worcester Polytechnic Inst., outgoing Chair, and myself as incoming Chair, The Council for Frontiers of Knowledge (The CFK), at conference "Western Science Meets African Reality", Speke Center, Munyonyo (Kampala, Uganda).
May 2013, First International Conference on Models of Complex Hierarchic Systems and Non-Archimedean Analysis, Abacus Center, Mexico. (Minicourse presented on Data Analytics.)
1997: Anil Jain (Michigan State U.), John McCarthy (Stanford), Mayor Martin Bradley, Paul Mc Kevitt (then Aalborg, Denmark) and Jon Campbell (then U. Ulster) at the Derry City Guildhall, September, 1997 (courtesy The Derry Journal).
Jan. 2012, having awarded €16 million to Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, University of Limerick. With Mike Hinchey (left), Siobhán Clarke (right), Bashar Nuseibeh (Open U., fifth from left) and Minister of State, Research and Innovation, Seán Sherlock (fourth from left).
15 July 2010, RHUL, having been awarded Team Teaching Prize with Joe Reddington (and Douglas Cowie, English), for our joint work on "Project TooManyCooks: applying software design principles to fiction writing".
April 2009, with Jean-Paul Benzécri, at SLDS Symposium on Learning and Data Science 2009, Université Paris-Dauphine.
Feb. 2008, at lecture and IEEE Computer Society 60th Anniversary Award to David Parnas (right). Vincent Cunnane (then VP-R, U Limerick), Don Barry (President, U Limerick).

Prof. Fionn Murtagh, fmurtagh_at_acm _dot_org