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Photos from Conferences and Other Occasions, 1976 to date

• Graduation photos, 15 July 2010, at which I received the Teaching Prize: Joe Reddington, who was awarded PhD for his thesis "Improvements to Instruction Identification for Custom Instruction Set Design", won the College Team Teaching Prize with Professor Fionn Murtagh of the Computer Science Department and Dr Douglas Cowie of the English Department for their innovative project on team authoring.
• Graduation ceremony video, 15 July 2010.
• Following Daniel Barenboim, West-East Divan Orchestra, Prom 50, Royal Albert Hall, London, 24 August 2009, Beethoven's Fedelio. This photo was taken with a Motorola Razer. We were in East Choir. It was not the worst of vantage points for the singers, and interesting for the orchestra. It was truly outstanding vantage point on Daniel Barenboim.
• Classification Society and Interface Annual Meeting, St Louis, MO, June 2009 (photos from Innar Liiv).
  With Innar Liiv, winner of Distinguished Dissertation award.
  Other nominees for the Distinguished Dissertation with Innar and, to right, Sam Prins and Rebecca Nugent, Classification Society.
  Talk - Willem Heiser, Mel Janowitz, David Banks, and myself.
• SLDS Symposium on Learning and Data Science 2009, Université Paris-Dauphine, 1-4 April 2009. With Jean-Paul Benzéri. And: from talk.
• CARME, Rotterdam, 25-27 June 2007. Invited talk and same talk.
• Boris Mirkin, Buck McMorris, Mel Janowitz, Mel Janowitz (Buck), Xiaohui Liu, Xiaohui Liu, (Buck), Fionn (Buck), following the British Classification Society/Classification Society of North America meeting in Brunel University, 2 Feb. 2007.
• Photos from ADA-IV, Marseille, Sept. 2006, including Antoine Llebaria's sketches. (Password-protected: for access, email fmurtagh at acm dot org). Here is just one: Thanking Antoine (on my right) and Christian Surace for all the work.
• Photos from St Paul de Fenouillet, July/August 2006 (Password-protected: for it, email fmurtagh at acm dot org).
• Scenes from a building site (new lecture theatre nearing completion):
  Royal Holloway, July 2006, perimeter wall, and close-up. Thanks to Patrick Groenen for the photos and to Rafael Molina for the super-resolution presentation.
• Some photos from 2nd International Conference on p-Adic Mathematical Physics, Sept. 2005, Belgrade.
  With Igor Volovich
  Discussion after my talk
  Beside the Danube - I
  Beside the Danube - II
• Dec. 17, 2004, WS-Talk start-up meeting, with Josiane Mothe, Munich (photo Sandra Poulain). Photo at meeting (photo Burak Özcan), and another.
• Nov. 2004, taken for magazine article, RHUL
• Nov. 8, 2004, Kaleidoscope Trails meeting, London Knowledge Lab. Group photo, and another (photos: Kevin Walker).
• July 2004 at the International Federation of Classification Societies Conference in Chicago. Photos courtesy of Prof. Noboru Ohsumi.
  • With Japanese colleagues - Noboru Ohsumi, Tatsuo Otsu, Yasumasa Baba
  • With David Wishart
  • With David Wishart
  • With Phipps Arabie
  • And again with David Wishart
  • With Noboru Ohsumi
• 26 March 2003, University of Ulster, Magee
• The BCS Belfast Branch Medal for best student in Computer Science at Queen's University was won by Mark Baldrick. Picture of BCS Medal 2001 prize giving.
. Caption: Mark is pictured receiving the medal from the Branch Chairman Ian Stuart, with Prof. Fionn Murtagh of Queen's University looking on.
• From 1997 with: Prof. Anil Jain (Michigan), Prof. Fionn Murtagh (then Magee), Prof. John McCarthy (Stanford), Mayor Martin Bradley, Paul Mc Kevitt (then Denmark) and Dr Jon Campbell (then Magee) at the Derry City Guildhall, September, 1997 (courtesy The Derry Journal)
• MSc Computer Science class of '77. (Note: not my class. My MSc was by research, on information retrieval.)
• TCD Engineering Science class of '76. (And also many photos from the 25th Anniversary Reunion, August-September 2001.)

Family Photos, Etc.

• Photographs - family etc.
• Sorcha's school in Dublin - nearly 300 years old. Regretably closed now. Sorcha in 1999 photos. Notes: (i) one photo, 1970s class picture, is missing; (ii) email contact points etc. are no longer valid. Class of 1999.
• Sorcha graduation, 2005 Nov. 19, St Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin. DIT - Dublin Institute of Technology, International Business with Languages. Photo1. Photo2. Photo3. Photo4. Photo5. Photo6. Photo7. Photo8. Photo9.

Miscellaneous

• Current or former PhD students, Research Assistants, Research Fellows - Damien Guillaume (PhD ULP, now Paris), Philippe Poinçot (PhD ULP, now Paris), Thierry Daubos (PhD QUB, now Galway), Dr Zheng Gonghui (now Sydney), Zhang (Frank) Qing (MPhil, now Canada), Feng Tao (Barry, PhD QUB, now Southampton), Prof Tianzi Jiang (Research Fellow, now Beijing), Florent Arnould (Kelman-Tavrida, now France), Dr Munevver Kokuer (Coventry), Raquel Victoria Ventura-Miravet (PhD QUB, Spain), Tugba Taskaya (Surrey), Pedro Contreras (RHUL), Mohsen Farid, Huseyin Hacihabiboglu (PhD QUB, now Surrey), Banu Gunel (PhD QUB, now Surrey), Seamus Gormley (Ithaca Solutions, now QUB), Dr Xiaoyu Qiao (now London).
• Short biographical details: Short vita
• Preprints, incorporating arXiv: Research Communications for Scientists and Engineers e-preprint network, OSTI - Office of Scientific and Technical Information, US Dept. of Energy; and Dept. of Energy.
• Currency Converter: Xenon Labs
• Getting from A to B: Highways Agency, telematics data. Alternatively: AA Traffic News.
• FranceTerme Commission générale de terminologie et de néologie, Ministère de la Culture.
• "Generation of Greatness: The Idea of a University in an Age of Science", lecture by Edwin Land, MIT, 1957.
• "As We May Think", The Atlantic Monthly, Vannevar Bush, July 1945. (Some semi-reasonable photos.)