External Activities
Other External Activities

• Invited to review for ACM Crossroads Magazine [http://www.acm.org/crossroads] special issue on Parallel Computing Spring 2002.
• Sponsored the building of a 25-node PC Cluster by Red-Brick in Summer 2001. It is envisaged that among the many uses of this cluster will be for final year and postgraduate projects, as well as a contribution to GRID-Ireland.

• Reviewer of papers for Annals of Software Engineering.
• Reviewer of papers for Software Engineering track of ACM Symposium on Applied Computing, 2002.
• Programme Committee of EuroSPI 2001.

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

• Reviewer of Journal of Interactive Media in Education September 2001.

• Reviewer for Third Scottish Functional Programming Workshop, 2001.
• Reviewer for ACM Symposium on Computing, 2002.
• Reviewer for IEEE International Conference on Formal Engineering Methods.

• Statistical Adviser to the Irish College of General Practitioners.
• Reviewer for Pearson Publishers.
• Participation at Teleconference with the Royal College of General practitioners and the ICGP.
• Statistical Adviser to Performance Management Consultants.
• Statistical Analysis of 2001 MICGP Examinations,Report to Irish

• Media interviews: BBC / New Scientist.

• Refereed (i.e. peer reviewed) publications "The Effect of Pool Depth on System Evaluation in TREC" Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology, 52(2001) 570-574 with Sabrina Keenan and Alan F. Smeaton.

• External examiner for BSc in Computer Sytems at University of Limerick.
• Reviewer for IEEE Software.
• Reviewer for Journal of Information Systems.
• Member of Programme Committee for the 7th. European Conference on Software Quality.
• Member of Programme Committee for IRMA2002.

• Member of the validation panel, HETAC National Certificate in eBusiness.
  External course adviser, Global Campus Project, Middlesex University, UK.
• Member, C.H.I.U. Teaching and Education panel investigating North/South co-operation projects.
• Reviewed manuscripts for Palgrave.
• Reviewed manuscripts for John Wiley.

• Programme board co-chair for Irish Workshop on Formal Methods 2001.

• Reviewed two books for Pearson Academic Press, 2001.

• Research Visit, Porto University, Portugal, May 2001, preliminary work on microscopic models for finance, (basis for previous /future grant applications under EI, ATRP 2001/2002).

• Project reviewer for EU Framework 5 project proposals.
• Project reviewer for Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership Programme.

• Member of assessment panel for Enterprise Ireland Research Innovation fund programme, 2001.
• Member of assessment panel for Enterprise Ireland Advanced Technology Research Program, 2001.
• Reviewer of research proposals to Australian Research Council, 2001.
• Scientific Co-ordinator of the track on retrieval from digital video, as part of the TREC Program, funded by NIST, DARPA and ARDA (US Government).
• Reviewer for the following Journals:-
  Journal of the American Society for Information Science.
  Journal of Digital Information.
  ACM Transactions on Information Systems.
  Information Processing and Management.

• Sutherland, A. and Wu, H collaborated with Dr. Frank Powell of the Regional Centre of Dermatology, Mater Private Hospital, Dublin, on analysis of facial images of patients suffering from rosacea and flushing.

• Reviewer: NAACL 2001, The Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2-7 June 2001.
• Reviewer: The Journal of Language, Logic and Information, Kluwer Academic Publishers.

• M.Sc. in Re-engineering, University of Limerick.
• Lecture series on Object-Oriented Paradigm April to May 2001.
• Seminar on Stategies and architectures for internet based development, Advanced Educational Software Ltd. January 2001.
• Seminar on Unified Modelling Language applied to Internet Software CineHub Ltd May 2001.

• Attended Research Seminars in Computational Linguistics in Trinity College Dublin.
• Attended International Workshop on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA 2001), Madrid, Spain.
• Attended World Conference on Internet and Word Wide Web (WebNet 2000), Texas, USA.

• Nawat CALL courseware: Interview published in El Diario de Hoy (El Salvador, in Spanish).
• Interviews with Universidad de El Salvador (university magazine and radio interview - in Spanish).
• Fundraising for El Salvador earthquake victims from staff and students of Computer Applications and co-ordination of fund distribution in El Salvador.

• Reviewer of "The ACM Transactions on Information Systems",Association for Computing Machinery, New York.
• Reviewer for the University of Ottawa Press, Canada.
• Reviewer for the ACL/EACL Workshop on Educational Resources for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France.
• Reviewer for the MT-Summit Workshop on Teaching Machine Translation, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
• Co-organised EACL-01 Workshop in Educational Resources for Computational Linguistics, Toulouse, France.[cf. http://www.irit.fr/ACTIVITES/EQ_ILPL/aclWeb/acl2001.shtml].
• Co-organised Workshop on Teaching Machine Translation, MT-Summit VIII, Santiago de Compostela, Spain [cf. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~away/EBMT.shtml