External Activities
Appointments / Memberships: External Bodies

• Member, Irish Computer Society
• Member, IEEE Computer Society
• External examiner DIT

• Member, Cognitive Science Society
• Member, Program Board, Irish Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Science (AICS) conference.

• Secretary, Irish Computer Society
• Fellow, Irish Computer Society
• Member, Institute of Management Consultants in Ireland


• Member, Institute for Engineers in Ireland

• Member, Association for Learning Technology, UK
• Member, Bath Action Research Group, U.K
• Mentor on TeachNet Ireland Project

• Member, Association for Computing Machinery
• External Examiner, Carlow Institute of Technology

• Member, program committee for the Workshop on Intermediate Representation Engineering for the Java Virtual Machine

• Fellow, Institute of Statisticians
• Member, Statistical Society of Ireland

• Member, International Society for Adaptive Behavior

• Council Member, Economic and Social Studies
• Member Executive, Irish Statistical Association
• Member, Operational Research Society (UK)

• Internal examiner for dissertation: Noel O' Hara, "Hierarchical Impostors for the Flocking Algorithm in Three Dimensional Space"

• Member, Irish Computer Society
• Member, British Computer Society
• External examiner, M.Sc. Thesis Dundalk Institute of Technology

• Member, EATCS European Association for Theoretical Computer Science
• Member, EAPLS European Association for Programming Languages and Systems

• Member, ACM


• External Examiner for DIT

• Member, International Scientific Committee and Proceedings Review panel, VECPAR 2002, (Vector and Parallel Processing), Porto, Portugal


• Invited adjudicator of student paper prize committee, VECPAR 2002
• Reviewer for papers submitted to XIV World AIDS Congress 2002, Barcelona, Spain
• Statistical assessor (editorial panel) IJPM (Irish Journal of Psychological Medicine) since 1989
• St. Patrick's College Research Committee
• Irish Research Council for Science, Technology and Engineering
• Reviewer for ZentralBlatt MATH, (Ed. European Mathematical Society, Heidelberg Academy of Sciences and Fachinformationszentrum, Karlsruhe), 2001
• Royal Statistical Society - (former Fellow, now CStat.)
• Member, Institute of Physics ( MinstP. CPhys.)
• Member, European Physical Society
• Member, International Biometric Society
• Member, Association Res. in Med. and Science (UK)
• Member, Operations Res. and Man. Soc. Ireland

• Member, program committees for following conferences:
  Irish Workshop on Formal Methods, 2001
• Digital Circuits and Integrated Systems, 2001
• Member, Institute of Electrical & Electronic Engineering (IEEE)
• Member, IEEE Computer Society
• Associate Member, Institute of Electrical Engineers (IEE)

• Member, Program Committee for 7th International Conference on Database Systems for Advanced Applications, Hong Kong, April 2001
• Member, Program Committee for the Second Meeting of the North American Chapter of the Association for Computational Linguistics, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, 2-7 June 2001
• Member, Program Committee of the European Colloqium on IR Research (formerly: BCS-IRSG Colloquium on IR Research) Darmstadt, Germany on April 4-6 2001
• Member, Program Committee of the Twenty-Fourth Annual International ACM SIGIR Conference on Research and Development in Information Retrieval, September 9 - 13, 2001, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
• Member, Program Committee for the ACM SIGIR'01 Workshop on Information Retrieval Techniques for Speech Applications New Orleans, Louisiana, September 13, 2001
• Member, Program Committee for the 3rd All-Russian Scientific Conference on "Digital Libraries: Advanced Methods And Technologies, Digital Collections", Petrozavodsk, Russia, September, 2001
• Member, Information and Communications Technology Advisory Panel for Science Foundation Ireland
• Fellow, Irish Computer Society
• Member, ACM, and of the IEEE Computer Society
• Associate Editor of the ACM Transactions on Information Systems
• Area editor (Multimedia) of the Information Retrieval Journal (Kluwer)
• Member, Editorial Board of Information Processing and Management
  
• Appointed external examiner for PhD thesis, City University, London, September 2001
• Appointed external examiner for M.Sc. thesis University College Dublin, Jan 2001

• Director of the National Centre for Language Technology NCLT, Dublin City University, [http://www.computing.dcu.ie/nclt/]
• External Examiner, D.Phil., University of Ulster, Faculty of Informatics, Jordanstown, Belfast, 7th June 2001
• Member, ACL, Association for Computational Linguistics, 75 Paterson Street, New Brunswick, NJ 08901, USA
• Member, FoLLI, The European Association for Logic, Language and Information, FWI, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Member, ILFGA, The International Lexical Functional Grammar Association, CSLI, Stanford University, CA, USA
• Member, SLIG/LRC, Software Localization Interest Group and the Localisation Resources Centre, UCD, University College Dublin, Belfield, Dublin 4, Ireland

• Member, IEI
• Member, IEEE
• Member, IEEE Computer Society
• Executive Committee Member AIAI (Artificial Intelligence Association of Ireland)
• Schools Liaison Officer for Post Primary Education Technology

• Member, Association for Computational Linguistics
• Member, European Association for Computational Linguistics
• Member, European Association for Machine Translation
• Member, European Association for Computer-Aided Language Learning
• Member, Software Localisation Interest Group (SLIG)