The ExpertFinder Initiative

Our keynote speaker will be Ora Lassila - a Research Fellow at the Nokia Research Center Cambridge, working on Semantic Web and its applications to mobile and ubiquitous computing.

Bio:
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Ora Lassila is a Research Fellow at the Nokia Research Center in Cambridge (Massachusetts, USA). His research work focuses on the applications of Semantic Web technology to mobile devices and personal information management. Lassila pioneered the Semantic Web vision in the late 1990s, and has worked on many of the fundamental aspects of the technology. He holds a Ph.D. from Helsinki University of Technology.

Title:"Does Your Mobile Device Need to be Socially Aware? A Semantic Web Perspective"
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Abstract:
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Personal Information Management (PIM) has evolved from simple maintenance of user-created data to access and management of data relevant and related to the user and the user's social network. Users also typically have multiple systems/devices they use for maintaining (and communicating with) their social network. In this talk I will discuss the need for pervasive awareness of the user's social context. Semantic Web technologies offer possibilities for a rich representation of social networks, in turn enabling new types of applications and functionality.