Senior Researcher and Consultant
phone: + 43 1 23 64 002-13
fax: + 43 1 23 64 002-99
email: lyndon DOT nixon AT sti2 DOT org
Bio
Dr. Lyndon J B Nixon joined STI International as senior postdoctoral researcher in November 2008.
He works as a workpackage leader in the IP NoTube (semantic television) and Infrastructures project SEALS (benchmarking semantic tools). Additionally he contributes to the projects Service Web 3.0 (EU support action for Semantic Services and SOA), SARID and SARIT (Austrian projects for dissemination and training) and Future Internet Austria (platform for Future Internet activities in Austria). He also contributes to the STI Education and Roadmapping services. His project activities mainly cover Web technology deployment, use case management, technology roadmapping, dissemination and exploitation support and training.
Previously he was a researcher at the Free University of Berlin, where he acted as Industry Area Co-Manager of the EU NoE KnowledgeWeb and double Workpackage Leader in the EU STREP TripCom. In KnowledgeWeb, Dr. Nixon organized and led activities promoting the transfer of semantic technology to industry. while in TripCom research was performed in distributed and coordinated semantic systems. He received his PhD in January 2007 with the topic 'Semantic Web enabled Multimedia Presentation system'.
His research interests cover multimedia annotation and processing, augmentation of media with associated content and interactive interfaces to mobile and TV content. He also pursues activities in education and training in semantic technology as well as transfer of semantic technology to industry.
Publications
Most recent publications are:
"Television and the Future Internet: the NoTube project", Lora Aroyo, Lyndon Nixon, Stefan Dietze and the NoTube consortium at the Future Internet Symposium (FIS 2009) Poster and Demos Session. Sept 2009.
"Supporting Experimentation via an Evaluation Infrastructure for Semantic Technologies: the SEALS project", with Raúl Garcia-Castro, Asunción Goméz-Peréz and Liliana Cabral.In the Future Internet Symposium 2009, Posters and Demos session. In Berlin, Germany, Sept 2009.
"NoTube - making TV a medium for personalised interaction", Lyndon Nixon and Lora Aroyo at the European Interactive TV Conference (EuroITV 2009) Posters Track. June 2009.
Semantic Distribution and Querying of a Multimedia Content Marketplace using Triple Space Computing, with Kia Teymourian![]() , Philipp Obermeier![]() , David de Francisco, German Toro del Valle, Goekhan Coskun. In the Second Canadian Semantic Web Working Symposium, in Kelowna, BC, Canada, May 2009.
Towards a component-based framework for developing Semantic Web Applications, with Raul Garcia Castro and Oscar Munoz Garcia. In Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC 2008), Bangkok, Thailand, February 2009.
Efficient Content Location in Massively Distributed Triplespaces, with Kia Teymourian. In Semantic Extensions to Middleware: Enabling Large Scale Knowledge Applications (SEMELS '08) workshop at OTM 2008, Monterrey, Mexico, November 2008.
Semantic Web take-off in an Industry perspective, with Alain Leger, Johannes Heinecke, Pavel Shvaiko, Jean Charlet, Paola Hobson and Francois Goasdoue in Semantic Web Methodologies for E-Business Applications: Ontologies, Processes and Management Practices, IGI Global, October 2008
Events
- Co-organizer, Service Web Engineering (SWEng), at ICWE 2010, Vienna, Austria, July 2010
- Co-organizer, Future Television: integrating the Social and Semantic Web, at EuroITV 2010, Tampere, Finland, June 2010
- News from the Front, ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete, June 2010
- Co-organizer, Evaluation of Ontology-based Tools (EON 2010) at ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete, June 2010
- Co-organizer, Enterprise Service Web at BIS 2010, Berlin, Germany, May 2010
Programme Committees:
- SEMAPRO 2010, Florence, Italy, October 2010
- I-SEMANTICS 2010, Graz, Austria, September 2010
- Demos, ESWC 2010, Heraklion, Crete, June 2010
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