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Senior Researcher and Consultant, Trainer in Semantic Technologies

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 European IP NoTube (semantic television) and  Infrastructures project SEALS (benchmarking semantic tools), as well as supports Future Internet Austria (platform for Future Internet activities in Austria). Since June 2010, he is project coordinator for the Future Internet support action SOFI. Later this year he will start work in the European Network of Excellence PlanetData as well as the Austrian project SmartReality. 

Previously he has contributed to the projects Service Web 3.0 (EU support action for Semantic Services and SOA), SARID and SARIT (Austrian projects for dissemination and training).  as well as 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 Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (2001-2003) and the Free University of Berlin (2004-2008), 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 based on triplespace technology.  

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. Training activities are co-ordinated by the STI initiative SemSphere, while consultancy and technology transfer will be a service of the STI Research GmbH. 

 

Publications


Most recent publications are:

"NoTube: making the Web part of personalised TV", Balthasar Schopman, Dan Brickley, Lora Aroyo, Chris van Aart, Vicky Buser, Ronald Siebes, Lyndon Nixon, Libby Miller, Véronique Malaise, Michele Minno, Michele Mostarda, Davide Palmisano and Yves Raimond. In Proceedings of the WebSci10: Extending the Frontiers of Society Online. Apr 2010.

 

"Future of the Internet of Services for Industry: the ServiceWeb 3.0 Roadmap", Lyndon Nixon, Dave Lambert, Agata Filipowska, and Elena Simperl, Poster at Future Internet Assembly (FIA) Stockholm, November 2009


"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.

 

Events and Participations:

Organization and Programme Committees:

  • Programme Advisor, ESTC 2010, Vienna, Austria, December 2010

    PC, ISWC 2010 Doctoral Consortium, Shanghai, China, November 2010

    PC, SEMAPRO 2010, Florence, Italy, October 2010

    PC, I-SEMANTICS 2010, Graz, Austria, September 2010

    Co-organizer, Future Enterprise Systems (FES), at FIS 2010, Berlin, Germany, September 2010