1. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINDUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SMI || NCSR || CDVP The Adaptive Information Cluster First Annual Conference Professor Dermot Diamond Crowne Plaza Hotel Dublin 12 th November 2004

2. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINDUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SMI || NCSR || CDVP

3. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINDUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SMI || NCSR || CDVP AIC People –Dermot Diamond National Centre for Sensors Research, Dublin City University, Vice-President of Research at DCU and PI in the area of sensor research; –Alan Smeaton, Noel O’Connor Centre for Digital Video Processing, Dublin City University, PI in video and other media/information processing; –Barry Smyth Smart Media Institute, University College Dublin, PI in personalisation, recommender systems, mobile computing; –Gregory O’Hare Smart Media Institute, University College Dublin, PI in agent software, ubiquitous computing and robotics; –Mark Keane Smart Media Institute, University College Dublin, PI in user modelling, learning and cognition See www.adaptiveinformation.iewww.adaptiveinformation.ie

4. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINDUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SMI || NCSR || CDVP Advisory Board Nick Jennings –Professor of Computer Science, Southampton University Rob Milne –Founder and Managing Director of Intelligent Applications, Livingston, Scotland Mike Pazzani –Division Director of Information and Intelligent Systems, NSF Thomas Sikora –Professor and Director of the Communications Systems Group, Technical University Berlin Gabriel Silberman –Programme Director, Centre for Advanced Studies, IBM and Member of the IBM Academy of Technology David Walt –Robinson Professor of Chemistry, Tufts University, Massachusetts

5. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINDUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SMI || NCSR || CDVP SFI ‘Cluster’ Award - AIC NCSRDCUNCSRDCU CDVPDCUCDVPDCU SMIUCDSMIUCD Academic Core IBM Ireland EricssonEricsson Changing Worlds Industry Core Mitsubishi Electric RL Adaptive Information Cluster (October 2003): Powerful combination of information generation technologies (sensors, video, audio), wireless networking, data extraction (software agents), personalised feedback…. Scale: €5.6 million; Duration: 4 years VISIT: www.adaptiveinformation.net/home.asp

6. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINDUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SMI || NCSR || CDVP Reliability - Source Fusion & Adaptive Systems Integration Information Extraction Sensors Video Audio LOAC Devices Adaptive Operation Agent Migration Personalised Feedback STAKEHOLDERS

7. UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLINDUBLIN CITY UNIVERSITY SMI || NCSR || CDVP The Goal Achieve SFI ‘Centre for Science and Engineering Technology’ Status within 12-18 months Quantum leap in scale –Identify gaps in our research capabilities –Build and strengthen academic and industry partnership –Develop relationships with other agencies and public service providers, end users…