"Enabling Open Access to Scientific Data and Information within
the Modern Knowledge Economy; the Case for a Scientific Commons”

Royal Irish Academy
Dublin, Ireland ~ 12 April 2006

A panel discussion organised by CODATA, the Committee on Data for Science and Technology, under the aegis of the Royal Irish Academy

Mark Keane

Prof. Mark Keane joins SFI from University College Dublin where he is currently Chair of Computer Science and Associate Dean of Science.

Prof. Keane will play a pivotal role in building on SFI’s investments in academic research in the fields underpinning ICT in Ireland and over the ongoing development of the skills, knowledge and research that will be produced by these investments in the future. He will also seek to grow SFI’s strategic and external partnerships with industry and academia in Ireland.
Prof. Keane has made significant contributions in the fields of Cognitive Science and Artificial Intelligence in the areas of analogy, case-based reasoning and creativity. He is the founding Director of the Smart Media Institute at UCD. He has published over 100 publications, including 16 books, that are cited widely in the academic literature. He is co-author of an authoritative textbook in Cognitive Science now entering its fifth edition. The book, written with Mike Eysenck (University of London), has sold over 300,000 copies in English and has been translated in to Portuguese, Hungarian, Italian and Chinese.

Since his appointment as Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin in 1998, Prof. Keane has grown the number of postgraduate researchers from 15 to 170, expanded the number of faculty staff in the department, and introduced four new degree programmes. The research income to the Department is has increased to €4m per annum in 2003.
In August 2004, Prof. Keane was awarded an ECCAI Fellowship by the European Co-ordinating Committee on Artificial Intelligence for his contribution to the field. He is one of only 100 such fellows in Europe to be honoured in this way. Prof. Keane has also been awarded the Psychology Society of Ireland’s highest honour, the Special Award for Merit, for his work on human creativity.

Prof. Keane holds a BA in Pure Psychology from University College Dublin and a PhD in Cognitive Psychology from Trinity College, University of Dublin. His career to date includes periods as a Research Associate in the Department of Computer Science and Statistics at Queen Mary College, University of London and a Research Fellow in Cognitive Science with The Open University. Prof. Keane joined the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin as a Lecturer in 1990 and was made a Fellow of TCD in 1994 at the age of 33. From there, he moved to his current position as Chair at the Department of Computer Science at University College Dublin in 1998.

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