Professor  Paul Mc Kevitt (P/ol Mac Dhaib/eid) is from Inishowen, D/un  Na nGall (Donegal), Ireland and Chair in  Intelligent MultiMedia  At the School  of Computing  & Intelligent  Systems, Faculty  of  Computing & Engineering, University of  Ulster, Magee,Derry/Londonderry,  Previously, he was  Associate Professor (Senior Lecturer) in the  School of Computer  Science, The  Queen's University  of Belfast,Northern  Ireland.   He has  been  Visiting  Professor of  Intelligent MultiMedia Computing  in the Institute of  Electronic Systems, Aalborg University,  Denmark and  a  British EPSRC  (Engineering and  Physical Sciences  Research  Council)  Advanced  Fellow in  the  Department  of Computer Science,  University of Sheffield,  England.  The Fellowship, commenced in  1994, and released him from  his Associate Professorship (tenured Lectureship) for 5 years to conduct full-time research on the integration  of natural  language, speech  and vision  processing.  He completed a Master's degree in Education (M.Ed.)  at the University of Sheffield in 1999, his Ph.D.  in Computer Science at the University of Exeter,  England in  1991,  his Master's  degree  in Computer  Science (M.S.)  at  New Mexico State University,  New Mexico, USA  in 1988 and his  Bachelor's   degree  in  Computer  Science   (B.Sc.,  Hons.)   at University College  Dublin (UCD), Ireland  in 1985.  He  has published numerous  papers  in   international  conferences  and  journals,  and research books  and is  Editor-in-Chief of the  international research journal,  Artificial  Intelligence  Review  (Springer).   His  primary research interests are in  Natural Language Processing (NLP) including the processing of pragmatics,  beliefs and intentions in dialogue.  He is also interested  in Philosophy, MultiMedia and the  general area of Artificial Intelligence.
He has extensive interest in Irish History and particularly in respect of Donegal, Inishowen and Derry, the tumultuous events of the early 1600s and the British Problems which have numerous ramifications for today's Ireland.

The Charles Macklin Autumn School
Culdaff . Inishowen . Co. Donegal . Ireland
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