He has been responsible for the EU projects LinkedTV (www.linkedtv.eu) - as Scientific Coordinator - and MediaMixer (www.mediamixer.eu) - as Project Coordinator. He also teaches (Web Information Systems, E-Commerce, Project Management. Media Asset Management and Re-use) and works on acquiring new research projects. His research domain is semantic technology and multimedia, with a focus on automated media interlinking and the creation of interactive media experiences (hypermedia). Previous activities (biography)Dr. Lyndon J B Nixon received his Masters in Computer Science from Queens University Belfast in 1997. Following some years working in the Computing department, he received a PhD grant from the DAAD and studied at the Fraunhofer Institute FOKUS (2001-2003) and the Free University of Berlin (2004-2008). In the former he came into contact with interactive TV, based on DVB-MHP technology. At the latter he began to work in European research projects, becoming 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 from the Free University of Berlin with the topic 'Semantic Web enabled Multimedia Presentation system'. He joined STI International in Vienna as a postdoctoral researcher in November 2008, and from January 2012 to September 2013 he was Head of Research for the Research Unit of STI International (branded "STI Research"). He was responsible for the research activities, which besides student supervision and proposal writing, were the following projects in 2013:
Previously he worked as a workpackage leader in the European IP NoTube (semantic television) and Infrastructures project SEALS (benchmarking semantic tools), as well as the Future Internet Austria (platform for Future Internet activities in Austria). From June 2010 to May 2012, he was project coordinator for the Future Internet (Web of Services) support action SOFI. In this period he was also working in the European Network of Excellence PlanetData as well as the Austrian augmented reality project SmartReality. Earlier he had 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 covered Web technology deployment, use case management, technology roadmapping, dissemination and exploitation support and training. His research interests cover multimedia annotation and processing, augmentation of media with associated content and interactive interfaces to mobile and TV multimedia / hypermedia content. | RSS Feed |
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Talking at the Workshop on Analytics in Tourism Design at MODUL University Vienna
MODUL University hosts an exciting workshop this week on defining the future of tourism, no less. I am honoured to be giving a short presentation on Friday regarding how media ...
Posted Nov 6, 2017, 2:45 AM by Lyndon Nixon -
Presenting InVID Project News Video Collection At ACM Multimedia 2017
I will present our work on detecting news stories from Twitter streams and using those stories to collect automatically relevent video from social networks during this year's ACM Multimedia ...
Posted Sep 20, 2017, 5:50 AM by Lyndon Nixon -
Giving Industry talk at EMC Partner Bootcamp in Vienna
I will present the innovative Web intelligence and data visualisation platform of webLyzard on Wed 7 October at the EMC Partner Bootcamp. See the event agenda at http://austria.emc ...
Posted Oct 5, 2015, 2:19 AM by Lyndon Nixon -
See me at #tvx2014: workshop on TV user experience and industry talk on LinkedTV
I will participate in this years ACM TV Experiences (TVX) 2015 conference in Brussels from June 3 to 5.On Wednesday, in the workshop on People, Context, and Devices: Defining ...
Posted Apr 29, 2015, 3:55 AM by Lyndon Nixon -
Spoke at EuropeanaTech 2015 on LinkedCulture: linking cultural heritage in TV to art objects in Europeana
I recently spoke at the EuropeanaTech conference on the LinkedCulture demo, one of the scenarios of the LinkedTV project. See http://www.linkedtv.eu/uncategorized/eurtech15-europeanatech-talk-on-linking ...
Posted Feb 17, 2015, 6:32 AM by Lyndon Nixon