Announcements
Congratulations to RPI Chaired Professor Deborah L McGuinness, Ph.D., on being named an International Association for Ontology and its Applications (IAOA) Fellow!
The IAOA Fellowship recognizes distinguished scholars whose work has advanced the field of applied ontology through research, education, community service, and practice.
WHAT: "A Comparison and Critical Reflection of Information Disorder Detection Techniques: Performing a Cross-Data and Cross-Model Evaluation"
WHO: Dr. Sabrina Kirrane, Associate Professor at the Vienna University of Economics and Business
WHEN: 15 Sep 2026
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/yQcbaspoGa4 NOTE: The audio is muted for ~1 min just after the recording starts
WHAT: TWed Talk: "Law as Code: From Legal Text to Machine Actionable Policies and Norms"
Congratulations to Tetherless World Chair of Computer, Web and Cognitive Sciences Jim Hendler on receiving a 2026 Knowledge Graph Lifetime Achievement Award!
WHAT: TWed Talk: "RDF 1.2 Status"
WHO: Ora Lassila
WHEN: 4:30p, Weds, 29 Apr 2026
WHERE: Winslow 1140
EVENT PAGE: https://bit.ly/4sRwcWA
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/EkdEMSv6cMk
WHAT: TWed Talk: "Discourse-Aware Scholarly Knowledge Graphs for the LLM Era"
WHO: Nipun D. Pathirage
WHEN: 4p, Weds, 18 Mar 2026
WHERE: Winslow 1140
EVENT PAGE: https://bit.ly/4bogBHx
SLIDES: https://bit.ly/4byTVo2
VIDEO: https://youtu.be/Le0FzmXOV-U
WHAT: TWed Talk: "TMS-KG: Wrapping Whyis in a task-specific API"
WHO: Danielle Villa and Gia Santos
WHEN: 4p, Weds, 25 Feb 2026
WHERE: Winslow 1140
WEBEX: https://rensselaer.webex.com/meet/erickj4
EVENT PAGE: https://bit.ly/3ML5qjI
