Fionn Murtagh
BA, BAI, MSc, PhD, Habil.
Professor of Computer Science in the University of London
Director, Information, Communications and Emergent Technologies,
Science
Foundation Ireland
My Research Work In The News
- New!
JL Starck, F Murtagh and J Fadili,
Sparse Image and Signal Processing:
Wavelets, Curvelets, Morphological Diversity, Cambridge University
Press, 2010 (with accomponying code in Matlab and IDL).
- Affiliated with new
Center for Research in Entertainment and Learning (CREL),
hosted by UCSD Division of the California Institute for
Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
- Guest
on the Colin McEnroe Show on WNPR - Connecticut Public Radio,
20 January 2010.
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The secret of ratings success. Why are academics applying
algorithms to episodes of the TV drama CSI Las Vegas?, The Guardian,
1 December 2009.
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L'algoritmo del serial perfetto, C'è une formula matematica
alla base del successo di "Lost" e "Csi", La Stampa,
15 December 2009.
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La sceneggiaure perfetta, Corriere Della Sera, 1 December 2009.
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TV Listings 03/12/09, Academics probe TV ratings success, p. 6, Gulf Times,
Qatar, 3 December 2009.
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Such den Blockbuster, such!, Stern, 11 June 2008.
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Wie man Blockbuster vorhersagt.
Software soll erfolgreiche Filme anhand des Drehbuchs identifizieren, Bild
der Wissenschaft, 6 June 2008.
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Software dla scenarzystów, Focus.pl, 13 June 2008.
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Here's looking at you, kid. Software promises to identify blockbuster
scripts, Nature, vol. 453, p. 708, 4 June 2008.
Head of Department, 2005-2007
Member of the Royal Irish Academy
Fellow of the International Association for Pattern Recognition
Fellow of the British Computer Society
Chartered IT Professional, CITP
Editor-in-Chief of
The Computer Journal, 2000-2007
President, 2007 to date,
British
Classification Society
President 2008-2009, Classification
Society of North America
Appointed to Board of Directors of
Council for Frontiers of Knowledge, Kampala, Uganda.
h-index: 35 (details).
Erdős number: 2 (details).
Doctoral genealogy includes: Jean-Paul Benzéci, Henri Cartan,
Borel, Lebesgue, Poisson, Laplace, Lagrange,
Euler, the Bernoullis, Leibniz, Christiaan Huygens
(details).
Department of Computer Science
Royal Holloway, University of London
Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, England
fmurtagh at acm dot org
Research: Publications, Editorships, Projects
- Blog on themes that
include:
information economy, intellectual property, university/business interface.
- Recherche - grandes lignes:
- Data and information understanding and coding (particular focus:
clustering and unsupervised classification).
- Signal and image processing, modeling and visualization
(particular focus: multiresolution methods).
- Applications in astronomy, Earth observation, medicine, industrial
inspection, environmental science, finance, digital media and other fields.
- Publications:
Various Links
