Memberships, Elected Positions
and Appointments: F. Murtagh
- Member, Royal Irish Academy.
- President-Elect (2006-2007, President 2008-2009), Classification
Society of North America.
- Fellow, British Computer Society (FBCS).
- Fellow, Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures
and Commerce (FRSA).
- Editor-in-Chief,
The Computer Journal
(Oxford University Press), 2000-2007.
- Member of Editorial Board,
p-Adic Numbers, Ultrametric Analysis, and
Applications (Pleiades Publishing, Russian Academy of Sciences, distributed
by Springer), 2008 to date.
- Member of Editorial Board,
International Journal of Software and
Informatics (Institute of Software, Chinese Academy of Sciences),
2008-
- Member of Editorial Board,
Neurocomputing (Elsevier), 1992-
- Member of Editorial Board,
Journal of Classification (Springer-Verlag), 1984-.
- Member of Editorial Board,
Information - Xinxi - Joho , International Journal in English,
Chinese and Japanese, Yamaguchi University, 1999-2004.
- Member of Editorial Board, Les Cahiers de l'Analyse des
Données (Dunod), 1981-1998.
- Member of Editorial Board,
Journal of Multivariate Analysis
(Academic), 1999-2003.
- Editor-in-Chief,
Classification Literature Automated
Search Service (annual bibliographic service, published on diskette
and on-line by
Classification Society of North America, CSNA)
- Member of Editorial Board,
Artificial
Intelligence Review (Kluwer) (1997-2000)
- Member of Technical Advisory Board,
New
Astronomy (Elsevier), 1996-
- Secretary of
Irish Pattern Recognition and Classification Society
(IPRCS), founded Jan. 1999. Section in Ireland of
IAPR, International
Association for Pattern Recognition.
- Fellow, Royal Statistical Society
- Member, British Computer Society Knowledge Services Board.
- Member, Board of Directors,
Classification Society of North America, 1990 to date.
- Member, Board of Directors,
International
Federation of Classification Societies, 1995-1998.
First Publication Officer and Newsletter Editor,
International Federation of Classification
Societies, 1990-1994.
- Member, Board of Directors,
European Regional Society, International Association for Statistical
Computing, 1992-1996.
- Member, Board of Directors,
International Association for Statistical Computing, 1995-1999.
Member, European Board of IASC, 2004-2008.
- Member, IAU (International Astronomical Union)
Commission 5 - Documentation
and Astronomical Data
- Former President,
Technical Committee 13 (Astronomy and Astrophysics),
International Association
for Pattern Recognition, 1990-1994. Secretary,
Technical Committee 13, 1995-1997. Since 1998: President, TC 13.
- Member,
Model-Based Clustering Working Group, Dept. of Statistics,
University of Washington.
- Member of:
Classification Society of North
America
British Computer Society
Société Francophone de Classification
Gesellschaft für
Klassifikation
Société Française d'Astronomie et
d'Astrophysique (SF2A)
International Astronomical Union
International Association for
Statistical Computing
Association for Computing Machinery
(ACM)
European Geophysical Society
(EGS)
Astronomical
Science Group of Ireland (ASGI)
Northern
Ireland Biomedical Engineering Society
SPIE - The International Society for
Optical Engineering
Applied Vision Association
The Society for Information Display
- Member of Board of Directors of
ERNACT, European Regions Network for the Application of Communications
Technology, 1997-1999.
- Other Boards of Directors: Multi Resolutions Ltd.
- Evaluator:
Fifth Framework - Medical Informatics (1999),
Fifth Framework High Level Conferences (2002).
Eurostat, Luxembourg, SUP-COM.
Enterprise Ireland -
Strategic Research Grant Scheme.
Enterprise Ireland -
Research Innovation Fund - Information Technology Panel.
Enterprise
Ireland - Advanced
Technologies Research Programme 2001, Photonics.
Enterprise Ireland: Advanced Technologies
Research Programme - Computer Science; Photonics, 2002.
Proposal evaluator for EPSRC, PPARC, NERC, ESRC.
ASI - Italian Space Agency, Scientific Programs
Unit - Technology Science Office.
- Member of many PhD thesis juries and panels in France, Ireland, UK,
Malaysia, the Netherlands.
President of PhD jury, Ecole Nationale
Supérieure des Arts et Industries de Strasbourg, November
2000.
- Member of interview
panels and boards of advisors
for academic appointments at all levels, from research assistant to
Professorial Chairs (includes Birkbeck College, NUI Maynooth,
Queen's University Belfast) in the UK and Ireland.
- Member of course and subject area reviews, departmental
reviews and evaluations, institute evaluations, in
- South Bank University, London
- Department of Computer Science,
National University of Ireland Maynooth.
- BEng in Digital Media Engineering, Electrical
Engineering, Dublin City University
- IRIT, Toulouse
- External examiner, BAI in Computer
Science, Trinity College Dublin, 2001-2003.
- Elected member, Committee on Science and Technology,
RDS - Royal Dublin
Society.
- Member, Committee for Astronomy and Space Research,
Royal Irish Academy, 2000-2003.
- External reviewer, "2000 Astrophysics Senior Review", NASA Goddard
Space Flight Center.
- Conference organisation, scientific organising committees, programme
committees, keynote talks, etc.: countless...