Sean Bechhofer

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I'm a Lecturer in the Information Management Group within the University of Manchester School of Computer Science.

My research interests are centered around the technologies required to implement and deliver the Semantic Web.

I teach on a variety of subjects including Java programming and Knowledge Representation.

Up to 2004 I worked as a Research Fellow within the department. In the recent past I was working on WonderWeb, a European project developing ontology infrastructure for the Web. I was also involved with OntoWeb, a European thematic network concerned with Ontologies, and played a passing role in myGrid, an eScience and Grid demonstrator project.

Before that I was in a project known as COHSE, funded by the EPSRC under the DIM initiative. This was a joint project with the University of Southampton's Intelligence, Agents, Multimedia group, and was about using ontological services to enhance an open hypermedia system. We are continuing to develop and use the COHSE system.

If you want a better idea of what I look like or want to know what I get up to when I'm not at work, check the gallery.

Background

Originally hailing from Edinburgh, I graduated in 1988 with a Mathematics degree from the University of Bristol, and came to Manchester to do post-graduate work on various topics including Category Theory, Type Theory and Logic. In 1992 I went to work at ICL West Gorton on a Teaching Company Scheme. The project was concerned with developing an object-oriented front end to a network database-based software development environment, and made strong use of the O-O language Eiffel. In November 1993 I joined the Medical Informatics Group (MIG), and became part of the IMG in 1997.

Last modified: Wed Mar 20 14:37:55 GMT Standard Time 2002