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Jul 03, 1961 Dublin, Leinster, Ireland 63 years old
Irish scientist
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About Mark Keane
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- Keane (Irish: Marcus Ó Cathain, born 3 July 1961, Dublin, Ireland) is a cognitive scientist and author of several books on human cognition and artificial intelligence, including Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook (7 editions, with Michael Eysenck), Advances in the Psychology of Thinking (1992, with Ken Gilhooly), Novice Programming Environments (1992, with Marc Eisenstadt and Tim Rajan), Advances in Case-Based Reasoning (1995, with J-P Haton and Michel Manago). Keane has been Chair of Computer Science at University College Dublin since 1997.
- In 2006, he was seconded to the newly established Science Foundation Ireland as Director of ICT, responsible for oversight on a $700m research investment.
- He advised the Irish Government on its 3.7B euro Strategy for Science, Technology & Innovation (SSTI).
- From 2006-2007, he was Director General of Science Foundation Ireland before returning to University College Dublin where he was appointed VP of Innovation & Partnerships (2007-2009).
- Keane's research has been split between Cognitive Science and Computer Science.
- His Cognitive Science research has been in Analogy, Metaphor, Conceptual combination and Similarity (psychology).
- His Computer Science research has been in Natural Language Processing, Machine Learning, Case-based reasoning, text analytics and Explainable Artificial Intelligence.
- He has been a PI in the Science Foundation Ireland funded Insight Centre for Data Analytics working on Digital journalism and Digital Humanities.
- More recently, he has become the Deputy Director of the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre that is exploring precision agriculture in the dairy sector.
