2012年5月21号，爱尔兰都柏林城市大学博士Cathal Gurrin先生来我院进行了访问交流。

       Cathal Gurrin博士首先与我院领导进行了会谈。双方互相介绍了学校及学院的情况，就接下来两院在教学科研各方面的交流合作进行了初步交流讨论，并约定了下次进行进一步实质性探讨。我院廖明宏院长，曾文华副院长，姚俊峰教授，张仲楠老师参加了会谈。

       会后，Cathal Gurrin博士就他的研究领域为我院师生作了有趣生动的讲座。Cathal Gurrin博士讲座主要关于应用移动设备实时跟踪存贮个人信息及机器人记忆等实用研究领域内容。讲座互动良好，气氛热烈，与会师生表示收获良多。

       爱尔兰都柏林城市大学一所国内、国际著名的大学，学校以始终瞄准社会及工商企业各界需求的教学模式著名。Cathal Gurrin博士为该校计算机学院教师，同时在各种研究，实用科技领域身兼多职，研究成果广泛。

Cathal Gurrin博士简介
Cathal Gurrin is the SFI Stokes lecturer at the School of Computing at Dublin City University, Ireland and a visiting researcher at the University of Tromso, Norway. Cathal is the director of the Human Media Archives research group at Dublin City University as well as being a collaborating investigator in the CLARITY Centre for Sensor Web Technologies. His research interests are centered on Information Access to Personal Life Archives, Multimodal HCIR and Information Retrieval in general. He has been an active lifelogger since mid-2006 and has amassed a large archive of almost ten million sensecam images and is actively developing search and organization technologies for Personal Life Archives.  He is the author of more than 75 academic publications and has recently hosted the 33rd European Conference on Information Retrieval in Dublin, Ireland.

Cathal Gurrin博士讲座纲要
 In this talk he will introduce and motivate the concept of maintaining personal life archives, which are set to revolutionize our personal lives, healthcare, learning and productivity in the coming years. Since the seminal paper 'As We May Think' by Vannevar Bush in the 1940s, the concept of a personal life archive (the memex) has been spoken about. Yet only now, with the convergence of technical progress in three fields; data sensing, data storage and information retrieval/data mining, care we in a position to finally realize the Bush's vision of the memex.
  He will discuss his own motivation for gathering a Personal Life Archive as well as what he has learned from this process. He will motivate and describe the technical challenges to be addressed and introduce the research to address these challenges, research that points to the potential advances when cognitive science meets computer science. Finally, he will introduce the Senseseer platform, in development within DCU, which aims to efficiently gather a flexible and extensible Personal Life Archive. His experiences motivate this talk, as well as a passion for researching the technical challenges of Personal Life Archives.