Refereed Conference Presentations
Giacometti, Alejandro, Melissa Terras, Adam Gibson, and Simon Mahony. Multi-Spectral Image Processing Methods For Analysing Ancient Documents. Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton. May 28 — June 1, 2011.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Stan Ruecker, Carlos Fiorentino, and the INKE Research Group. Showcase Browsing with Texttiles 2.0 and BubbleLines. Paper presented at Research Foundations for Understanding Books and Reading in the Digital Age. Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands), The Hague. December 15, 2010.
Giacometti, Alejandro, John Simpson, Chris Lepine, Stan Ruecker. Small Groups Interacting Online. Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Carleton University, Ottawa. May 25 – 27, 2009.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Mariana Paredes, Stan Ruecker, Ruxandra Comanaru. Tell Me What Those Blogs Are About: Comparing Corpus-based Automatic Keyword Generation for Blog Posts and Folksonomy Tagging. Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) annual conference at the 2009 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. Carleton University, Ottawa. May 25 – 27, 2009.
Bouchard, Matt, Alejandro Giacometti. Managing Management: Interdisciplinary Project Management for Graduate Students. Paper presented at Beyond Analogue: Current Graduate Research in Humanities Computing. A Humanities Computing Graduate Conference at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, February 23, 2009.
McDonald, Andrew, Amit Kumar, Matt Bouchard, Alejandro Giacometti, Matt Patey, Milena Radzikowska, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, Stan Ruecker, Catherine Plaisant, and Stefan Sinclair. Dozens of Little Radio Stations: Getting Technologies Talking in the MONK Workbench. Paper presented at the third Digital Humanities and Computer Science (DHCS) Colloquium. Nov 1 – 3, 2008. Chicago: University of Chicago, 2008.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Stan Ruecker, Ian Craig, Gerry Derksen, and Milena Radzikowska. Introducing the Ripper Interface for Text Collections. Paper presented at the Canadian Symposium on Text Analysis (CaSTA) Conference: New Directions in Text Analysis. A Joint Humanities Computing, Computer Science Conference at University of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon, October 16 – 18, 2008.
Sinclair, Stéfan, Andrew Macdonald, Matthew Bouchard, Mike Plouffe, Alejandro Giacometti, Amit Kumar, Milena Radzikowska, Stan Ruecker, Piotr Michura, Carlos Fiorentino, Matthew Kirschenbaum, and Catherine Plaisant. Late Nights at the Scriptorium: Interim Results from the Interface Cell of the MONK Project. Paper presented at the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs annual conference at the 2008 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia. June 2 – 3, 2008.
Panels
Ruecker, Stan, Carlos Fiorentino, Alejandro Giacometti, Sarah Faisal, Ann Blandford, Claire Warwick, Stéfan Sinclair, and the INKE Research Group. Comparative Search Visualisation with Bubblelines. Panel at the Society for Digital Humanities / Société pour l’étude des médias interactifs (SDH/SEMI) annual conference at the 2011 Congress of the Social Sciences and Humanities. University of New Brunswick and St. Thomas University, Fredericton. May 28 — June 1, 2011.
Poster Presentations
Giacometti, Alejandro, Adam Gibson, Melissa Terras, and Simon Mahony Multi-spectral Image Processing Methods for Analysing Ancient Documents. Poster presented at the UCL Graduate School Research Poster Competition 2011. February 28, 2011. London: UCL, 2011.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Adam Gibson, and Melissa Terras Image Processing & Ancient Documents. Poster presented at the inauguration of the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities. May 20, 2010. London: UCL, 2010.
Giacometti, Alejandro Parallel Algorithms on CONNEX-Like Machines Poster presented at The Consortium for Computing Sciences in Colleges. Apr 21 – 22, 2006. Worcester: College of the Holy Cross, 2006.
Awards
Giacometti, Alejandro, Stan Ruecker, Ian Craig, and Gerry Derksen. TextTiles Browser. 2008 T-REX (TADA Research Evaluation eXchange). Hamilton: McMaster University, 2008.
Public Presentations
Giacometti, Alejandro, Adam Gibson, Melissa Terras, and Simon Mahony Image Processing of Ancient Documents. Presented to the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory at the UCL Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering. February 2, 2011. London: UCL, 2011.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Adam Gibson, and Melissa Terras Multi-spectral Image Processing Methods for Analysing Ancient Documents. Presented to the UCL Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering as a review of work accomplished on the 1st year of the PhD. October 23, 2010. London: UCL, 2010.
Giacometti, Alejandro, Adam Gibson, and Melissa Terras Image Processing & Ancient Documents. Presented to the Biomedical Optics Research Laboratory at the UCL Department of Medical Physics & Bioengineering. February 24, 2010. London: UCL, 2010.