We are please to welcome Dr Dell Zhang who joined the department on 1st September as a Lecturer.

A new book by Prof Mark Levene entitled "An Introduction to Search Engines and Web Navigation" has been published by Pearson Education. Full details.

Steve Maybank have been appointed a member of the Academic Committee of State Key Laboratory for Image Processing and Intelligent Control, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China, with effect form April 2005. A delegation from Huazhong University visited Birkbeck College on 3 May 2005 to present him with a certificate.

Ian Harrison is Birkbeck's representative on the eDIPED project which aims to provide a digital appraisal tool for the collection and presentation of portfolio evidence of European educators' competencies.

A new book by Prof Boris Mirkin entitled "Clustering for Data Mining - A Data Recovery Approach" has been published by Chapman & Hall. Full details are here.

George Magoulas, Alex Poulovassilis, Sara de Freitas and Ian Harrison have been awarded £132,000 from JISC for a project entitled: L4All: Lifelong learning in London for all as part of the Distributed e-Learning Programme.

Niki Trigoni has been awarded £207,830 from EPSRC for a project entitled: A Transport Information Monitoring Environment (TIME): Event Architecture and Context Management (TIME-EACM)

Niki has also been awarded £3,500 from the Nuffield Foundation for a project entitled: Fault-tolerant data management for sensor networks.

George Roussos has just been successful in being awarded a grant from the EU in collaboration with an number of European partners. The project is Association Studies assisted by Inference and Semantic Technologies. The Birkbeck part of the grant is about £113,500 and the project will run for two years from 1st January 2006. The project is currently recruiting two Research Assistants.