Alan Smeaton

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Alan F. Smeaton MRIA[http://www.ria.ie/about/membership/admittance-day-2013.aspx President Welcomes New Members to the Academy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921211808/http://www.ria.ie/about/membership/admittance-day-2013.aspx |date=21 September 2013 }} - Royal Irish Academy, 31 May 2013 is a researcher and academic at Dublin City University.{{Cite web|url=https://www.computing.dcu.ie/~asmeaton/|title=Alan Smeaton's Home Pages|website=computing.dcu.ie|access-date=2019-11-03}} He was founder of TRECVid,{{Cite web |title=Prof. Alan Smeaton {{!}} The Insight Centre for Data Analytics |url=https://www.insight-centre.org/users/alan-smeaton |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191103104904/https://www.insight-centre.org/users/alan-smeaton |archive-date=2019-11-03 |access-date=2019-11-03 |website=www.insight-centre.org}} and the Centre for Digital Video Processing, and a winner of the University President's Research Award in Science and Engineering in 2002 and the DCU Educational Trust Leadership Award in 2009.{{citation needed|date=June 2020}} Smeaton is a founding director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics at Dublin City University (2013–2019).[http://www.insight-centre.org/content/funding-directors Insight] Prior to that he was a Principal Investigator and Deputy Director of CLARITY: Centre for Sensor Web Technologies (2008–2013).[http://www.clarity-centre.org/content/professor-alan-smeaton Professor Alan Smeaton] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110193508/http://www.clarity-centre.org/content/professor-alan-smeaton |date=10 November 2013 }} | Centre for Sensor Web Technologies As of 2013, Smeaton was serving on the editorial board of the ACM Journal on Computers and Cultural Heritage, Information Processing and Management.{{Cite web|url=https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=o7xnW2MAAAAJ&hl=en|title=Alan F. Smeaton MRIA FIEEE|publisher=Google Scholar|access-date=2019-11-03}} Smeaton was elected a Member of the Royal Irish Academy in May 2013, becoming DCU's 10th member.{{Cite news|url=https://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/the-professor-who-helps-people-find-things-1.2601990|title=The professor who helps people find things|last=Ahlstrom|first=Dick|newspaper=The Irish Times|language=en|access-date=2019-11-03}}[http://www.ria.ie/about/membership/admittance-day-2013.aspx President Welcomes New Members to the Academy] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130921211808/http://www.ria.ie/about/membership/admittance-day-2013.aspx |date=21 September 2013 }} - Royal Irish Academy, 31 May 2013 In 2012 Smeaton was appointed by Minister Sean Sherlock to the board of the Irish Research Council.[http://www.research.ie/aboutus/council-board-members] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131226035731/http://www.research.ie/aboutus/council-board-members|date=26 December 2013}} Irish Research Council.