Meeting and discussing with interesting people is more exciting than bungee jumping or going to a Rolling Stones concert. That’s why we love participating in conferences, barcamps and similar events.

2011

• Forban a simple link-local opportunistic p2p free softwareTalk at FOSDEM 2011, Bruxelles, Belgium, February 2011

2010

• Understanding and Leveraging the Social Web for Information Retrieval
  Bi-national Ph.D. Defense of M. G. Noll at Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, July 2010
• Capturing Implicit Influence in Online Social Sharing
  Talk at ACM Hypertext 2010, Toronto, Canada, June, 2010
• Forban: a simple link-local opportunistic p2p free software
  Talk at Breizh Entropy Conference, Rennes, France, April 2010
• Analysis of Strategies for Item Discovery in Social Sharing on the Web
  Talk at WebSci’10, Raleigh, NC, USA, April, 2010

2009

• Identifying Experts and Fighting Spams on the Social Web
  Talk at Tanaka Laboratory, Department of Social Informatics, Kyoto University, Japan, November 2009
• Ranking Users in a Social Space: A Case Study of Collective Semantics
  Talk at Department of Computer Science and Engineering, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 2009
• GooDiff or how free software could help us from the legal gray goo…
  Talk at VJ 12, Brussels, Belgium, November 2009
• User-induced Links in Collaborative Tagging Systems
  Talk at ACM CIKM 2009, Hong Kong, China, November 2009
• User Behaviours and Collective Semantics
  Talk at NTT Communication Science Laboratories, Kyoto, Japan, August 2009
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
  Talk at Decentralized Information Group, CSAIL, MIT, Boston, USA, July 2009
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
  Talk at Workshop on Search in Social Media, SIGIR 2009, July 2009
• Telling Experts from Spammers: Expertise Ranking in Folksonomies
  Presentation at the 32nd Annual ACM SIGIR Conference, Boston, USA, July 2009
• Contextualising Tags in Collaborative Tagging Systems
  Talk at ACM Hypertext 2009, Torino, Italy, June 2009
• Spamming-resistant Expertise Analysis and Ranking in the Social Web
  Research seminar, Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, Luxembourg, May 2009
• Teaching Programming with Python
  Invited talk, Lycée Technique des Arts et Métiers, Luxembourg, April 2009
• On Measuring Expertise in Collaborative Tagging Systems
  Talk at the 1st Web Science Conference ’09 (WebSci), Athens, Greece, March 2009
• Providing Access Controls to Online Photo Albums Based on Tags and Linked Data
  Talk at AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford, USA, March 2009

2008

• The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries
  Talk at the 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Sydney, Australia, December 2008
• A k-Nearest-Neighbour Method for Classifying Web Search Results with Data in Folksonomies
  Talk at the 7th IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conference on Web Intelligence (WI), Sydney, Australia, December 2008
• Building a Scalable Collaborative Web Filter with Free and Open Source Software
  Talk at the 4th IEEE International Conference Signal-Image Technology & Internet-based Systems (SITIS), Bali, Indonesia, November 2008
• The Metadata Triumvirate: Social Annotations, Anchor Texts and Search Queries
  Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, November 2008
• The Safer Internet Project
  Research seminar, University of Luxembourg/LIASIT, Luxembourg, May 2008

2007

• Personalization 2.0: Web Search Personlization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging
  Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, November 2007
• Web Search Personalization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging
  Talk at the 6th International Semantic Web Conference (ISWC) & 2nd Asian Semantic Web Conference (ASWC), Busan, South Korea, November 2007
• GooDiff: An Online Consumer Service for Monitoring Changes in Legal Documents
  BarCamp talk, HACK conference, Luxembourg, October 2007
• Web Search Personlization via Social Bookmarking and Tagging
  Research seminar, University of Luxembourg/LIASIT, Luxembourg, October 2007
• Authors vs. Readers: A Comparative Study of Document Metadata and Content in the WWW
  Talk at the 7th International ACM Symposium on Document Engineering (DocEng), Winnipeg, Canada, August 2007
• Safer Internet: Web (Filtering) 2.0
  Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, February 2007

2006

• Design and Anatomy of a Social Web Filtering Service
  Talk at the 4th International Conference on Cooperative Internet Computing (CIC), Hong Kong, October 2006
• Security and Free Software : Friends ? hack.lu 2006 – a perspective about free software and security
  Feedback talk for hack.lu 2006, public research center (CRP), Luxembourg, October 2006.

2005

• An Exploratory Study of Internet Content Rating Systems
  Talk at the 1st HACK conference, Luxembourg, October 2005
• Safer Internet: Content Filtering for the WWW
  Research seminar, Hasso Plattner Institute, Potsdam, Germany, March 2005