Mark T. Keane (Irish: Marcus Ó Cathain, born 3 July 1961, Dublin, Ireland) is a cognitive scientist and

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of several books on human cognition and artificial intelligence, including ''Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook'' (8 editions, with

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), ''Advances in the Psychology of Thinking'' (1992, with Ken Gilhooly), ''Novice Programming Environments'' (1992/2018, with Marc Eisenstadt and Tim Rajan), ''Advances in Case-Based Reasoning'' (1995, with J-P Haton and Michel Manago)., ''Case-Based Reasoning: Research & Development'' (2022, with N Wiratunga).Keane, M.T & Wiratunga, N. (Eds.). (2022). Case-Based Reasoning: Research & Development, ICCBR-22, Nancy, France, 12-15 September 2022. Springer. Keane has been Chair of Computer Science at

University College Dublin University College Dublin (commonly referred to as UCD) ( ga, Coláiste na hOllscoile, Baile Átha Cliath) is a public research university in Dublin, Ireland, and a member institution of the National University of Ireland. With 33,284 student ...

since 1997. In 2006, he was seconded to the newly established

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as Director of ICT, responsible for oversight on a $700m research investment. He advised the Irish Government on its 3.7B euro Strategy for Science, Technology & Innovation (SSTI). From 2006–2007, he was Director General of

before returning to

where he was appointed VP of Innovation & Partnerships (2007-2009). Keane's research has been split between cognitive science and

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. His cognitive science research has been in analogy,

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, conceptual combination and similarity. His computer science research has been in natural language processing,

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case-based reasoning In artificial intelligence and philosophy, case-based reasoning (CBR), broadly construed, is the process of solving new problems based on the solutions of similar past problems. In everyday life, an auto mechanic who fixes an engine by recallin ...

text analytics Text mining, also referred to as ''text data mining'', similar to text analytics, is the process of deriving high-quality information from text. It involves "the discovery by computer of new, previously unknown information, by automatically extra ...

and

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. He has been a PI in the

funded Insight Centre for Data Analytics working on

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and

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. More recently, he was Deputy Director of the VistaMilk SFI Research Centre that is exploring precision agriculture in the dairy sector.

References

External links

UCD Homepage

SiliconRepublic.com article "The Keane Edge"
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VistaMilk Keane PI

Eysenck & Keane (2020)

UCD Appoints Keane as VP
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