Nigel Shadbolt

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CPsychol
Shadbolt in June 2013
Born
Nigel Richard Shadbolt

(1956-04-09) 9 April 1956 (age 68)[7]
London, England
Alma mater
Known for
Spouse(s)
Beverly Saunders
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(m. 1992)​
[7]
AwardsKnight Bachelor (2013)
Scientific career
Fields
Institutions
ThesisConstituting Reference in Natural Language: The Problem of Referential Opacity (1986)
Doctoral advisor
  • Barry Richards[4]
  • Henry S. Thompson[4]
Doctoral students
Websitewww.cs.ox.ac.uk/people/nigel.shadbolt Edit this at Wikidata

Sir Nigel Richard Shadbolt

School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton. Shadbolt is an interdisciplinary researcher, policy expert and commentator. His research focuses on understanding how intelligent behaviour is embodied and emerges in humans, machines and, most recently, on the Web, and has made contributions to the fields of Psychology, Cognitive science, Computational neuroscience, Artificial Intelligence (AI), Computer science and the emerging field of Web science.[8][11][1][12][13][14]

Education

Shadbolt was born in London but adopted and raised in the Derbyshire village of Ashford-in-the-Water, living a "bucolic existence" until he went to university.[15] He went to Lady Manners School, then a grammar school. He obtained an undergraduate degree in philosophy and psychology at Newcastle University. His PhD degree was received from the Department of Artificial Intelligence at the University of Edinburgh.[4] His thesis resulted in a framework for understanding how human dialogue is organised and was supervised by Barry Richards[4] and Henry S. Thompson.[4]

Research and career

Shadbolt's research has been in

social machines is funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC).[24]

Wikimania 2014

In 1983, Shadbolt moved to the

School of Electronics and Computer Science at the University of Southampton
.

From 2000 to 2007, he led and directed the Advanced Knowledge Technologies (AKT) Interdisciplinary Research Collaboration (IRC).[25] It produced a broad range of Semantic Web research, including how diverse information could be harvested and integrated[26] and how semantics could help computers systems recommend content.

In 2006 Shadbolt was elected a

Web Science[28] and foster research collaboration between the University of Southampton and Massachusetts Institute of Technology
.

From 2007 to 2011 Shadbolt was deputy head of the

School of Electronics and Computer Science (ECS) at the University of Southampton, from 2011 to 2014 he was head of the Web and Internet Science Group, the first research group dedicated to the study of Web science and Internet science
, within ECS, comprising 140 staff, researchers and PhD students.

His Semantic Web research led to the formation of Garlik,

Davos World Economic Forum and won the UK BT Flagship IT Award. Experian acquired Garlik in November 2011.[30]

In June 2009 he was appointed together with Tim Berners-Lee as Information Advisor to the UK Government. The two led a team to develop data.gov.uk, a single point of access for UK non-personal Governmental public data.[31][32] In May 2010 he was appointed by the UK Coalition Government to the Public Sector Transparency Board responsible for setting open data standards across the public sector and developing the legal Right to Data.

In December 2012, Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee formally launched the Open Data Institute. The ODI focuses on incubating and nurturing new businesses wanting to harness open data, training and promoting standards. In 2013, Shadbolt and Tim Berners-Lee joined the board of advisors of tech startup State.com, creating a network of structured opinions on the semantic web.[33] On 1 August 2015 he was appointed principal of Jesus College, Oxford and a professorial research fellow in the Department of Computer Science, University of Oxford.

Appointments

Nigel Shadbolt at the Royal Society admissions day in London, July 2017
  • 2008–present: Director, Web Science Trust[34]
  • 2010–2015: Chair of Local Public Data Panel, Deptartment of Communities and Local Government.
  • 2011–2014: Chair of UK Midata programme,
    coalition government.[37]
  • 2012–2016: UK Health Sector Transparency Board, DHS.[38]
  • 2013–2015: UK Research Sector Transparency Board,[39] appointed by Minister of State
  • 2013–2015: UK Information Economy Council, BIS, appointed by Minister of State[40]
  • 2015–2016: Chair, Shadbolt Review of Computer Science Employability[41]
  • 2015–2016: UK French Data Task Force, appointed by Chancellor of Exchequer[42]
  • 2015–present: Member, HMG Digital Advisory Board. Appointed by Minister of State[43]

Awards and honours

  • 2003 (2003): Won the 2003 International Semantic Web Challenge[44]
  • 2004 (2004): IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Award[45]
  • 2004 (2004): IEEE Computer Society Golden Core Award[46]
  • 2009 (2009): Robert Fulton SEIKM Best Paper Award[47]
  • 2010 (2010): Demographics User Group Award with Tim Berners-Lee[48]
  • 2011 (2011): Oxford Internet Institute OII Internet and Society Award
  • 2011 (2011): DSc Honoris Causi, University of Nottingham[49]
  • 2013 (2013): Knighted in the 2013 Birthday Honours for services to science and engineering[50][51]
  • 2014: Appointed EPSRC RISE (Recognising Inspirational Scientists and Engineers) Fellow[52]
  • 2016: Elected first Jisc Fellow[citation needed]
  • 2017: Elected Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)[7]

Shadbolt was interviewed by Jim Al-Khalili on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4 in April 2015.[53] In 2016, he delivered the Hinton Lecture of the Royal Academy of Engineering, entitled "Engineering the Future of Data".[54][7]

Personal life

Shadbolt is married to Bev Saunders, a designer, and has two children. [7]


References

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    EThOS uk.bl.ethos.370212. Open access icon
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    doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.U245873. (Subscription or UK public library membership
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  8. ^ a b c Nigel Shadbolt at DBLP Bibliography Server Edit this at Wikidata
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  10. ^ Jesus College, Oxford. Election of Next Principal. 15 July 2014
  11. S2CID 17732407
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  12. ^ a b Nigel Shadbolt publications indexed by the Scopus bibliographic database. (subscription required)
  13. ^ "Publications | Nigel Shadbolt". University of Southampton. 12 March 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  14. ISBN 978-1911344629
  15. ^ Data guardian Sir Nigel Shadbolt on privacy versus freedom, Financial Times, 6 December 2013, John Sunyer.
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  17. doi:10.1109/MIS.2003.1179189
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  23. ^ "sociam.org". sociam.org. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  24. ^ UK Government grants awarded to Nigel Shadbolt, via Research Councils UK
  25. ^ "AKT". Aktors.org. Archived from the original on 20 February 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  26. ^ "CS AKTive Space: Representing Computer Science in the Semantic Web". ePrints Soton. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
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  29. ^ "Garlik: A part of Experian". garlik.com. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 19 March 2014.
  30. ^ "23-12-2011". Experian plc. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  31. ^ Arthur, Charles (21 January 2010). "The Guardian 21stJan 2010". London. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  32. ^ Berners-Lee, Tim; Shadbolt, Nigel (21 January 2010). "Guardian Data Blog 21st Jan 2010". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 20 May 2010.
  33. ^ "State.com/about". Archived from the original on 3 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2013.
  34. ^ "Welcome to the Web Science Trust – The Web Science Trust". The Web Science Trust. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  35. ^ "The midata vision of consumer empowerment – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  36. ^ "Department for Business, Innovation & Skills – GOV.UK". gov.uk. 12 September 2012. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  37. ^ "Next steps making midata a reality – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  38. ^ "Health And Social Care Transparency Panel - GOV.UK".
  39. ^ "Research Sector Transparency Board – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  40. ^ "Note of 1st meeting of the Information Economy Council" (PDF). 27 March 2013. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  41. ^ "Shadbolt Review of Computer Sciences Degree Accreditation and Graduate Employability" (PDF).
  42. ^ "Data driven growth: report of the UK-France Data Taskforce | Modernisation". www.modernisation.gouv.fr (in French). Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  43. ^ "Digital heavyweights to advise government – GOV.UK". gov.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
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  45. ^ "IEEE Computer Society Meritorious Service Certificate". Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  46. ^ "Golden Core • IEEE Computer Society". computer.org. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  47. ^ "New approach to industrial web applications wins award". 11 September 2009. Retrieved 11 January 2018.
  48. ^ "DUG Awards". Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  49. ^ "Summer Graduation 2011 at The University of Nottingham". 1 July 2011. Retrieved 17 January 2018.
  50. ^ "No. 60534". The London Gazette (Supplement). 15 June 2013. p. 2.
  51. ^ "Birthday Honours List 2013" (PDF). HM Government. 14 June 2013. Retrieved 14 June 2013.
  52. ^ "RISE Awards Announced – EPSRC website". epsrc.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2017.
  53. ^ "Nigel Shadbolt on the worldwide web, The Life Scientific – BBC Radio 4". BBC. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
  54. ^ "Engineering the Future of Data". Royal Academy of Engineering. 24 November 2016. Retrieved 28 April 2017.
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