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| Aldo de Moor owner of Netherlands research company to lecture at UAH 
The UAHuntsville Distinguished Speaker Series continues this month with a presentation by Aldo de Moor, owner of CommunitySense, an informatics research consultant company based in the Netherlands. His company explores how people can collaborate better on the Internet.
de Moor's lecture, "From Inspiration to Activation: Making Online Collaborative Communities Work," will be presented a on Wednesday, Jan. 21 at 7:30 p.m., in room 107 of the Shelby Center. The UAHuntsville Office of the Provost and the Faculty Senate sponsors the 2008-2009 lecture series. de Moor's talk is also cosponsored by the UAH Computer Science Department. The lecture is free and open to the public.
CommunitySense is the research consultancy company owned and managed by Aldo de Moor. The firm's mission is to link academic researchers and practitioners in the rapidly advancing field of community networking, and to translate state-of-the-art insights into practical solutions for clients.
de Moor earned his doctorate in information management in 1999, from Tilburg University in the Netherlands.
For five years (1999-2004), he was assistant professor at Infolab, the Department of Information Systems and Management at Tilburg University. And, from 2005-2006, he was a senior researcher at the Semantics Technology and Applications Research Laboratory (STARLab) of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
de Moor's research interests include the evolution of virtual communities, communicative workflow modeling, argumentation support technologies, language/action theory, conceptual graph theory, and socio-technical systems design. He has served as visiting researcher at the University of Guelph (Canada) and at the University of Technology in Sydney, Australia.
Additionally, he has been program co-chair of the International Conference on Conceptual Structures, the Language/Action Perspective Working Conference on Communication Modeling, and the Pragmatic Web Conference. Some of de Moor's key publications have appeared in numerous journals such as Communications of the ACM, Data and Knowledge Engineering, Group Decision and Negotiation Information Systems, Information Systems Frontiers and Information Systems Journal.
For more information on de Moor's visit to UAHuntsville, please contact Dr. Harry S. Delugach at delugach@cs.uah.edu.
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