Harry Halpin

Current

• Research Postgraduate Student at University of Edinburgh
• GRDDL Working Group Chair at World Wide Web Consoritum Rep for Uni. of Edinburgh

Past

• Visiting Researcher at Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford
• Project Manager at Duke University

Education

• The University of Edinburgh
• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Recommended

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Connections

119 connections

Industry

Internet

Harry Halpin’s Summary

My professional goal is to get a job that pays me enough so that I don't starve to death and I can do what I love - which is tinker with the Web! And I don't just mean the online World Wide Web, but webs of all sorts.

Harry Halpin’s Specialties:

Web technologies, XML, RDF, Python programming, Perl programming, Squeak programming, Lisp programming, UNIX sysadmin, visualization, non-profit management

Harry Halpin’s Experience

• Research Postgraduate Student

  University of Edinburgh

  (Internet industry)

  Currently holds this position

• GRDDL Working Group Chair

  World Wide Web Consoritum Rep for Uni. of Edinburgh

  (Non-Profit; 201-500 employees; Computer Software industry)

  October 2006 — Present (3 years 2 months)

  Chair of a W3C (World Wide Web Consortium) Working Group, creating open and accessible Web standards.

• Visiting Researcher

  Oxford Internet Institute, University of Oxford

  (Internet industry)

  2008 — 2008 (less than a year)

• Project Manager

  Duke University

  (Educational Institution; 10,001 or more employees; Higher Education industry)

  2006 — October 2007 (1 year )

  I managed the HASTAC Project (Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory), where I was in the Literature Program and ISIS (Information Studies and Information Science). Overall, HASTAC was a success, garnering over a million dollars for digital research from the McArthur Foundation.

Harry Halpin’s Education

• The University of Edinburgh

  2003 — 2007

• University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

  BSc. , Computer Science and Cognitive Science , 1998 — 2001

  Activities and Societies:

  Honors, Phi Beta Kappa, various activist groups.

Additional Information

Harry Halpin’s Interests:

The Social Web, the Semantic Web, Analyzing Social Media (flickr, del.icio.us), Search Engines, and Analytic Philosophy of Language and Mind.

Harry Halpin’s Groups:

W3C, IEEE, ACM, ACL, AISB, microformats community.

•    New media group
•    Semantic Web
•    DAAD Alumni
•    Web Predictions
•    Semantic Marketing
•    Semantic Web Research
•    Artificial Intelligence Researchers, Faculty + Professionals
•    Web 3.0 Applications
•    Future Social Media
•    WWW2010 - Raleigh

Harry Halpin’s Honors:

DAAD (German Academic Exchange Program with Freie Universitat Berlin)
"Beyond Search" Award from Microsoft Research
Quickest W3C Recommendation (GRDDL)!
Duke Provost Common Fund Grant
ORS Scholarship
Friends of the American University of Edinburgh Grant
St. Andrew's Society Scholarship.

Harry Halpin’s Contact Settings

Interested In:

• consulting offers
• job inquiries