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MU’s Sustainability Committee is not just active on campus, its members engage in international partnerships in order to facilitate knowledge transfer and keep up-to-date on the latest ideas and developments in sustainability.

MU’s commitment to sustainability took another step forward last spring, becoming an official partner of klima:aktiv, Austria's initiative to spread ideas and methods for sustainability and corporate social responsibility.

The ACM Conference on Information and Knowledge Management is an internationally renowned conference to present the latest developments and innovations in information retrieval, knowledge management, and databases. Since its foundation 20 years ago, it has been a key annual meeting of the minds for leading scientists in this field.

KDIR is one of three conferences held simultaneously under the umbrella of the IC3K, located in Valencia, Spain. This joint conference strongly supports the communication of scientists of different research areas. The opening keynote was held by Rudi Studer, summarizing current approaches in the Semantic Web area.

The ECML PKDD is a technical conference on cutting-edge innovations in the areas of machine learning and knowledge discovery. It was held in Barcelona, Spain, at the Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona. The keynote by Prof. Hod Lipson offered insights on current trends in robotics and machine learning.

The European Conference on Artificial Intelligence (ECAI), one of the most influential conferences in the area of Artificial Intelligence, attracts researchers from many areas such as Robotics, Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning. The biannual conference is a forum for the discussion and presentation of a wide range of applications from ontology engineering to dancing robots and even work on the famous game "Go".

Hosted by the Austrian Center for Knowledge Management (www.know-center.at), the I-Know and I-Semantics 2009 conferences took place in Graz from September 2-4, providing a highly interactive setting for academics and industry experts alike. More than 450 participants attended the conference, with around 70 contributors of long and short papers, respectively.

Sentiment Detection is one of the research fields of the RAVEN project. It is a sub area of text mining and attempts to automatically extract the mood or sentiment expressed by an author of a written text. Armed with such means, it is easy for potential users - private enterprises, for example - to track the sentiment of the online community towards their brands and, if necessary, to adapt their marketing strategies.