Kjetil Kjernsmo graduated

Posted on 2017-04-03 by Urszula Nowostawska

Kjetil Kjernsmo successfully completed his PhD trial lecture and thesis defense at the University of Oslo on Wednesday, the 14th of December 2016 and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy.

The title of his thesis was “SPARQL on the Open, Decentralised Web“.

This dissertation discusses a broad range of problems concerning the use of the SPARQL query language on the open, publicWeb. It is motivated from seeing decentralisation of data and infrastructure as an important social goal, and SPARQL as an enabling technology to solve problems using the Semantic Web. The dissertation makes contributions in hypermedia, where RDF is used to create a format that can tell humans and machines alike how to manipulate resources on the Web; philosophy of science, where important foundational problems around how to create valid knowledge and objectivity are discussed; statistical methods that better satisfies the requirements from philosophy of science than current practice; how to improve developer efficiency with novel programming paradigms; and finally how caching infrastructure in the Internet may be used to make query answering across the Web more robust.

The following committee has been appointed to evaluate his thesis, trial lecture and defense:

  • First external opponent: Research Associate Andreas Harth, AIFB, Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Germany.
  • Second external opponent: Associate Professor Katja Hose, Department Of Computer Science, Aalborg University, Denmark.
  • Internal opponent: Associate Professor Volker Stolz, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.
  • Administrator for the assessment committee: Associate Professor Ellen Munte-Kaas, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo.

Kjetil Kjernsmo carried out his PhD work at the Department of Informatics, Univerity of Oslo. His main supervisor was Professor Martin Giese, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo. His co-supervisor was Arild Waaler, Department of Informatics, University of Oslo

Congratulations!

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