Oxford University Computing Laboratory	Lecturer
Oxford, United Kingdom	October 2010 - Present

• Lecture Information Retrieval MSc. level course
• Conduct classes and practical programming sessions for undergraduate and MSc. level courses.
• Grade and review homework assignments in preparation for examinations.

Keble College, Oxford	Research Fellow and Tutor
Oxford, United Kingdom	October 2008 - Present

• Currently conducting research into large scale knowledge extraction and integration.
• Responsible for the tuition of undergraduate students. Including tutoring and exam preparation.
• Hold tutorials in a variety of undergraduate classes including: Logic & Proof, Imperative Programming, Object Oriented Programming Networks and Operating Systems and Discrete Mathematics
• Organise seminar series for undergraduate mathematical, physical and life science students.

Oxford University	D.Phil in Computer Science
Oxford, United Kingdom	May 2009

• Doctoral Thesis: ASKNet: Automatically Creating Semantic Knowledge Networks from Natural Language Text
• Developed ASKNet software for automatically extracting knowledge from natural language text and representing that knowledge in a semantic network using artificial intelligence techniques.

Oxford University	MSc. in Computer Science
Oxford, United Kingdom	September 2005

• Masters Dissertation: Information Extraction in the Biological Domain.
• Completed courses in Information Retrieval, Computational Linguistics and Intelligent Systems.

University of Toronto	Honours BSc. in Computer Science
Toronto, Canada	May 2004

• Graduated with high distinction (GPA of 3.86/4) from Software Engineering specialist program.
• Received Minor Degree in Psychology.

• Harrington B. & Clark S. ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks. International Journal of Semantic Computing. Volume 2, Issue 3. February 2009.

Conference Papers

• Brian Harrington. A Semantic Network Approach to Measuring Relatedness. Proceedings of the 23rd International Conference on Computational Linguistics (COLING 2010), Beijing China, 2010.
• Brian Harrington. Managing Uncertainty, Importance and Differing World-Views in ASKNet Semantic Networks. Proceedings of the fourth IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing, Pittsburgh USA, 2010.
• Pia-Ramona Wojtinnek, Brian Harrington, Sebastian Rudolph & Stephen Pulman. Conceptual Knowledge Acquisition Using Automatically Generated Large-Scale Semantic Networks. Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Conceptual Structures, Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia, 2010
• Harrington B. & Clark S. ASKNet: Creating and Evaluating Large Scale Integrated Semantic Networks. Proceedings of the Second IEEE International Conference on Semantic Computing (IEEE-ICSC2008), Santa Clara, USA, 2008.
• Harrington B. & Clark S. ASKNet: Automated Semantic Knowledge Network. Proceedings of the Twenty-Second Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-07), Vancouver, Canada, 2007.

Dissertations/Theses

• D.Phil Thesis: ASKNet: Automatically Creating Semantic Knowledge Networks from Natural Language Text. University of Oxford, 2009.
• MSc. Thesis: Information Extraction in the Biological Domain. University of Oxford, 2005.

Academic Activities

• International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2010) Programme committee member.
• International Conference on Semantic Computing (ICSC 2009) Publicity co-chair.
• Computational Linguistics UK & Ireland (CLUKI 2009) Programme committee member.
• Computational Linguistics UK (CLUK 2008) Conference organiser.
• AAAI/SIGART Doctoral Consortium. (AAAI 2007) Consortium member.

Academic Awards

• Canadian Centennial Scholarship (Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund, September 2007)
• Doctoral Consortium Scholarship (Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence & Association for Computing Machinery, March 2007)
• Clarendon Scholarship (Oxford University Press, September 2005)
• Gordon Cressy Student Leadership Award (University of Toronto, April 2004)
• Honours List (University of Toronto, 2001 - 2004)
• Gilchrist Prize in Science (University of Toronto, April 2003)

US Army - Space & Missile Defence Command/ISIS Innovations	Consultant
Oxford, United Kingdom	November 2008 - Present

• Developing demonstration software for very large scale information and data management.
• Assessing and analysing software for natural language processing and question answering.

IBM	Software Developer (Co-op)
Markham, Canada	September 2003 - January 2004

• Developed Code using IBMs Websphere Studio Application Developer for use on IBMs public internet site.
• Designed and Implemented user guide for content management tools for ibm.com.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	Systems Developer (Co-op)
Toronto, Canada	September 2002 - January 2003

• Created software for maintenance of Tandem online transaction processing system.
• Developed software packages through rigourous design, testing and implementation life-cycle constraints.
• Wrote scripting programs to automate daily operations in order to increase productivity.

Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce	System Test Analyst
Toronto, Canada	May 2001 - September 2001

• Designed and implemented regression testing strategy to verify accuracy of financial transaction tools.
• Tested and verified several applications, including financial database systems, customer service software, and financial transaction software.