Dr Phil Maguire

    Computer Science

    Lecturer

    Eolas Building
    1st
    108
    (01) 708 6082

    Biography

    Phil Maguire completed a BAI in Engineering in TCD, followed by an MSc and PhD in Cognitive Science in UCD. He has a DipPysch in Psychology from the OU and PGDHE from Maynooth. Phil joined the Computer Science department in Maynooth in 2006. He is director of the BSc in Computational Thinking.

    Research Interests

    Phil Maguire's main research interests are in the area of cognitive science and theoretical computer science. In particular he is interested in representation, uncertainty, standards of measurement and the foundations of mathematics, with applications to the fintech industry.

    Peer Reviewed Journal

    Year Publication
    2018 Hu Y.;Zhu L.;Zhou M.;Li J.;Maguire P.;Sun H.;Wang D. (2018) 'Exploring the influence of ethical leadership on voice behavior: How leader-member exchange, psychological safety and psychological empowerment influence employees' Willingness to Speak Out'. Frontiers in Psychology, 9 (SEP). [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2018 Maguire, P., Moser, P, Maguire R. & Keane, M.T. (2018) 'Why the Conjunction Effect Is Rarely a Fallacy: How Learning Influences Uncertainty and the Conjunction Rule'. Frontiers in Psychology, 9 :1011-1-1011-12. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2018 Maguire, P; Maguire, R; Kelly, R. (2018) 'Using automatic machine assessment to teach computer programming'. Computer Science Education, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2019 Maguire P;Moser P;Maguire R;Keane MT; (2019) 'Seeing Patterns in Randomness: A Computational Model of Surprise'. Topics in Cognitive Science, 11 (1):103-118. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2017 Hyland P.;Fox R.;Treacy G.;Maguire P.;Boduszek D.;Vallières F. (2017) 'Assessing the Factorial Validity of the Attitudes and Belief Scale 2-Abbreviated Version: A Call for the Development a Gold Standard Method of Measuring Rational and Irrational Beliefs'. Journal of Rational - Emotive and Cognitive - Behavior Therapy, 35 (2):111-124. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2017 Maguire, R;Egan, A;Hyland, P;Maguire, P (2017) 'Engaging students emotionally: the role of emotional intelligence in predicting cognitive and affective engagement in higher education'. Higher Education Research and Development, 36 :343-357. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Wang D.;Zhu L.;Maguire P.;Liu Y.;Pang K.;Li Z.;Hu Y. (2016) 'The influence of social comparison and peer group size on risky decision-making'. Frontiers in Psychology, 7 (AUG). [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Maguire P.;Moser P.;Maguire R. (2016) 'Understanding consciousness as data compression'. Cognitive Science, 17 (1):63-94. [Full-Text]
    2016 Maguire P.;Miller R.;Moser P.;Maguire R. (2016) 'A robust house price index using sparse and frugal data'. Journal of Property Research, 33 (4):293-308. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2016 Wang D.;Hao L.;Maguire P.;Hu Y. (2016) 'The effects of cognitive style and emotional trade-off difficulty on information processing in decision-making'. International Journal of Psychology, . [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2014 Maguire, P., Maguire, R., Hyland, P., Marshall, P. (2014) 'Enhancing Collaborative Learning Using Pair Programming: Who Benefits?'. ALL IRELAND JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 6 (2):1411-14125. [Full-Text]
    2013 Maguire, P. & Maguire, R. (2013) 'Can Clickers Enhance Team Based Learning? Findings From A Computer Science Module'. ALL IRELAND JOURNAL OF TEACHING AND LEARNING IN HIGHER EDUCATION, 4 (3):142 1-142 17. [Link] [Full-Text]
    2011 Maguire, R;Maguire, P;Keane, MT (2011) 'Making Sense of Surprise: An Investigation of the Factors Influencing Surprise Judgments'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 37 :176-186. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2010 Maguire, P;Maguire, R;Cater, AWS (2010) 'The Influence of Interactional Semantic Patterns on the Interpretation of Noun-Noun Compounds'. Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition, 36 :288-297. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2010 Maguire, P;Wisniewski, EJ;Storms, G (2010) 'A corpus study of semantic patterns in compounding'. Corpus Linguistics and Linguistic Theory, 6 :49-73. [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2006 Maguire, P., Cater, A. W., and Maguire, R. (2006) 'The role of experience in the interpretation of noun-noun compounds'. Artificial Intelligence Review, 25 :139-160. [Full-Text]

    Conference Publication

    Year Publication
    2016 Maguire P. and Miller R. and Moser P. and Maguire R. (2016) International Conference on Data Mining, New York A robust house price index using sparse and frugal data [Full-Text]
    2016 Maguire P. and Kelly S. and Miller R. and Moser P. and Maguire R. and Hyland P. (2016) International Conference on Data Mining, New York Exploiting the low-volatility anomaly by optimizing historical portfolio volatility
    2014 Maguire, P;Moser, P;Reilly, KO;McMenamin, C;Kelly, R;Maguire, R (2014) 2104 IEEE CONFERENCE ON COMPUTATIONAL INTELLIGENCE FOR FINANCIAL ENGINEERING & ECONOMICS (CIFER) Maximizing Positive Porfolio Diversification [Full-Text]
    2014 Fuller, S;Maguire, P;Moser, P (2014) LREC 2014 - NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON LANGUAGE RESOURCES AND EVALUATION A Deep Context Grammatical Model For Authorship Attribution [Full-Text]
    2014 Maguire P.;Moser P.;O'Reilly K.;McMenamin C.;Kelly R.;Maguire R. (2014) IEEE/IAFE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering, Proceedings (CIFEr) Maximizing positive porfolio diversification [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2013 Maguire P.;Moser P.;McDonnell J.;Kelly R.;Fuller S.;Maguire R. (2013) Proceedings of the 2013 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics, CIFEr 2013 - 2013 IEEE Symposium Series on Computational Intelligence, SSCI 2013 A probabilistic risk-to-reward measure for evaluating the performance of financial securities [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2012 Maguire P.;O'Sullivan D.;Moser P.;Dunne G. (2012) 2012 IEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence for Financial Engineering and Economics, CIFEr 2012 - Proceedings Risk-adjusted portfolio optimisation using a parallel multi-objective evolutionary algorithm [DOI] [Full-Text]
    2009 Maguire, P. & Maguire, R. (2009) Proceedings of the 30th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society Investigating the Difference between Surprise and Probability Judgments [Link] [Full-Text]
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