Apr
22
2009
The Enterprise Ireland Silicon Valley blog has a post on why Ireland rocks for telecoms innovation. Number 5 is:
Irish universities are active in telecoms research. A number have linked with industry to develop novel products. For example, UCC are working on encryption techniques; Maynooth are working on wireless Antenna control.
There are a bunch of world class research centres in Ireland investigating different aspects of networks and telecommunictaions, including:
Another reason I would add to the list is ComReg, the Commission for Communications Regulation. While ComReg regularly comes in for criticism from the Irish blogging community for not pushing hard enough to get broadband rollout, it does deserve credit for its enlightened view over allocation of spectrum for telecoms research. Because we’re an island, Ireland is an ideal test-bed for research and development of wireless technologies which can be tested and developed without polluting the spectrum of our neighbours.
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Apr
15
2009
Recently, I was looking through the list of Turing Award winners on Wikipedia. I knocked up a quick mindmap of the winners, categorising them by sub-discipline. To paraphrase George Box, all categorisations are wrong, but some are useful.
What stands out for me in this map is the preponderance of award winners from the areas of programming languages and theoretical computer science. This is understandable in the context of laying the foundations for computing and computer science.
There are very few, however, that could be called application areas. For example, one in graphics for Sutherland, and one in networking for Cerf & Kahn.
There are no awards (yet) in hugely interesting and important areas of computing, such as social networking/web (Tim Berners-Lee a prime candidate, perhaps?), mobile, data-mining, geo-technologies, machine vision, machine translation, massively parallel computing, sensors…….
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Apr
15
2009
Minister Jimmy Devins recently issued a statement detailing the implication that the recent budget will have on the science & technology research sectors funded by the Government.
A quote as it pertains to SFI:
The Science Foundation Ireland funding will be €170.5 million. In addition a sum of €5.5 million in capital carry over will be available, giving a total budget of €176 millions which is a 3.2% increase over last year’s spend year. The allocation of €176m will enable SFI to continue to build a critical mass of internationally competitive research teams in the sciences and engineering underpinning Biotechnology, Information and Communication Technologies, and Sustainable Energy and Energy Efficient Technologies.
Read the full statement for details.
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Apr
8
2009
Check out what the inimitable Guy Kawasaki has to say about The Art of Commercialisation – one of the things that we at SFI continually grapple with…
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Apr
1
2009
On the Guardian website: Twitter switch for Guardian, after 188 years of ink.
A mammoth project is also under way to rewrite the whole of the newspaper’s archive, stretching back to 1821, in the form of tweets. Major stories already completed include “1832 Reform Act gives voting rights to one in five adult males yay!!!”; “OMG Hitler invades Poland, allies declare war see tinyurl.com/b5×6e for more”; and “JFK assassin8d @ Dallas, def. heard second gunshot from grassy knoll WTF?”
Classic. Hat tip to Brien for the pointer.
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