Mar
8
2011
HeyStaks is a startup originating from the SFI-funded CLARITY Centre for Science Engineering and Technology. It’s based on the idea of ‘social search‘ – that is, that they searches that you do on any of the major search engines will likely be of interest to those in your social graph, in much the same way that sharing your photos is of interest to (some of) them.
HeyStaks got a very nice write up on the widely read TechCrunch blog, coming from their DEMO conference:
HeyStaks uses a comprehensive back-end social search algorithm to drive highly relevant community filtered recommendations. The idea was developed over a number of years by group of scientists in Ireland and is now teamed up with Jonathan Dillon, former VP of M&A/Integration at Yahoo!. Dillon was part of the team that acquired Delicious, which offered a scaled-down (and relatively unsuccessful) version of Heystaks beginning in 2005. Part of the reason it didn’t take off, according to Dillon, was that social graphs and networks were not yet as pervasive as they are today.
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Mar
16
2010
Recently, Enterprise Ireland sponsored a Commercial Development Manager position at a number of the SFI-funded Centres. CLARITY, one of the centres in my portfolio, has just advertised for their CDM.
To quote the job listing:
CLARITY: The CLARITY CSET is a partnership between University College Dublin, Dublin City University and Tyndall National Institute. The centre brings together a range of leading Principle Investigators (PI) across a diverse range of disciplines including, computer science and engineering, materials science, as well as sports and performance science. The centre is focused on creating the technologies and applications that will create the new world of the sensor web. This world will harness the power of abundant, reliable, and cheap sensor networks in order to bridge the physical-digital divide and in so doing will focus on a wide range of applications in areas such as environmental monitoring, personal health, and social media.
The remit of the Commercial Developmental Manager will be to define and market the portfolio of CLARITY, guiding late stage commercial projects to maturity and identify early stage projects that have commercial viability as well developing and building partnerships with industrial partners. The CDM will be expected to spend their time working with researchers across all CLARITY sites and therefore the position will involve travel between the three sites.
CLARITY have a huge range of activity in their centre, from materials science, through micro-electronics and sensor networks onto software and web systems. If that sounds interesting to you, check it out.
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Oct
14
2009
Fergus Burns reports that IBM have announced the final 5 shortlisted companies for the IBM SmartCamp.
Of the five companies listed, one (HeyStacks) is a spin-out from the SFI-funded CSET CLARITY, founded by Prof. Barry Smyth, and another (TreeMetrics) is a Cork-based SME that is working in collaboration with the SFI-funded Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C) based in UCC.
Good luck to both HeyStacks and TreeMetrics.
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Sep
10
2009
There’s a nice article in today’s Irish Times website on the SFI-funded CLARITY CSET.
Researchers in DCU have developed a robot fish called WANDA – hard to resist a corny movie reference, I guess. WANDA stands for "Wireless Aquatic Navigator for Detection and Analysis".
Check out the article on the IT website.
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