Steve Flinter’s blog

I will be in DCU on Wednesday April 5th. As part of my visit to DCU, I will be giving a talk on SFI, and how to apply for SFI funding. As with my previous visit to UCD earlier this month, my talk is aimed primarily at non-funded researchers, be they post-grads/post-docs, research [...]

It has been a well known fact in the academic community within Ireland that Dr. Bill Harris, our Director General, is retiring from SFI this summer, after almost five years service. Bill’s new post as the President/CEO of Science Foundation Arizona has just been announced on our website.
The announcement has also been covered by [...]

A debate is starting in Ireland on the salary scales of senior professors within Irish Universities.
eircom.net is carrying an article from the Irish Times stating that the Government is investigating the possibility of performance-related pay (PRP).

It is understood that universities back PRP for senior college figures including presidents, registrars and secretaries. The introduction of PRP [...]

It appears that everything is now OK with the RSS feed. The problem was caused by moving between test and production databases. It appeared that the RSS cache was not properly flushed. I’m still not 100% sure what was going on, but at least it’s working OK again.

For those of you reading this blog through a feedreader, there appears to be a problem with the RSS feed. I’m looking into this, and will report as soon as it’s fixed.

There seems to be a lack of knowledge in the academic community of the process that SFI follows in processing a proposal we receive. In this post, I want to try to clarify the process as much as possible, and hopefully by so doing, give people an insight that might help them in writing [...]

Professor Marc Eisenstadt of the Open University has posted a nice entry on his blog about his recent visit to Dublin, as an advisor to SFI.
Marc very kindly waxes lyrically about the use of IT in transportation in Dublin. Unfortunately, when you’re stuck in Dublin traffic on a daily basis, it’s never quite as [...]

As previously noted, I was in UCD yesterday. As well as meeting with some of the UCD Principal Investigators (PI) that I work with, I also gave a presentation on seeking SFI funding. The presentation was targeted at non-funded researchers (both tenured staff and non-tenured post-grad and post-doc students).
We got a turn-out of [...]

As well as the Google project that I mentioned previously, the AIC has established a collaboration with Microsoft in a micro camera project.
From irishdev

Microsoft has chosen a DCU research team to take part in a project to create tiny cameras that can record a searchable digital picture diary of your entire day.

Microsoft Research in Redmond, [...]

There’s been a bunch of press recently over a collaboration between Google and the Adaptive Information Cluster. The AIC is an SFI funded project, with researchers located in Dublin City University and University College Dublin.
From Silicon Republic’s coverage:

Google has chosen Dublin City University’s (DCU) Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) to take part in a project [...]