Steve Flinter’s blog

Yesterday, SFI announced the appointment of Prof. Mark Keane as the Temporary Director General. Mark is (or at least was) the ICT Director within SFI (and my boss). Readers of my blog will have been following the story surrounding the departure of the previous Director General, Bill Harris (see here, here and here). [...]

The Sunday Business Post – one of Ireland’s premium Sunday newspapers – has an article covering the recruitment of a new Chief Scientific Adviser and Director General of Science Foundation Ireland.

The government is also set to appoint a new director general of Science Foundation Ireland (SFI), the state body that has a €646 million budget [...]

There are a bunch of web-based feed-readers out there (e.g. Bloglines, NewsGator Online, Google Reader, and about a million others). I recently came across NewsHutch by way of an entry in the Signal vs. Noise blog. The interface is beautifully clean and easy to use. The major drawback (at the moment) is [...]

I visited NovaUCD a few months ago to get a sense of what was happening in the innovation space in UCD. NovaUCD, the innvoation and technology centre of UCD, is located in an old estate house on the Belfield campus, a few minutes walk from the engineering and computer science buildings.
They currently have a [...]

Recently, Dick Ahlstrom (science editor of the Irish Times and the leading science writer in Ireland) published an interview with Bill Harris. This interview is reported and published in full in TMCNet.
In the interview, he refers to his departure (which took place last Friday). I’ve mentioned this myself previously (here and here).

He expresses [...]

The maps of too many websites (our own included, unfortunately) have pretty poor maps to their office locations. Since the advent of Google maps, the excuse for such poor maps becomes harder and harder to make.
Thanks to an excellent new site called quikmaps, you can now create google maps very easily with your own [...]