Steve Flinter’s blog

At a recent visit to the Hamilton Institute at NUIM, we heard about the Hamilton Mathematics Grand Challenge. This is an outreach programme developed by the researchers there, and funded partly by SFI.
The idea behind the programme is to get secondary school children to participate in solving maths and logic puzzles. The puzzles [...]

We have been informed that DETE has formally announced the appointment of Professor Patrick Cunningham of the Department of Genetics, TCD to the office of Chief Science Advisor to the Government.
As of the time of writing, there is no formal announcement on either the DETE or Science Advisory web sites. I’m sure that that [...]

Silicon Republic is reporting that TCD School of Computer Science has won an award of a technology donation from IBM of its Cell Broadband Engine).
Although unnamed, the recipients of the award are almost certainly a recent SFI award winning team, headed up by Prof. Carol O’Sullivan and with Dr. Steven Collins, Dr. Fiona Newell and [...]

According to the definitive web 2.0 validator, my blog scores 14 out of 50 in the web2.0 validation test, whereas the almightly flickr only scores 4 ex 50.
I’m 3.5 times more web2.0sey than flickr. Who’a thunk it?
Update. Following this post my score jumped to an impressive 17 ex 50, making me 4.25 [...]

At an internal meeting today, our DG brought our attention to a piece written in yesterday’s Financial Times. The article, by Alan Cane, is entitled Joining forces for innovation in the face of globalisation. It’s based on a Forrester report that looks at innovation transformers. These are defined as countries that are [...]