Steve Flinter’s blog

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The price of oil

May 26th, 2008 No Comments

As the price of oil heads ever higher ($131.57 Friday close for Brent Crude), we are led to believe that this is a fundamental supply and demand issue. The supply is drying up, and getting ever more expensive to extract, and the demand is growing unchecked, with the entry of China and Russia into [...]

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Write up for Metropolis project

February 28th, 2007 No Comments

Silicon Republic is carrying an article on a project called Metropolis being conducted at the Interaction, Simulation and Graphics Lab at TCD.
Pretty good and accurate piece on the project.
The DERI blog also has an entry about this.

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TCD researchers win an IBM award

December 14th, 2006 No Comments

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 [...]

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First FP7 calls formally announced

November 29th, 2006 No Comments

The European Commission has formally announced that the first FP7 calls will be opened on December 22.

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