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 [...]
The price of oil
May 26th, 2008 No Comments
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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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