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Laois winners in the BT Young Scientist Exhibition 2021 includes a second time success Reporter: news@leinsterexpress.ie Evan Hogg from Heywood Community School winning at the 2020 BT Young Scientist Exhibition - he won again in in 2021. ');  '); Laois students were recognised and commended at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2021 Awards Ceremony and for one of them, it marked the second year in a row he has savoured success. A total of three awards were presented to Laois students for their impressive projects entered in this year’s virtual exhibition. In the Social and Beh...

This 17-year-old student has won this year's BT Young Scientists top award Gregory Tarr won for his project entitled “Towards detecting state-of-the-art deepfakes”. By Hayley Halpin Friday 8 Jan 2021, 2:26 PM Jan 8th 2021, 2:26 PM 36,282 Views 25 Comments Gregory Tarr Gregory Tarr THE WINNERS OF this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition have been announced. Gregory Tarr, aged 17, a sixth year student from Bandon Grammar S...

Share this article County Cork Leaving Cert student Greg Tarr has won this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition. The 17-year-old from Bandon Grammar School was honoured for programming an artificial intelligence computer programme that quickly and accurately detects ‘deepfake’ videos. The software for the project, entitled 'Detecting state-of-the-art deepfakes,' includes over 150,000 lines of code, with judges finding that it was significantly faster and more efficient than the current models on offer - with no sacrifice on its ability to accurately detect the fake. Deepfak...