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Government to invest €193m in five SFI research centres Five Science Foundation Ireland research centres spanning medical devices, AI technology, future networks and more will receive the funding over the next six years. Today (1 February), Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science Simon Harris, TD, announced an investment of €193m in five Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research centres over the next six years. The centres – Adapt, Connect, Cúram, iCrag and Lero – carry out research across cybersecurity, e-health, energy and marine resources, AI, d...

Beyond sci-fi: The state of AI and what’s to come Image: © kras99/Stock.adobe.com Silicon Republic editor Elaine Burke discusses the future of AI and voice interaction with experts and industry partners from the Adapt research centre. Artificial intelligence, or AI, has been part of popular vernacular for some time now. For many in my generation and generations before, our first encounters of the AI kind likely came from the fantastical imaginations of filmmakers and fiction writers. The future these sci-fi stories explored has arrived in many ways but, in the 21st century, AI is not so mu...

Tech mag asks: Should we really investigate cold cases involving murdered or abandoned infants? Print this article Medium’s science publication, Future Human, has an article out this week investigating the new technologies being used to solve cold cases involving murdered or abandoned infant children. The weird thing about the article is that it comes across as sympathetic toward the mothers who commit said crimes. In fact, it’s hard to read the article and not come away with the distinct impression that the author believes these unsolved crimes ought to remain unsolved for the sake o...

The project economy: How gig workers will evolve in the future Prof Andrew Burke. Image: © Chris Bellew/Fennell Photography After a year of stark changes to the working world, dean of Trinity Business School Andrew Burke believes it’s time the gig economy had its own transformation. The gig economy has been growing steadily for years, but as we move into a new era of what the future of work will be, an evolution could take place that will change how exactly the gig economy works. Speaking at the virtual Future Human conference this year, Trinity Business School dean Prof Andrew Burke said...

Ireland’s Prof Barry O’Sullivan wins global computer science award Image: © sergign/Stock.adobe.com The director of the Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics is the first Irish recipient of the Nerode Prize. As part of the International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC) this week, Prof Barry O’Sullivan was announced as the winner of one of the top computer science prizes in the world. The Nerode Prize is awarded for outstanding research in the area of multivariate algorithmics by the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science and the International Symp...