Tagged: Academia & News
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Yahoo! director who led CEO search stepping down News
09.05.2012 The director who led the hiring of Yahoo! CEO Scott Thompson, who has apologised to Yahoo! employees for an error in his educational credentials, will not seek re-election on... -
Yahoo! to review 'error' in CEO's background News
04.05.2012 Digital media giant Yahoo confirmed a discrepancy in the academic background of its CEO Scott Thompson and said it will review the matter and report the findings to shareholders. -
12 tech start-ups join UCD’s 2012 entrepreneurship programme News
02.05.2012 Twelve new knowledge-intensive business ventures and 28 researchers are taking part in UCD’s 2012 entrepreneurship programme, the university said this morning. -
Android app for election canvassing wins student contest News
04.04.2012 Brendan Finucane, a final-year student in business information systems at University College Cork (UCC), has taken first prize in a Dragons’ Den-style competition for his app,... -
Undergraduate Awards seek out the world’s brightest students News
02.04.2012 University students from Ireland, the US, the UK and Canada have until 2 July to get their entries in for this year’s Undergraduate Awards programme, which looks set to be a... -
Intel vice-president rides next wave of innovation News
10.11.2011 Rory McInerney is the Intel vice-president responsible for creating chips that power the world’s data centres, e-commerce sites and social networks.Categories: Web, Social Media, Servers, Research, R&D, Mobility, Leadership & Management, Internet, eCommerce, Development, Data Centre, Computers -
Trinity College suspects inside job behind Conan profile News
16.09.2011 The fake academic profile on a Trinity College Dublin website about a new English lecturer by the name of Conan T. Barbarian was likely not the work of an outside hacker, a... -
NovaUCD programme launches with 13 new ventures News
24.03.2011 Thirteen new high-tech and knowledge-intensive business ventures have joined NovaUCD’s 2011 entrepreneurship programme.Categories: Software Development, Software & Web Development, Software, Research, R&D, Enterprise, Development -
12 graduates to benefit from €500,000 anonymous donation News
21.03.2011 A €500,000 donation from an anonymous private donor will provide an opportunity for 12 graduates to attend UCD Michael Smurfit Graduate Business School. -
Life Science Recruitment launches academicjobs.ie News
11.03.2011 Dublin-based Life Science Recruitment, which is a specialist scientific and healthcare recruitment company, has launched academicjobs.ie, aimed at university graduates. -
Microsoft Research releases SDK for Kinect News
22.02.2011 Microsoft will release a non-commercial software development kit (SDK) for using its Kinect motion controller on PCs. -
US multinational reaffirms research commitment in Ireland News
28.01.2011 US multinational technology corporation Xilinx will be recruiting more PhD-level researchers to support its R&D initiatives in Dublin, the company's senior vice-president and... -
Great War Archive to digitise World War I memories News
16.12.2010 The German National Library, Oxford University and Europeana have signed an agreement to digitise family papers and memorabilia from Word War I to create an online archive about... -
Minister names research competence centre leaders News
09.09.2010 The members of the team of technology leaders that will run eight research centres aimed at linking industry and academics to work on market-focused innovative products have... -
Industry/academic research links grew 25pc in past year News
05.08.2010 Science Foundation Ireland’s 2009 annual report, launched today, showed that research links between industry and academia in Ireland grew by 25pc last year. -
Govt wants mandatory industry and academia research links News
26.05.2010 Academic researchers should be required to partner with industry at all stages of their work so that ‘smart’ jobs can be created, asserted Batt O’Keeffe TD.