Tagged: Algorithms & News
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Swim Ireland and NUI Galway to pioneer analysis system for elite swimmers News
27.05.2013 Swim Ireland is embarking on a new research project with researchers at NUI Galway to develop a high-performance analysis system for competitive swimming. Deploying kinematic... -
Researchers develop computer-based system to help identify people at risk of suicide News
14.02.2013 A research group at NUI Maynooth’s Department of Psychology has developed a computer-based system with the aim of helping healthcare professionals identify people who are at... -
UK teenager’s iOS app Summly goes into top 10 in US App Store overnight News
02.11.2012 Summly, a news reading app created by 17-year-old Londoner Nick D’Aloisio, has gone to No 9 in the US App Store just hours after being released. -
Netflix innovator - contextual algorithms will be key to future media search News
15.10.2012 Search professionals in internet firms from Netflix to Facebook and LinkedIn are focusing on a new generation of contextual algorithms that better match users with the content... -
Oscar winner plotted a digital route to Silicon Valley via Dublin and Hollywood News
13.09.2012 One of the miracles of the evolving digital media space is how individuals quietly working away on new technologies can send ripples through entire industries, like the movie...Tags: Google, YouTube, Hollywood, ITLG, Silicon Valley, Trinity College Dublin, Start-ups, Algorithms, -
Google’s new search algorithms crack down on piracy, but YouTube is unscathed News
13.08.2012 On Friday, Google announced an update to its search algorithms that will roll out this week. This update now takes copyright infringement into account, and sites found in...Tags: The Pirate Bay, Piracy, YouTube, Algorithms, Search, Google, Copyright Infringement, Copyright -
Alan Turing 'father of computer science' commemorated in interactive Google doodle News
23.06.2012 Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, has been commemorated in a special interactive Google doodle that simulates the theoretical Turing machine that Turing proposed in a... -
Millions of LinkedIn and eHarmony passwords leaked online News
07.06.2012 Passwords for accounts on both LinkedIn and eHarmony have been compromised, and users of both are advised to make secure changes. -
Harvard Business Review publisher: relevancy is key to digital age News
18.05.2012 The key word of the digital age and in a time of social sharing and algorithms is ‘relevancy’, the publisher of the Harvard Business Review Josh Macht told publishers this week....Categories: Multimedia, Mobility, Mobile, Media, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Marketing, Digital Business, Consumer Tech -
Neurosurgeons create robotic arm brainwaves can control (video) News
17.05.2012 A team of neuroscientists in the US have been carrying out clinical trials known as BrainGate. They’ve been working on a robotic arm for people who are unable to move their... -
Irish start-up in finals of US health-tech competition News
11.04.2012 Irish health-tech start-up Cara Health, which we featured in February as a tech start-up of the week, has made it to the final three start-ups in a US healthcare competition. -
Scientists pioneer new encryption technology for Google Docs (video) News
04.04.2012 Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have come up with a new encryption technology called CipherDocs to secure documents that are sent and stored in the cloud via Google... -
Facebook investing efforts in a better search engine News
30.03.2012 Social network Facebook is working on overhauling its existing search system with a newer, improved search engine to better navigate the volume of data on its site. -
Tech Start-up of the Week: 45 Sound News
04.03.2012 Our featured tech start-up this week is 45Sound.com, a new online venture that’s aiming to revolutionise how we listen to concerts and gigs from our favourite bands and artists...Categories: Social Media, Science, Mobile, Internet, Intellectual Property, Graduate, Education, Digital Media -
CeltixConnect fibre gateway goes live News
20.02.2012 The CeltixConnect fibre gateway that connects Dublin to London and Manchester has just gone live. The 144-fibre network rolled out by Sea Fibre Networks is aiming to be a game...Categories: Online Business, Internet, Government, Financial Services, Financial, Economy, Digital Media, CIO -
Dublin students Eric Doyle and Mark Kelly win Young Scientist competition News
13.01.2012 Tonight students Mark Kelly and Eric Doyle scooped the top accolade at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition for 2012 in Dublin. The duo, who study at Synge Street CBS... -
Facebook shrinks the world down to four degrees of separation News
22.11.2011 Once it was believed that most of us were six degrees of separation apart. But now data boffins at Facebook have surmised that because of social networking that idea is defunct... -
Google reveals 10 new search algorithm changes News
14.11.2011 Search giant Google has provided an insight into 10 changes it has made out of the 500 changes it makes in a typical year to its search algorithm.Categories: Software & Web Development, Software, Search, Internet, Digital Media, Digital Business, Development, Design, Database -
Welcome to the era of the data scientist News
04.10.2011 Irish companies will soon need to recruit new technology experts called data scientists to work out precisely what products and services consumers will want, according to EMC... -
Google algorithm change could hit legit e-commerce sites News
11.03.2011 Following an algorithm update targeting content farms, international e-commerce vendors are being urged to update content on their sites because Google’s next algorithm change,...