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Trinity Innovation Awards celebrate academics’ contribution to research and innovation

Dr Bruce Murphy, a prolific innovator and translational researcher working in medical device design, received the headline Provost’s Innovation Award at the annual event that brings Trinity’s stellar innovation and enterprise community together.

8 Nov 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Research

Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels delivers masterclass to Trinity computer science students

Amazon.com Vice President and Chief Technology Officer Dr Werner Vogels delivered a Masterclass entitled ‘From Research to Production: Applying Distributed Computing Concepts to the Real World’ to students on the MSc programme in Computer Science on his recent visit to Trinity.

26 Oct 2023

Innovation|Research|Students

Learnovate and Amazon launch accelerator programme for EdTech firms

The EdTech Accelerator Programme is a collaboration between Learnovate, a leading global future of work and learning research hub in Trinity College Dublin, and AWS.

16 Oct 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation

Bí i d’abhatár, bain triail as bheith i do scríobhaí meánaoiseach agus cláraigh do dhianchampa luibheolaíochta ag Féile START

Is cuid d’Oíche Thaighdeoirí na hEorpa í Féile START (Start Talking About Research Today), imeacht poiblí ar fud na hEorpa, ina dtaispeántar an éagsúlacht taighde agus an tionchar a bhíonn aige ar shaol laethúil saoránach ar bhealaí spraíúla spreagúla. I mbliana beidh imeachtaí á reáchtáil in 26 tír ar fud na hEorpa.

29 Sep 2023

Arts|Innovation|Research|Science|Society

Academy of the Near Future wins Silver at Seoul Smart City prize

Academy of the Near Future (ANF) has been awarded silver in the ‘Human-Centricity’ category at the Seoul Smart City Prize in South Korea. ANF is a collaborative initiative between Dublin City Council and CONNECT, the SFI Research Centre for Future Networks at Trinity.

28 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Innovation|Sustainability

Does AI have a right to free speech?

Granting AI free speech rights would both support and undermine our freedom of thought, writes Dr Simon McCarthy-Jones, Psychiatry, in this piece originally published in The Conversation.

28 Sep 2023

Innovation|Research|Science

High-end geospatial technology company ai mapit spins out of Trinity

ai mapit, a spinout company from the SFI ADAPT Centre at Trinity, has launched into the global geographic information systems (GIS) market with a revolutionary geotagging solution that promises to enhance productivity, reduce operational costs and carbon footprint by minimising the number of site visits.

26 Sep 2023

Business|Environment|Innovation|Research

Student start-up Hebe Adventures wins LaunchBox contest

This year, ten teams collectively representing seven Trinity schools were selected to partake in the LaunchBox programme, which is the oldest of its kind in Ireland, and which is currently seeking a new sponsor.

7 Sep 2023

Awards and Funding|Business|Innovation|Students

New project will improve EU hydropower sustainability with potential to save €1 billion per year

Researchers from Trinity will lead a €4.1 million Horizon Europe project to develop digital solutions that improve the efficiency, flexibility and sustainability of the existing EU hydropower fleet. The project will make a huge impact on energy sustainability in the EU, where 50% of the current hydro fleet may require upgrading by 2030.

7 Sep 2023

Environment|Innovation|Research|Sustainability

Trinity-IBM team simulates super diffusion on a quantum computer

Trinity’s quantum physicists in collaboration with IBM Dublin have successfully simulated super diffusion in a system of interacting quantum particles on a quantum computer.

17 Aug 2023

Innovation|Research|Science