[05.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]IBM researchers have made a breakthrough in cooling stack chips with water, a methodology that promises to advance Moore’s Law and reduce energy consumed by data centres.
For the first time IBM researchers, in collaboration with the Fraunhofer Institute in Berlin, demonstrated a prototype that integrates the water cooling […]

[05.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A training initiative that saw over 6,000 long-term unemployed people in the Republic of Ireland get trained up and gain well-paid jobs in the ICT industry is to be rolled out in Northern Ireland.
The Fast Track to IT (FIT) gave Irish people speedy access to the technical and […]

[04.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A total of 654 primary schools around Ireland will be receiving awards in science excellence over the coming fortnight as part of Discover Primary Science, the flagship project from the government organisation Discover Science and Engineering.
Discover Primary Science is an initiative to train primary teachers in science skills […]

[04.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]http://www.enterprise-ireland.com/ funding kickstarted 18 new indigenous companies from 2005 to 2007, the State agency has said.
Enterprise Ireland has invested €275m in the third-level research and innovation system since 2000. During the three-year period 2005–2007, the third-level sector has produced 95 licences, 26 start-up companies and hundreds of patents […]

[03.06.2008 first posted on silicon republic]A selection of audio and video lectures and talks from Trinity College Dublin (TCD) today became available on Apple’s educational podcast service, iTunes U, making it the first Irish university to join.
The iTunes U store is a free educational research tool that works in association with educational institutes […]

[29.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]The rise in living standards in the western world has brought with it a decline in interest in the fields of technology, engineering and the ‘hard’ sciences which ironically are the driving force behind these rising standards, said the new president of Engineers Ireland.
At his inaugural address, the […]

[28.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Technology is at the top of the shopping list as retailers check out ways of controlling costs and improving efficiency in the face of increased competition and a slowing economy.
Despite a certain amount of gloom and doom the Irish retail spend continues to rise albeit at a […]

[23.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]Raising public awareness of potential careers in science, engineering and technology is a key role played by Engineers Ireland, and each year it awards an individual or organisation that has done this through promoting careers, education or similar in this sector.
This year’s award went to the Galway Education […]

[23.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]When former education minister Mary Hanafin announced in February 2007 that an advisory board was being established to determine how to spend the budgeted €252m allocated to upgrading much-needed ICT (information and communications technology) in schools around Ireland, little did we think that over a year later the funds would […]

[16.05.2008 first posted on silicon republic]IBM and researchers at University of Washington are aiming to harness grid computing in a bid to develop stronger strains of rice to prevent famine.
The project utilises IBM’s World Community Grid, which harnesses the unused, donated power from nearly one million PCs. The processing power is 167 teraflops, […]