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CLARITY researchers 'Join the Dots' in public art installation

abird — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 09:19:16 +0000

CLARITY PI takes on the task of transforming the fitness levels of school children

abird — Fri, 27 Jan 2012 12:00:09 +0000

CLARITY PI appointed to International Advisory Board of the Australian ACES Centre

bkelly — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 10:11:10 +0000

Thesis in three final video highlights on YouTube

bkelly — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 13:13:52 +0000

CLARITY co-ordinated the Thesis in Three event in the Mansion House on the 9th November 2011 as part of Innovation Dublin. 25 speakers from the 9 CSETs gave an overview of their research in three slides in three minutes to a lay audience.

Highlights of the event are available on YouTube, more information about the event itself can be found on the Thesis in three website.

CLARITY DCU – Two Tube Blogging

Deirdre Sheridan — Thu, 12 Jan 2012 09:06:33 +0000

Congratulations to CLARITY researcher Sarah Hughes based in DCU on her recent article on 'How Scientific is Your Exercise Regime'.

CLARITY research at the heart of sport

bkelly — Mon, 09 Jan 2012 09:31:09 +0000

CLARITY researchers based in Tyndall National Institute have developed a matchbox-sized sensor which can decode a golf swing, measure the G-force of a rugby tackle, the speed of an archery arrow or the precise movements of a tennis ace.
The research, being carried out by Brendan O'Flynn and colleagues will benefit both fitness and health professionals in the field of physiotherapy.

CLARITY success at INVENT Commercialisation Awards

bkelly — Thu, 08 Dec 2011 11:41:26 +0000

CLARITY received awards at the recent INVENT DCU Commercialisation Awards

CLARITY DCU at leading edge of lifelogging research

Deirdre Sheridan — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 15:05:20 +0000

DCU this week hosted a TV film crew from the Discovery Channel who were visiting CLARITY to record scenes and to interview Dr Cathal Gurrin (CLARITY Collaborator and School of Computing Lecturer) for series 3 of a show entitled ‘Through the Wormhole with Morgan Freeman’. Through the Wormhole is an US science documentary television series narrated by US actor Morgan Freeman. Through the Wormhole brings together the brightest minds and best ideas from the world of science to discuss new groundbreaking technologies. The show regularly features the "Rock Stars of Science", such as Michio Kaku and Brian Cox. Series 3 of Through the Wormhole will be aired in mid 2012.

CLARITY director appointed to the Irish Times Trust

bkelly — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 07:27:22 +0000

CLARITY director Appointed to the Irish Times Trust

Congratulations to Professor Barry Smyth who recently has been appointed to the Irish Times Trust.
Details can be found on the Irish Times Website, here.

More information about the trust can be found on their website.

CLARITY Performs in TREC Microblog Results

Deirdre Sheridan — Fri, 02 Dec 2011 11:01:08 +0000

CLARITY researchers participating in the annual benchmarking task for microblog (Twitter) search achieved a very commendable performance in the new Microblog Track at this year's Text REtrieval Conference (TREC). One of the CLARITY submissions was the third-best performer while another was fifth-best out of a total of almost 200 submissions from nearly 60 research teams.