Feature: BETT 2010
Wednesday, January 13th, 2010Villa81 headed over to BETT, the top dog in educational technology trade shows. Samsung, Ricoh, and O2 were among the exhibitors at the event.
BETT concludes on the 16th of January.
Feature: The Big Bang theory
Sunday, June 14th, 2009Dr Cormac Ó Raifeartaigh gave a talk on the Big Bang at the Science Gallery in Dublin on Wednesday. The event was organised by the Alchemist Café, a group which organises monthly public talks on science and technology.
Further information on the Alchemist Café’s events can be found here.
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Feature: Imagine Cup Dragons Den
Tuesday, June 9th, 2009With Trinity Sight set to be Ireland’s sole representatives at the Imagine Cup in Cairo next month, Villa81 looked at how last year’s Irish representatives fared in a Dragons Den event.
Parkit from Sligo IT and AcidRain from NUI Maynooth competed against students from across the globe at the World Finals in Paris last year but [...]
Feature: UCD and Siemens develop a robot boat
Thursday, June 4th, 2009In the week of a new Terminator film being launched, Villa81 got a look at a boat that could be a pre-cursor to a real life Skynet. The Siemens Autonomous Sailboat is thankfully being designed for purposes much more beneficial than the destruction of humanity.
UCD and Siemens hope to hold the first test of the [...]
Feature: Ireland’s largest supercomputer unveiled
Sunday, March 1st, 2009The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) launched the Stokes Cluster at the Royal Irish Academy on Thursday. Villa81 was there to find out why this new supercomputer, Ireland’s largest, is important to Irish researchers.
To put it bluntly this is a big device. There’s a whole host of large numbers to scare you with but [...]