Category: General
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Olympian John Treacy Praises Sports & [Exercise] Engineering Degree at NUI Galway
From http://www.nuigalway.ie/news/main_press.php?p_id=1069: Olympic silver medallist and former double World Cross Country Champion, John Treacy, today (Friday, 10 July) officially launched NUI Galway’s B.E. in Sports & Exercise Engineering. The degree programme, which incorporates significant elements of Anatomy, Physiology, and Mechanical Engineering with a major in Electronic Engineering, puts particular emphasis…
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Mum, Mary Casey Breslin (1950-2009)
My mother, Mary Casey Breslin, died two weeks ago today. It was a terrible shock to all of our family, but I wanted to say a few words about her so that you would have an idea about what an influence she was on my life and the lives of…
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BlogTalk 2008 Summary
Well, I’ve been on a well-deserved break (in my opinion anyway!) for the past two weeks so it’s time that I caught up with all the stuff I’ve only been tweeting about in the meantime… Picture by Paul Downey. First up, it’s a summary of BlogTalk (and WebCamp). Actually, a…
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"The semantic web enables us to use portals in a more intelligent fashion, so we can do business more efficiently"
The Irish Times: Innovation The Return of the Portal Haydn Shaughnessy March 10, 2008 In a perfect world, the internet would have evolved in a planned and orderly way, and that means, quite illogically, that Web 2.0 would not have followed Web 1.0. The plan hatched by experts at the…
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See Saw Margery Daw
See Saw Margery Daw Johnny shall have a new master He shall earn but a penny a day Because he cannot work any faster
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SIOC tutorial accepted for WWW2008
I’m happy to announce that our tutorial proposal on SIOC entitled “Interlinking Online Communities and Enriching Social Software with the Semantic Web” (Uldis Bojars and John Breslin of DERI, NUI Galway, Alexandre Passant of EDF R&D / LaLICC, Université Paris 4) has been accepted for WWW2008, the 14th International World…