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Considering the public debate at present on
developing a sustainable transport infrastructure, overcoming the enormous
quantity of water lost due to faulty piping, grasping the potential of Open
Data and sensor technology, a series of scientific talks and discussions
happening next Tuesday night should be of interest and of benefit to people
living in Galway. Entitled The Future is
Smart the event will take place at
7pm on Tuesday May 19th in the Busker Brownes pub as part of Pint of Science, a new way of
delivering science issues in a fun, engaging and approachable manner to an
audience that will contain members of the general public as well as third level
students and staff..
The
Future is Smart line up comprises:
- Dr Adegboyega Ojo, Insight NUI Galway – SMART Cities
- Niall O'Brolchain, Insight NUI Galway – SMART Tourists
- Wassim Derguech, Insight NUI Galway – SMART Water
- Dr Rachel Quinlan, School of Mathematics, NUI Galway – SMART Sums
Duration of each talk: 10-15mins. Brendan Smith (me!)
will act as the MC for the evening.
After the talks, the speakers will join a panel with three specially invited guests (Catherine Cronin Academic Co-ordinator of online IT programmes at Information Technology NUI Galway; Dr. Chris Coughlan Senior Manager in charge of Global Cloud Services Innovation Centre at Hewlett Packard Galway & Dr. Michael Madden head of Information Technology NUIG) to answer questions and start debating issues that the audience will bring forward.
The aim of The Future is Smart
is to engage the general public in a discussion on how these new technologies
will impact on our future and make ordinary people aware that this type
of world-changing research is actually taking place right here in Galway.
For the NUIG researchers it will allow them the opportunity to
present &/or discuss their research work in front of a lay audience, which
is something that doesn't happen often enough.
The event is free but ticketed to a max of 100 persons. The tickets are available on www.pintofscience.ie. So please support a new method to bring scientific research to the general public by booking your place as soon as possible and encourage others to do likewise.
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