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UCD launches Quantum Centre to help tackle humanity’s greatest challenges 19Jul
UCD launches Quantum Centre to help tackle humanity’s greatest challenges

The promise of quantum computing seems limitless - better weather forecasts, superfast financial market analysis, more effective cancer drugs and energy-saving solutions to the climate crisis. Little wonder the value of the industry globally is predicted to reach over a trillion dollars in the coming 15 years.

Ask me anything about AI! 11Jun
Ask me anything about AI!

At the UCD Festival on June 11th, 2022, Prof Patricia Maguire, director of UCD Institute for Discovery, led a lively Q&A session with Laurence Moroney, Artificial Intelligence Advocacy Lead at Google, entitled, “Ask me anything about AI!”

UCD Discovery delighted to partner on Intel laser harp project 27May
UCD Discovery delighted to partner on Intel laser harp project

At UCD Discovery we support innovative, cross-disciplinary projects - and if they are beautiful and play music too, even better! We are delighted to have been involved in bringing to UCD the Intel laser harp, a stunning piece of design engineering

Dublin Climate Dialogues: Prof Patricia Maguire in conversation with Mary Quaney, CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power 20May
Dublin Climate Dialogues: Prof Patricia Maguire in conversation with Mary Quaney, CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power

On Day Two of the Dublin Climate Dialogues on May 20th, 2021, UCD Discovery director Professor Patricia Maguire spoke to Mary Quaney, CEO of Mainstream Renewable Power, an Irish company leading in the global development of onshore and offshore wind and solar projects.

UCD Discovery is proud to support Dublin Climate Dialogues 29Apr
UCD Discovery is proud to support Dublin Climate Dialogues

UCD Institute for Discovery is delighted to support the upcoming Dublin Climate Dialogues (May 19-20th). Our Director Prof Patricia Maguire is a member of the Steering Committee and will also host a fireside chat on Day Two of the event.

AI_PREMie wins NovaUCD Invention of the Year Award 2021 29Mar
AI_PREMie wins NovaUCD Invention of the Year Award 2021

A new blood test that will protect the lives of mothers and their newborn babies has won the Invention of the Year Award at the 2021 NovaUCD Innovation Awards today. AI_PREMie is a risk stratification tool, powered by artificial intelligence that will identify women with the pregnancy complication preeclampsia.

Leaving Cert students should follow “Passion! Not Points!” says top guidance counsellor 31Jan
Leaving Cert students should follow “Passion! Not Points!” says top guidance counsellor

Leaving Cert students should choose career paths based on their passions - and not on the points system. So says Irish Times columnist and former president of the Institute of Guidance Counsellors, Brian Mooney.

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