Science Foundation Ireland
Mr. Micheál Martin, T.D, Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment, today (Tuesday 15th April 2008) announced the establishment of CLARITY a new Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET). This ground breaking research centre will focus on the so-called ‘Sensor Web’, which captures the intersection between two important research areas – Adaptive Sensing and Information Discovery. The new cutting-edge CLARITY CSET is a partnership between University College Dublin and Dublin City University, supported by research at the Tyndall National Institute (TNI) Cork. The CLARITY CSET Director is Professor Barry Smyth (University College Dublin) and the Deputy Director is DCU’s Professor Alan Smeaton. In total, over 90 highly skilled personnel will be working to deliver the CLARITY research programme. In addition, CLARITY will collaborate with leading multinationals and SMEs including IBM.