Is Connecting Bits to Atoms Sufficient?

I’m just back from attending what was a very informative and thought provoking day. Well done Pat Doody and everyone else who organised the event. This event is sure to get bigger given the range of subject areas today covered. I will add my own summary of the presentations over the next few days. It was humbling and also extremely exciting to hear world class experts talk about their own particular field.

I was using Twitter during some of the presentations to send reminders for some information I was really interested in (and I had no pen). The jury’s still out for me on using it at conferences. I’m sure Jane Grimson gave me a dirty look while she was speaking. She must have thought I was texting a friend.

Tralee IT and MIT

Read this in the IT business pages. This is very exciting since it combines two areas I am very interested in and some expertise as well. Supply Chain and Data Integration/Systems Operability. 

Fantastic to see collaborations of this calibre taking place in Ireland and not just with Universities either. I would be interesting to see whether there exists knowledge sharing between CIDS (Centre for Innovation in Distributed Systems) and the DERI (Digital Enterprise Research Group) which does great work in Semantic Web Technologies. There is definately potential, Semantic Annocation and Integration of Data is the first thing comes to mind. Especially since DERI seem to have some interesting commercial projects in the pipeline.?