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How Jean-Michel Jarre has reflected France and the world through his music over multiple generations
Who is JMJ? In 1948, French electronic musician Jean-Michel Jarre was born in Lyon. His mother, France Pejot, was a Lyonnaise resistance fighter and concentration camp survivor, and his father, Maurice Jarre, was a composer of film music (including the soundtracks to David Lean’s “Lawrence of Arabia” and “Doctor Zhivago”).…
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Professorships: Academic Trajectory and Tips for Applicants
In June 2019, I received informal word that I was to be promoted to a Personal Professorship in Electronic Engineering at the National University of Ireland Galway, with the formal letter coming in early July. The promotion process as a whole has become a lot more transparent in recent years,…
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TechInnovate’s 2018 in Review
It was another great year for TechInnovate at NUI Galway… Here is a review of our 2018 activities in the areas of entrepreneurship education and technology innovation! We kicked off our €1M STARTED Project in January to teach researchers how to create startups, funded by the European Commission’s Erasmus+ Knowledge Alliances programme.…
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Moving All Mail and Other Items from Outlook .PST Files/Subfolders to One .PST File/Folder
I found some useful code by Shirley Zhang from DataNumen recently in my quest to move all messages from multiple Outlook (Windows) .PST files, including all subfolders, into one folder in another open .PST file. Firstly, there’s this code to count all the messages in a .PST file, and secondly…
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My Curriculum Vitæ/Résumé Template for Researchers/Academics using LaTeX
A few years ago, I decided to make the jump from Word to LaTeX for creating my academic research curriculum vitæ (résumé). There were various reasons for this: a more professional-looking style, better control, and being able to more easily include a reusable BiBTeX bibliography, given that many of the…
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Call for TechInnovate Vertical Farming and Connected Health Teams in 2017/2018
We are inviting professionals to apply for our 2017/2018 TechInnovate Entrepreneurship Fellowships at NUI Galway. TechInnovate is a ten-month stipend-supported programme that teaches professionals the entrepreneurial skills required to develop innovation-driven enterprises. This year’s domains are Vertical Farming and Connected Health (the latter is being run in conjunction with our sister programme BioInnovate Ireland). Two interdisciplinary teams will find unmet needs…
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“Encouragement needs to be shown for STEM in both men and women”
On Monday, I was interviewed by Keith Finnegan on Galway Bay FM about the Science Apprentice book series. I contributed to the fourth book in the series, ‘Computers and Data’, which is out this Saturday, November 19, as part of Science Week. KF: “You’re really bringing it down to the younger people.” JB: “I think…
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Galway Scientist Contributes to New Children’s Book Series
A Galway researcher is hoping a new series of children’s books will encourage more young people to consider a career in science and technology. NUI Galway lecturer Dr John Breslin is one of a number of high-profile scientists from Ireland who have come together to produce a series of five…
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Web Archive Ontology (SIOC+CDM)
Ontology Prototype We (John G. Breslin and Guangyuan Piao, Unit for Social Semantics, Insight Centre for Data Analytics, NUI Galway) have created a prototype ontology for web archives based on two existing ontologies: Semantically-Interlinked Online Communities (SIOC) and the Common Data Model (CDM). Figure 1: Initial Prototype of Web Archive…
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Government Linked Data Goes With George Thomas
Creative Commons image of the mural in Peru’s Temple of the Sun is from https://www.flickr.com/photos/anntatti/3012766802/. When writing about a person’s significant achievements, it would be so much better if the person themselves could hear the good things you were saying about them. Unfortunately, the person I am writing about, George Thomas, passed…
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