ADAPT Researcher Helen McHugh was featured on Raidió na Life on a programme called Blas na Cathrach hosted by Joe Breathnach. She discusses eTranslation, which is a machine translation service provided by the European Commission to all public servants and all start-ups and small to medium enterprises across the EU, completely free of charge.

She also goes into her eTranslation work with ADAPT which focuses on Irish language and sourcing English to Irish translations form bodies such as Government Departments, County and City Councils, and other public bodies such as Conradh na Gaeilge, An Coimisinéir Teanga, Foras na Gaeilge, universities to grow the samples size to improve the eTranslations over time.

Dr Jamie McGann and Prof Johann Issartel have recognised the crisis of sedentary habits among children. A mix of reduced outdoors space, safety concerns, and technology have reduced the amount of movement in children's play and increased screen time. The two are developing MoveAhead which uses kid's bodies as controllers for video games.

Eamonn Donlyn explores the big ideas behind Darwin and Goliath, a micro-recommender system currently used for eCommerce. The Amazons and Netlifxes of the world have the capital for elaborate recommendation systems that are custom-made for their products, but smaller sellers don't have that luxury. The Darwin and Goliath system seeks to democratise the machine learning tech and expand it to uses beyond eCommerce.

Liam Cronin, of the RDI Hub in Killorgin, County Kerry, discusses their aims as a not-for-profit collaborative workspace to foster growth and creativity among budding start-ups. He discusses his own journey that has lead to RDI partnering with the ADAPT Centre and Microsoft to put on the inaugural 'John McCarthy AI Summer School'.

Learn more about the event and register to hear from experts on sustainable AI here: https://www.eventbrite.ie/e/the-international-john-mccarthy-ai-summer-school-tickets-116201069527

Kieran Fraser, a member of the EmPushy team, discusses their project that seeks to humanise push notifications using AI and user-imputed data. The software seeks to make push notifications a much less intrusive part of the user experience, making them more helpful to those receiving them and more useful for those sending them out.

CaliberAI, led by the father son duo Conor and Neil Brady, have come up with an AI solution to improve the quality and standard of public discourse across traditional and online media. The platform, which is based on machine learning, can pick up potentially defamatory text and flag it for human review - almost like a spell check for libel.

Vladimir Krylov, a member of the AIMapIT research team, discusses their development of an AI system for discovery, detection and GPS mapping of stationary street assets. This breakthrough will decrease the amount of personnel hours required for these jobs and will also remove any human error that may occur.

Nicole Baker, co-founder of Biologit, talks on their development of an AI system that collects pharmacovigilance data into one database. This development in streamlining the collection of this data will decrease the amount of personnel hours spent on just filtering out the unimportant, and as such decrease the time between an issue being flagged and it being rectified.

Conor McNally, ADAPT’s Business and Startup Development Manager, discusses how startups can benefit from collaboration with academic researchers. He also discusses his own journey and experiences that enable him to run this programme and advise budding companies.

This is the first episode of Series 2, which will highlight the various startup projects that are being developed with ADAPT support.

Professor Vinny Wade, ADAPT's Director and Chair of Computer Science in the School of Computer Science and Statistics at Trinity College Dublin, discusses how technology is developing so quickly that the user may be left behind in the process. For the launch of the new Human+ initiative, Vinny speaks about the need for industry and academia to collaborate across disciplines to develop solutions with the human user at the fore. https://humanplus.ie/

The launch event was in partnership with the Trinity Long Room as part of their Behind the Headlines discussion series. The full audio of the panel discussion can be found here: https://soundcloud.com/tlrhub/behind-the-headlines-humantechnology-beyond-covid-19