Cork student who designed software to detect deepfake videos wins 2021 BTYSTE contest irishtimes.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from irishtimes.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Limerick students enjoy success at BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2021
Reporter:
david.hurley@limerickleader.ie
Taha Njie and Sean O’Sullivan from Colaiste Chiarain, Croom with their project ‘Shining a Light on School Coronavirus Cleaning Protocols’ | PICTURE: Chris Bellew /Fennell Photography );
);
SEVERAL Limerick students enjoyed success at the BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition 2021 Awards Ceremony, which took place virtually because of Covid-19.
A total of 16 awards were presented to students from Limerick schools for their impressive projects entered in this year’s exhibition which concluded yesterday afternoon.
One of the Limerick award winners was Keelin Murphy from Laurel Hill Secondary School FCJ who was awarded the Fr Tom Burke Bursary Award after she was deemed, by the judges, to be the best communicator.
Clodagh Finn: Is Women’s Little Christmas really a day to celebrate?
There should be no such thing as women s issues, only human rights issues, writes Clodagh Finn
Marian Finucane and Nuala O Faolain were supremely talented women who fought to achieve social change in Ireland.
Wed, 06 Jan, 2021 - 07:00
Happy Nollaig na mBan! I want to rejoice and be happy and embrace Women’s Little Christmas, which falls today, but something is holding me back.
Perhaps it’s the memory of the look on my late mother’s face when we suggested marking Wee Christmas, as it is also known. With an almost imperceptible curl of the lip, she said a polite ‘no, thank you’, that she would not be accepting the scraps of the festive season.
This 17-year-old student has won this year s BT Young Scientists top award
Gregory Tarr won for his project entitled “Towards detecting state-of-the-art deepfakes”. By Hayley Halpin Friday 8 Jan 2021, 2:26 PM Jan 8th 2021, 2:26 PM 36,282 Views 25 Comments
Gregory Tarr
Gregory Tarr
THE WINNERS OF this year’s BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition have been announced.
Gregory Tarr, aged 17, a sixth year student from Bandon Grammar School in Co Cork has won the top prize for his project entitled “Towards detecting state-of-the-art deepfakes”.
Deepfakes are videos or images in which a person’s face or body has been digitally altered so that they appear to be someone else. They are often used to spread false information.