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• Established in September 1999 after cycle 1 of
  HEA PRLTI. Total Government/Private funding
  9.1 million
• 8.1 million for building and capital equipment
• 1.0 million for recurrent expenses over 3 years

Mission Statement
to define new research directions, and make
landmark contributions to the knowledge and
understanding of the information and
communication technologies of the Global
Information Society

• Objectives
• Enhance the research reputation of the
  University
• Generate significant human capital in ICT
• Transfer the technologies developed to Irish
  industry
• Provide advanced education and training services
  in ICT

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Context for RINCE ?
Global residential broadband market worth 80
billion by 2007. Source Nua Group.
Internet usage doubling every 90 days. Source
U.S. Dept. of Commerce
E-Commerce market will grow from 43 billion in
1998 to 1 trillion in 2003. Source Forrester
Research
Emphasis on optimization and extension of
technology and solution investments. Source
Gartner Group
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Research Programme Organisation
High Speed Networks
Mobility of Users and Applications
The User Interface
Bioinformatics Electronic Content
Radio Optical
TELTEC
RINCE
Vision Systems
Microelectronics, HDL Implementation HF
Electronics
Visual Media Processing Group
Performance Engineering
Switching Systems
Virtual Community Group
Physical Optronics Electronics
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Specific Achievements to date Personnel

• 32 additional research postgraduate students
  (MEng and PhD students).
• 5 new postdoctoral fellows.
• 20 academic staff collaborating to various
  degrees on RINCE related projects.
• 12 visiting academics have contributed
  significantly to RINCE's research programme (from
  foreign institutes including University of
  Auckland, University of Western Ontario,
  University of Dundee, Helsinki University of
  Technology, etc.)

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Specific Achievements to date Teaching Research

• Over 120 publications in internationally peer
  reviewed journals.
• Over 50 presentations at international
  conferences.
• RINCE members central to developing a new taught
  Masters course in Telecommunications.
• In addition to the work at postgrad level, RINCE
  members have played a predominant role in
  developing a new undergrad course in Digital
  Media Engineering.

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Specific Achievements to date External Funding

• Total external funding earned by RINCE 4
  million (to Spring 2002).
• Major sources of this are
• Enterprise Ireland Research Schemes,
• European 5th Framework Collaborative Projects,
• Advanced Technology Research Scheme from
  Enterprise Ireland,
• Health Research Board,
• Marie Curie Development Host Funding (EU),
• Research contracts with industrial partners (ESAT
  Telecom, Ericcson, Parthus, Lucent, etc).

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• Vision Systems Group
• Machine Vision Systems
• Medical Imaging and Visualization
• NeatVision.com - spin off enterprise
• Automation of Painted Slate Inspection
• 3D Imaging / Sensor Fusion
• Colour Texture Analysis
• Mobius A Visually Guided Robotic Mobile Platform
  (RINCE)
• Assistive Image Analysis for Virtual Colonoscopy
• Open Source Medical Image Analysis
• 3-D Modelling for Functional Analysis of Cardiac
  Images

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• Virtual Community Group
• Web Community Systems
• Design For All
• Learning Management Systems (LMS)
• Web based learning, Generalised e-learning
  systems
• Content Management Systems
• User based Web communities
• Device independent rendering (PDA etc)
• ICT Disability e-Accessibility
• Web Accessibility Evaluation/Repair
• Internet with Auditory User Interface (AUI)

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• Visual Media Processing Group (VMPG)
• Digital library demo system - Físchlár - provides
  personalised video retrieval services on TV
  content for 1500 campus users, 24-7
• Current RD activity at convergence of video
  analysis, MPEG-4,
• MPEG-7 and video information retrieval
  technologies
• See huge potential for multimedia information
  retrieval in Biomedical area
• Particularly training
• - as digital media tools replace/supplement
  medical text books
• - as procedures (e.g. surgery) are recorded
  for training
• (and insurance) purposes
• Acoustic analysis of speech signals for screening
  and diagnosis of laryngeal pathology.

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• Physical Optronics Electronics Group
• Analysis modelling of INTEGRATED CIRCUIT
  fabrication and processing
• Stress analysis
• Advanced packaging options
• Novel test instrumentation
• Development of wide-bandgap photonics on Si
  substrates
• Epitaxy, deposition, characterisation
• Simple LEDs and Laser Diodes
• Optronic performance
• Novel blue/UV laser devices for bio-applications,
  high-speed optronics and electronics

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Physical Optronics Electronics Group

• All-optical switching technologies and photonic
  materials for future high-speed optical
  communication systems
• Implementation of broadband access networks using
  hybrid radio/fibre solutions
• Low power, high performance hardware
  architectures for mobile information access
  applications
• Modeling and simulation of interconnects in high
  speed digital circuits for broadband
  communication systems
• Rapid prototyping of IC designs for biomedical
  electronic systems through FPGA

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• Performance Engineering Laboratory
• Any system where network performance issues
  arise.
• Application of theoretical analysis can support
  the understanding or the design of the system.
• Currently three main areas of research
• 1. Multimedia Networking
• 2. Distributed Internet-enabled Systems
• 3. Wireless Systems

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• Switching Systems Group
• Network Traffic Engineering
• Quality of Service (QoS) Routing
• Development of novel QoS routing algorithms
• Netlets
• Development of active network architecture using
  mobile agents
• Deployment of traffic management strategies using
  Netlets architecture
• Analysis and design of multi-terabit, multi-stage
  switching networks

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• SUMMARY STRATEGIC DEVELOPMENT
• Continuation of the original research programme.
• Expansion of this programme through the addition
  of competencies and collaborations.
• Establishment of horizon projects in specific
  core technology areas
• Gen-e-Sys (RINCE/NCSR/NCPST RCSI)
• Biomedical e-content analysis and manipulation.
• Personal Area Networking.
• Bio-electronic systems-on-chip and biocompatible
  materials/device development.