John McCanny Distinguished Lecture

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John McCanny Distinguished Lecture

By Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering

Date and time

Tue, 10 Jun 2014 16:30 - 18:00 GMT+1

Location

Building 67, Nightingale Lecture Theatre (Room 1027)

University of Southampton Highfield Campus SO17 1BJ United Kingdom

Description

You are warmly invited to attend this Faculty of Physical Sciences and Engineering Distinguished Lecture on Successful translation of Academic Research into wider Economic Impact:

A nation or a region’s ability to remain competitive in a global economy is highly dependent on its ability to innovate and create new products and new services. A key aspect of this is the quality of its research. However, what is also critical is the environment and mechanisms to rapidly translate the outcomes of this research into wider economic impact and benefit. These issues and the challenges are now high on the agenda of many modern economies. This Lecture will give an overview of how these challenges are being addressed at Queen’s University Belfast through its Institute of Electronics, Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), the research flagship for the Northern Ireland Science Park (NISP).

Professor John McCanny, FREng, FRS, FIEEE, is the Director of The Institute of Electronics Communications and Information Technology (ECIT), Queen’s University Belfast, Northern Ireland Science Park. He is an international authority on special purpose silicon architectures for Digital Signal and Video Processing and Cryptography. His many honours and awards include a CBE, the IET’s Faraday medal and the Royal Irish Academy’s Cunningham medal. He also led the initiative that created the £30M EPSRC/TSB Innovation and Knowledge Centre for Secure Information Technology (CSIT), which is based at ECIT.

The lecture will start at 17.00 with refreshments served from 16.30. A drinks reception will follow the lecture at 18.00. All are welcome but please register beforehand. For more information, including a full summary of the lecture, please visit http://www.fpse.soton.ac.uk/news/4473.

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