Today’s Google Doodle commemorates UCC’s first professor of Mathematics, George Boole, inventor of Boolean logic, “which inevitably enabled revolutionary thinking in not just logic and math, but also engineering and computer science”. For more on Boole and his legacy, check out UCC’s George Boole site. Meanwhile, I’ve gone and filled out the truth table, with a little help from […]
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Technology Restores an Ancient Archive of Irish Music [Video]
UCC has digitised and published an important archive of Irish traditional music contained on wax cylinders, which languished unheard in its basement for almost 100 years. The problem with wax cylinders is that they are damaged each time you play them, so that for the archive to be preserved it could not be played. But an audio engineer named Henri Chamoux […]