A team led by Matrix panellist Jim McLaughlin has joined forces with a Silicon Valley Medtech company in a bid to create a real life Tricorder - the fictional hand held device featured in Star Trek. The local team, called zensor, and the US team, Scanadu, were named as two of ten [...]
At MATRIX we recognise the strong relationship between science and the arts - indeed, we hold an annual poetry competition on a scientific theme. So we were delighted when Yahoo's technology editor Jason O. Gilbert published a witty poem made up entirely by the titles of various panels from this year's [...]
The winners of the 2014 MATRIX Poetry Competition were announced on Thursday 16th October in the Linenhall Library, Belfast, by Professor Iggy McGovern, Professor of Physics at Trinity College Dublin and award winning poet. This year there were two main categories in the competition – one for people with a [...]
The winner of the MATRIX Poetry Competition was announced on Saturday evening by poet laureate Carol Ann Duffy. David Crozier, Technical Marketing Manager at Queen’s University Belfast’s ECIT Institute based at the Northern Ireland Science Park was revealed as the winner for his poem entitled The Dock. Runner up was [...]
We have launched the first MATRIX Poetry Competition to highlight the links between science and the arts. Open to scientists, technicians, engineers and mathematician, the competition is to write a poem of 14 lines or less, excluding the title. It can be profound or humorous, about the big issues or the [...]