17-04-2008 - ChangingWorlds’ Chief Scientist Leads CLARITY – A New Ground Breaking  

Research Centre

Dublin, Ireland, Thursday, April 17th 2008

 

ChangingWorlds, global expert in personalization & subscriber intelligence techniques for the Mobile Internet, is proud to announce its involvement with the newly established innovation group ‘CLARITY’ - a new Science Foundation Ireland Centre for Science, Engineering and Technology (CSET) which was officially launched by Mr. Micheál Martin, T.D, Minister for Enterprise Trade and Employment this week. This ground breaking research centre will focus on the so-called 'Sensor Web', which captures the intersection between two important research areas - Adaptive Sensing and Information Discovery.

 

ChangingWorlds’ Chief Scientist & Co-Founder, Professor Barry Smyth is the CLARITY CSET Director. The new cutting-edge CLARITY CSET is a partnership between University College Dublin and Dublin City University, supported by research at the Tyndall National Institute (TNI) Cork. In total, over 90 highly skilled personnel will be working to deliver the CLARITY research programme.

 

In addition, CLARITY will collaborate with leading multinationals and SMEs including: IBM, Vodafone, Ericsson, Foster-Miller, ChangingWorlds, Fidelity Investments and Critical Path, as well as national agencies, such as the Environmental Protection Agency, the Marine Institute and the National Museum of Ireland.

 

The core aim of this innovative research centre is 'bringing information to life'. The research will investigate the integration of sensor data from the physical world with sophisticated information processing and artificial intelligence techniques from computer science. CLARITY aims to develop systems that can sense, process and analyse what is happening in the real world and respond in an appropriate manner.

 

Speaking today, ChangingWorlds’ CEO David Moran said “ChangingWorlds has a strong commitment to innovation and it plays a constant role in our product development initiatives. As a company that stemmed from the commercialization of academic research into personalization technologies for mobile data, we strongly endorse the development of university led research and innovation groups. Our involvement in the new innovation group CLARITY ensures that ChangingWorlds continues to carve the path for innovative new information technologies of critical importance to Ireland's future industry base.”

 

Commenting on his role as Director of CLARITY, Professor Barry Smyth, Chief Scientist for ChangingWorlds said “Through my work with ChangingWorlds, I have seen a company grow from the roots of award winning academic research into a very successful & profitable international company that is recognized as the global expert for Mobile Internet personalization and has a worldwide customer base. CLARITY is a fantastic initiative to develop more research performing companies with a sharper focus on the commercialization of that research.”

Also commenting on the launch of the CLARITY group, Professor Frank Gannon, Director General of Science Foundation Ireland said "All SFI CSETs have been established to create highly competitive academic research linking academia and industry as part of our effort to create and sustain a lasting indigenous research base. Expectations are high for CLARITY and I am confident they will be met under the distinguished leadership of Professor Barry Smyth whose track record with ChangingWorlds is certainly a cause for optimism."

 

Over the next five years, total investment in CLARITY will amount to €16.4 million, of which Science Foundation Ireland through the CSET programme will contribute €11.8 million. CLARITY's primary industry partners will make a significant contribution collectively of over €4.6 million by contributing personnel, funding, equipment, infrastructure and services.

 

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About ChangingWorlds

 

ChangingWorlds is the market-leading provider of Mobile Data Personalization and Mobile Internet products to the mobile industry. Based on advanced artificial intelligence technology, the company’s ClixSmart™ Intelligent Portal platform offers a personalized content discovery solution that enhances content relevance and optimizes the user experience of the Mobile Internet, resulting in greater ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) for the mobile operator. Results from implementations of the ClixSmart Intelligent Portal Platform have shown an increase of Mobile Internet ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) and Mobile Internet traffic by 20% - 30%.

 

Proven in market as a high-performance, scalable and carrier-grade Mobile Internet solution, ClixSmart is used by over 50 mobile operators worldwide including the Vodafone Global Group, O2 UK & O2 Germany, the TeliaSonera Group, T-Mobile Austria, Celcom Malaysia and CSL Hong Kong. ChangingWorlds was founded in 1999 and is privately owned. The company now employs over one 120 highly qualified staff in Ireland (Dublin), Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur) and USA (San Francisco).

 

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