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Karlin Lillington

Karlin Lillington

Technology Journalist

Karlin is a journalist and columnist with the Irish Times focusing on technology, with a special interest in the political, social, business and cultural aspects of information and communication technologies. She has been a contributor to a wide range of Irish and international publications, including The Guardian, New Scientist, Wired.com, Salon.com, Red Herring, The Scientist and The Sunday Times. She holds a PhD from Trinity College.
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Brook Colangelo, senior vice president and chief information officer at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, pictured at its offices in Dublin. Photograph: Aidan Crawley
Remaking an educational publishing giant

Former White House CIO Brook Colangelo has turned his attention to harnessing technology for education

Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield give a thumbs up after the Russian Soyuz space capsule landed some 150 km southeast of the town of Zhezkazgan in central Kazakhsta. Photograph: Reuters
Chris Hadfield’s use of social media made space seem less alien

I don’t think we – the people of Earth – have felt as connected to, or excited about, a space programme since the ‘Apollo’ moon la(...)

Bright ideas to bring IP into the digital age

Prof Ian Hargreaves’ influential report into the UK’s intellectual property (IP) system has generated much discussion globally(...)

Sequencing a single genome these days means analysing half a terabyte of data – very Big Data indeed
What Big Data can tell you about your genome – and why it matters

Faster computing power means that decoding work on the human genome can now be done in hours

Graphic: Dearbhla Kelly/ITPM. Sources: Peter Sondergaard/Gartner, EMC and IDC
Big data is watching you

Businesses are mining huge volumes of data to find out where we are, what we’re like and what we’re doing. In the first of a serie(...)

Harvesting the songs of nature to plead for its future

University of Limerick computer scientist Mikael Fernström collaborates with humans and bees to make sweet music

A police officer holds a hand-held electronic notebook, in Glasgow, Scotland. The Strathclyde Police were the first force to trial the new integrated computer system. Photograph: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images
Mobile technologies can bring cost savings and efficiency gains to policing

Technologies are opening up new ways of on-the-move working

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