Feast your eyes on a constellation of 21 Irish software superstars
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With the addition of a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in the Internet of Things at WIT, Downes is currently facilitating many of the next generation of software developers and IoT technologies, building on the success he had with FeedHenry. Back in 1997, when the PlayStation reigned supreme, Hugh Reynolds and Steven Collins were computer science researchers at Trinity College Dublin who decided to begin a project that would allow them to recreate crystal glass. All these years later, many of the major gaming titles played today – from Call of Duty to Halo – are working off the latest version of the Havok engine, all originating from Reynolds’ and Collins’ handiwork. Openet, which is Ireland’s largest indigenous technology company, provides software that enables its global mobile phone and cable customers to improve profitability, by commercialising network activity. He is probably most widely recognised as a current judge on RTÉ’s Dragon’s Den but, within software circles, it is another achievement that has brought O’Sullivan attention – he is the person who coined the term ‘cloud computing’.
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