Randy Pausch, a computer engineering lecturer from Carnegie Mellon University has died. He became kown for his Last Lecture wich has been viewed by over 6 million people on video and was turned into a book – The Last Lecture, which is how I came to know him. He was diagnosed with Pancreatic cancer and […]
Presentations on research papers and general structural engineering topics that I’ve made are now available here. There’s also a presentation made to 5th and 6th year second-level students during maths week, October 2007. The presentations are all in PDF format so some animation effects are missing, but such is life.
Sadly Joe O’Donovan, co-founder and Chairman of Rough & O’Donovan Consulting Engineers, passed away at the weekend. From the ROD website: A favourite quote of Joe’s was the epitaph on the tomb of Sir Christopher Wren “lecteur, Si Monumentum Requiris Circumspice” which translates “reader, if you seek his monument, look around”. Joe’s monuments, I’m sure […]
I’ve been updating the site content lately so there is plenty to check out.
At last! My long-threatened revamp to my website is under way. I’m moving the old, crappy, Frontpage-spawned, static, hard-to-update, discouraging website to this shiny new WordPress bloggy-type thingy. It’s really easy to maintain so I’ve no doubt I’ll have all the content up soon that I’ve been threatening to put up. I’m from Dublin, Ireland […]