Author Archives: chrisjhorn
Our current iteration of GenAI seems fundamentally deeply flawed.
There is a better way waiting to be discovered and understood. This piece was published in the Irish Times on 25th April 2024. The first British regular public newspaper is generally attributed to Nathaniel Butter in 1622, a London printer. … Continue reading
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Tagged AI, artificial-intelligence, Fake News, GenAI, General AI, generative-ai, LLM, Technology
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Sellafield/Windscale: a showcase of British innovation but…
Sellafield/Windscale has been key to British interests and has had to considerably innovate over the decades. But its lethal legacy causes me to reflect on how we today use our own various technologies and the environmental consequences we are creating … Continue reading
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Tagged Energy, innovation, nuclear, nuclear reprocessing, nuclear-energy, nuclear-power, nuclear-weapons, sellafield, windscale
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Who is going to protect Ireland’s subsea cables?
Valentia island, off the coast of Kerry, has a long association with transatlantic cables, including the weather reports which determined D-Day in June 1944. In October, it will host will be a timely symposium on subsea cable security. This piece … Continue reading
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Tagged cables, europe, great eastern, history, Internet, Ireland, navy, subsea, Technology, telegraphy, valentia
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The end of Science Foundation Ireland
I served on the Board of SFI in its early years at the start of the millennium. Minister Simon Harris, now our “TikTok Taoiseach”, has ruled that it should no longer continue in its present form. This piece was published … Continue reading
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Tagged economics, education, Ireland, policy, politics, research, science, SFI, simon harris
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L4S – improving latency across the internet
This was published by the Irish Times on February 8th last. An unfortunate truth of road improvement schemes is the resulting increased efficiency merely accelerates traffic into the next bottleneck. Many roads alternate clot and flow, shaped just like the … Continue reading
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Tagged 5g, internet latency, l4s, network, networking, Technology
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Huawei’s recovery and Ren Zhengfei
Huawei has made a remarkable recovery since the US clampdown. The founder, Ren Zhengfei, is an an extraordinary entrepreneur. This was published by the Irish Times on January 24th. Starting in 1972, UNIDO (a United Nations agency) hosted a series … Continue reading
Avaticians – the rise of the political avatars
This was my first piece of 2024, published in the Irish Times on January 11th. Since I published it, avaticians are becoming a “thing” in India’s elections, see this Al-Jazeera article from February 20th. — Politicians and leaders have frequently … Continue reading
Nvidia – and its Irish foundations :-)
This was published by the Irish Times on December 28th last. It was interesting to find the Irish links back to the Californian gold rush of the 1850s.. In a frothy market, the shrewd opportunist will sell soap and wands … Continue reading
Drones and the Ukraine war
This was published by the Irish Times on December 14th last. As winter has set in across Ukraine, and after an extreme storm battered the Black Sea region, social media clips and commentators are drawing parallels to the nightmarish trench warfare … Continue reading
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