Hirst Associates Limited

27/01/2025

15 years ago!

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31/12/2024

Hoping 2025 is happy and healthy for you all

31/10/2023

Why IT needs to be in the driver’s seat

Navigating the GenAI revolution necessitates IT's role in driving innovation and security.

31/07/2023

Fascinating

Last year, Monash University scientists created the "DishBrain" – a semi-biological computer chip with some 800,000 human and mouse brain cells lab-grown into its electrodes. Demonstrating something like sentience, it learned to play Pong within five minutes.

25/07/2023

It's Rosalind Franklin's birthday! 🎉Franklin – a pioneering chemist, humanist, and a true hero of ours – was born on this day 1920. Today we celebrate her life, work, and legacy, and each year we hold a special lecture in her name.❤️

20/06/2023

Fascinating 🧐

Studying the brief and tiny quantum effects that drive living systems could one day lead to new approaches to treatments and technologies.

06/05/2023

05/05/2023

Today (5th May) is World Health Organisation (WHO) World Hand Hygiene Day. Thorough handwashing is key to preventing the spread of lots of viruses, including COVID-19 and Norovirus, and can ultimately save lives. You may be aware there is a new variant of COVID-19, Arcturus. This variant is thought to be the most transmissible to date, so we cannot afford to let our guard down.

01/05/2023

https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/1/23706311/hinton-godfather-of-ai-threats-fears-warnings

Geoffrey Hinton who won the ‘Nobel Prize of computing’ for his trailblazing work on neural networks is now free to speak about the risks of AI.

18/04/2023

Despite his advanced age and declining health, Einstein remained active in the field of physics up until his final moments.

On the day of his passing, Einstein was working on a new paper that aimed to unify the laws of physics into a single, elegant theory. This had been the focus of much of his research during the later years of his life, and he was deeply invested in the project.

Einstein's death was a great loss to the scientific community and to the world as a whole. His legacy lives on, however, in the countless scientists and researchers who continue to build on his work and explore the mysteries of the universe.