Talk:Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition
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Most of the winners aren't especially interesting in themselves, but I think there's more content to add about Sarah Flannery. If memory serves, the press got very excited about her cryptographic innovation. Subsequently, other researchers (I think including herself) discovered there were some major flaws in it (such is always the way with cryptography) and fixing those flaws obviated her method's speed advantage. If someone who knows what actually occurred: I think that would make an interesting addition. Thanks. -- Finlay McWalter 17:00, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
- Her project used a different method (involving matrices) than the RSA (which uses the difficulty of factoring large numbers) which was faster than the RSA. Unfortunately the algorithm she developed wasn't secure enough to replace the RSA. As regards most of the winners not being especially interesting in themselves I agree. There isn't really any point in adding to the list indefinitely it would make more sense just to keep the last 6, so in January after the next competition the 1998 winner can be removed and the new winner added. -- Markcollinsx
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- There's no reason to remove the old winners - we should just keep adding onto the list. We have all the popes, all the holy roman emperors, and there's no cost in keeping them all (Wikipedia is not paper). And you never know - one of the old ones might win a Nobel Prize, or horribly murder someone :) -- Finlay McWalter 18:50, 9 Nov 2003 (UTC)
By the way it will be the 40th anniversary of the Esat Young Scientist Exhibition in January; probably cause to expand on article a bit after that exhibition. Markcollinsx 04:20, 10 Nov 2003 (UTC)
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[edit] Improper redirection corrected
Someone redirected "Sarah Flannery" to this article. I can not see any reason for that since the former is a name of someone and this article is on exhibition. Tried to kill the redirect, but it got kind of frustrating figuring how to go around it. Redirction has been corrected.
The same is true for 'David O'Doherty'. Since David O'Doherty is also the name of a comedian (and was nominated for the if.comeddies this year) this redirect needs to be eliminated. I'm not sure how to go about doing it.
[edit] External links broken
The three project summary links do not work-any idea where the content may have gone? John 22:02, 22 February 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Sponsors of exhibition
Should we add a redirection page for Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition? The sponsors have changed quite a bit in the last decade or so - many years ago it was regularly sponsored by Aer Lingus. Autarch 19:52, 29 May 2006 (UTC)
[edit] The name of the article
I think you should change the name of the article to Irish Young Scientist and Technology Exhibition, as Young Scientist competitions are held in many European countries, and of course, there is the European Union Contest for Young Scientists.
