THE DEVELOPMENT OF HIGH SPEED SECURITY HARDWARE ARCHITECTURES MAKES BELFAST WOMAN FEMALE INVENTOR OF THE YEAR 2007

Dr Maire McLoone, inventor of a product that enhances security mechanisms to protect the public from cyber criminals, such as hackers and identifies thieves, beat off strong competition from other contenders to win the top prize in the British Female Inventors & Innovators Awards 2007 on Tuesday 24 April 2007.In the event at the Café Royal, London, the inventor triumphed with her innovation from Institute of electronics, communications and information technology (ECIT), Queen’s University, Belfast. The research work into high speed security architectures was conducted solely by Dr McLoone, who holds a prestigious UK Royal Academy of Engineering research fellowship at ECIT. Her product required thorough background research which demonstrated the need for real-time data security. Dr McLoone succeeded in developing high-speed security architectures providing a potential solution of real-security.

West Yorkshire, innovator Emily Cummins was named the Innovator of the Year 2007 for her Solar Evaporation Refrigerator. The refrigerator provides an opportunity to improve life for people in the 3rd world as they will be in a position to store food for much longer than they can now. 19 year old, Emily Cummins who is currently a student of Leeds University explained that developing a product for a real life situation has provided her with an opportunity that many will never have and as she had the chance to visit South Africa she decided to take it and keep trying to develop her product until she reaches her goal of commercial production. The event, now in its ninth successful year, is organised by the Global Women Inventors & Innovators Network (GWIIN) with support from Equalitec – an european part-funded project by the European Social Fund, the Department of Trade and Industry (DTI), London Metropolitan University, UK Trade & Investment, National Physics Laboratory, London Remade and Business Link London and many more organisations.

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