Limerick student wins young scientist award

A Limerick student who designed a new computer programming language tonight won the Esat BT Young Scientist of the Year.

Fri, 14 Jan, 2005 - 18:51

A Limerick student who designed a new computer programming language tonight won the Esat BT Young Scientist of the Year.

Patrick Collison, 16, of Castletroy College beat off a record number of entries in the 2005 competition with his winning project, “CROMA: a new dialect of LISP”.

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Courts Heathrow Place: Limerick Place: Dublin’s RDS Place: Ireland Place: Moscow Person: Patrick Collison Person: President Mary McAleese Person: Angela Keegan Person: Patrick Event: European Union Contest for Young Scientists Event: Young Scientist exhibition Organisation: Castletroy College

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