b'2000 Y2K came and went without the bug! Did you know? 2000 Dot.com bubble burst having immediateimpactIn the year 2000, the Trinity Ball line-up included:2001 Professor Jane Grimson appointed TCDTindersticks, with the Wannadies, Elastica and JJ72, TrevorVice ProvostNelson of MTVs The Lick, Steve G of Brown Sugar, Bass2003 Professor John G Byrne retires, aged 70Odyssey, Nitin Sawnhey and To Rococco Rotyears2006 Student recruitment proactivelyResearch Groups establishedaddressed by the School to reverse2002Applied Information Systems Group (AISG) concerning declining applications Funded by EU, IDA and IS programmes; focused on IS/IT2007 Bridge2College Programme begins Policy, Strategy and Planning, Management of IS2008 Evening BSc in Computer ScienceDevelopment, Implementation and Operation, Digitalcloses its doors Simulation Scenario based Learning Techniques & Tools2009 Hal Varian, Chief Economist at Google states "I keep saying the sexy job in the2004 Centre for Telecommunications Value-Chainnext ten years will be statisticians. Research (CTVR)2009 Research disciplines structureA multi-institution and multi-disciplinary centre focused onestablished wireless and optical networks; main research programmeComputer Systems funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI)Information SystemsIntelligent systems 2006Graphics, Vision and Visualization group (GV2)Software Systems Formed by the merger of two long-standing research groups,Statistics the Computer Vision and Robotics (CVRG) and the ImageSynthesis (ISG) in response to the increasing overlapbetween computer graphics and computer vision23'