b'Lately, themes such as the emergence of brought to bear on the global sustainability the GCID, and ensuring connectivity to the widerartificial intelligence or augmented and virtual challenge - in the search for balanced solutions innovation ecosystem, the E3 Research Institutereality have received widespread attention and, for a better world.will be a venue for large-scale researchindeed, the School is at the forefront of research programmes especially for those working inin these areas. However, perhaps more E3 will deliver new purpose-built learning collaboration with industry and otherimportantly, given the accelerating pace of spaces for the School in the E3 Foundry, which stakeholders.these developments, the School is also at the will enable an increased emphasis onforefront of considering the wider implications independent learning through project-based Perhaps it doesnt require quite so muchof these technologies for individuals and for our and group work, as well as engagement in foresight now as it did fifty years ago to see thesociety. Members of the School are engaged, for multi-disciplinary projects with and for diverse central role that Computer Science and theexample, in promoting the ethical use of stakeholders such as companies and NGOs.School will play in the development of acomputers or considering the future of inter- sustainable society. Nevertheless, the past 50personal communication as well as the nature Through the E3 research programme our sta years of vision and service have created aof future work and its implications for our and students are engaging in questions ranging unique opportunity for the School to contributeeducational mission.from how technology will enable more to our common future in the next fifty years. sustainable cities in a world in which more thanAs a central part of the Trinitys flagship E3 50% of people will live in urban areas to the(Engineering, Environment and Emerging development of technologies and solutions to Professor Vinny CahillTechnologies) initiative, which will see the promote societal health and well-beingProfessor of Computer Science; former Vice-School grow by up to 40% over the next five President and Dean of Research, Dean of theyears, the School is tackling perhaps the most Building on its tradition of innovation, Faculty of Engineering, Mathematics andimportant challenge of our timesustainability.entrepreneurship and engagement, the Science and Head of the Department ofexpected development of the Grand Canal Computer Science The School will be at the centre of a Innovation District (GCID) being championed by Elected TCD Fellowmultidisciplinary initiative (with colleagues in Trinity will aord the School anotherthe Schools of Engineering and of Natural opportunity to contribute to the development ofSciences) addressing how technology can be Dublin as an innovation centre. At the heart of60'