Seedlings of CS & Linguistics Fusion in TCD

And the computer science used our courses, and there was a linguistics department languages, you could do French or German or Irish. And it was a difficult course and small numbers of students. It was actually suggested by Barbara Wright, I don’t know whether she mentioned it when she spoke to you or not. And then, we were asked to take on 120 extra students. And I didn’t want to ruin the moderatorship by making it too big. So, we started a new course in ICT, information and communications technology, which we thought was the buzzword at the time. And we got a lot of new staff on that. And then the dotcom bubble came and burst, and the numbers started to drop.