Science Foundation Ireland have just announced research funding for a team of researchers from DCU and UCD to the tune of 5.6M. The research programme will focus on adaptive information systems and the DCU role involves the Centre for Digital Video Processing, a collaboration between Prof. Alan Smeaton from the School of Computing and colleagues from the School of Electronic Engineering. This is a significant boost to the research profile of the School, the research centre, and the University, and brings the total amount of research funding secured by the CDVP this year, to over 2M (including the CDVP share of this SFI award, an ATRP2003 award for the MediAssist project, and involvement in EU FP6 project aceMedia).