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We are pleased to welcome the following new Fellows, who have recently been admitted to the Institution:
Ciaran McDonnell BSc MSc PhD

Dr. McDonnell is an Irish academic. He took his first degree at University College, Dublin, in 1972. The distinguished academic career that followed, as Researcher and Lecturer at University College, Trinity College, Dublin and since 1983 as Head of Computing at the Dublin Institute of Technology, has not prevented him from also engaging in a variety of research and commercial projects with world-wide applications. He is widely published; to say that his main field is concerned with Image Processing is probably to hugely underestimate Ciaran McDonnell? prodigious energy and talent.
Christopher E. Harnetty BSc(Hons)

Christopher trained as a programmer in the early eighties and has since occupied a variety of contract and permanent positions as Software Consultant, Analyst/Programmer and Project Manager. He has mainly worked in the Banking and Financial sectors, for example with the Bank of England, BACS, Customs and Excise, Inland Revenue and P&O Properties.

His PC skills are augmented by capabilities in RDBMS and Mainframes. Typical applications have included Financial Control and Regulatory Reporting, Electronic Funds Transfer, and Share Registration. Chris is currently employed by Citibank as Domain Architect for the European Architecture Group.