DCU School of Computing held its annual Final Year Project Display & Champagne Breakfast at 8am on Monday 26th May 2008 at Dublin City University. The proceedings were opened by the former Taoiseach, Mr Bertie Ahern, TD. The Project Booklet is available to view here.

Fourth year students of DCU's B.Sc. in Computer Applications degree gave open demonstrations of their final year projects following the breakfast reception. The event provided an excellent opportunity for IT professionals and potential employers to view the high standard and broad range of development work carried out by the more than seventy graduating students of Ireland's largest computing degree programme.

Final year student Peter Denham with Bertie Ahern, T.D, showing his project entitled 'Bumper2Bumper'

The solutions developed by students cover a wide spectrum of application areas. These include artificial intelligence, embedded systems, information management, digital signal processing, e-commerce, educational applications, gaming, graphics, Internet, mobile and wireless applications, multimedia, natural language processing, network applications and security.

Graham Healy with Bertie Ahern T.D, showing his project entitled 'A Framework for Location-Based Augmented Reality Applications'

The 2008 project handbook shows the calibre and scope of projects for this year. Reviewing this booklet allows you to earmark the projects in which you are particularly interested and if you wish to contact any of the students, please contact Julie Ann Ennis (details below) and she will alert the student/s to your interest. The Champagne Breakfast was held in the Helix and the Project Display was in the School of Computing, (see campus map) in the computing labs L1.14 and L1.25 (see building layout).

For parking, please park at the multi-storey car park as indicated on the campus map. By taxi, please drive in the Collins Avenue Entrance and you can be set down opposite the Helix building.

If you are interested in attending this event next year, please contact Julie Ann Ennis for an invitation at: (01) 700 5237 or .

A selection of videos taken on the day of the Final Year Project Display, 2008:

• Former Taoiseach, Mr Bertie Ahern, TD opens Champagne Breakfast at DCU

• 'TEF - Guitar Effects Suite and Learning Tool', by Conor Mullen & Brendan Bambury

• 'Bumper2Bumper' by Peter Denham

• 'Baby Monitoring System' by Robert Campion

• 'A Framework for Location-Based Augmented Reality Applications' by Graham Healy & Daniel Kersten

• 'LifeMap' by Stephen Mc Gowan

We would also like to thank our sponsors for the event, Fidelity Investments, GIFT, ComputerScope, Ericsson, the Centre for Software Engineering at DCU and Invent.