On Friday, May 27th 2005, Minister Noel Ahern, T.D. officially opened the final year project display of the School of Computing's graduating classes. Over 50 representatives from a range of leading computing employers also attended the display.

Speaking at the champagne breakfast which preceded the display, Minister Noel Ahern, T.D., who formally opened the event, commended the students on the quality of their work. He also commented on the remarkable range of subject areas addressed by the projects, which reflected the strong dependence of every aspect of industry and society on computing technology, and hence the immense variety of employment opportunities available to graduates of computing studies.

The more than 150 projects displayed ranged from the very old - investigating if the Book of Leinster was the work of just one or of many scribes, to the very latest - editing video images on mobile phones. For those interested in flying, there was a helicopter simulation, while another project 'PoachProof' aimed to detect plagiarism. In the education area, there was a tool to assist the learning of Chinese, while the controversial topic of e-voting also featured. The range of computing skills evident was impressive also, with many students employing the latest techniques, technologies and programming languages in their work.

Download a copy of the projects booklet (pdf)

Students Kevin O'Meara and Brendan Murphy with Minister Noel Ahern, T.D. at the School of Computing's final year project display.

The Minister spoke with many students about their projects, including Nadine Redmond, who developed a University Portal.

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The Faculty of Engineering and Computing at DCU invites you to its postgraduate open evening, where visitors can find out all they need to know about the range of taught and research postgraduate programmes on offer in the School of Computing, the School of Electronic Engineering, and the School of Mechanical Engineering.

Lecturers, researchers, current students, and recent graduates will be present to give you a real insight into our innovative taught and research programmes.

The School of Computing's Dr. Andy Way together with Dan Melamed (NYU), Dekai Wu (HKUST) and Steve Clark (Oxford) are running a Workshop on Statistical Machine Translation by Parsing in July-August 2005. This workshop is part of the prestigious CLSP workshop series at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore that has been taking place since 1999. A School of Computing postgraduate student Declan Groves is also on the team.

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DCU School of Computing provides a lively, supportive environment for research in computing. The School has over 70 research students and a wide range of funded projects at national and international level.

The School is offering a number of research scholarships to outstanding graduates under its School Scholarship scheme, and is currently inviting applications. The scholarships support Ph.D. research for three years and include:

• Stipend of up to 12,700 per annum
• Full fees for E.U. students
• Fully equipped personal workspace
• Opportunities to travel to international conferences

For full details, see our Research Vacancies webpage.

From Monday 28 February - Saturday 5 March RedBrick, in association with MPS, Fotosoc and Gamessoc are hosting "Tech Week" in DCU.

The aim is to bring a technical flavour to the campus for its duration and to showcase the talents of our own faculty members, current and former students and industry figures. The opening speech will be given by Michael Ryan, head of the School of Computer Applications.

There are guest speakers ranging from representatives of various departments throughout the college to entrepreneurs in the Irish market. Other highlights include heated debates, gaming tournaments, workshops and competitions. On Saturday Redbrick presents an event entirely new to Ireland, wavehunt. Details available from http://wavehunt.redbrick.dcu.ie

Please come along and sample the wide range of technical innovation and skill available here in DCU. A full list of events is available at http://www.redbrick.dcu.ie

Dr. Markus Helfert has co-edited a special issue on information quality in the international peer-reviewed journal "Studies in Communication Sciences". The issue dedicates its thematic focus to the topic of information quality and examines the fitness for use of information from three different perspectives: the organizational, technological, and legal viewpoint.

You can find the abstracts of the articles (and a free download of one article) at http://www.scoms.ch/current_issue/fullpapers.asp

A PDF version is also available here.

The School of Computing's Dr. Markus Helfert is co-organising the Second International Workshop on Data and Information Quality in conjunction with CAiSE*05 - The 17th Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering (14 June 2005, Porto, Portugal).

The international workshop on data and information quality seeks submissions describing advanced ideas and preliminary results, including applied and basic research papers, as well as case studies and experiences that address various aspects of data and information quality. Deadline for papers (received) is February 18th, 2005.

For more information, see their website:
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/DIQ/

Over 500 Transition Year students from 16 North Dublin schools are sampling DCU life this month, with the launch of the School of Computing's ComputeTY web design and development course. This online, self-pacing course allows Transition Year students to develop practical computing skills and gain certification from the School of Computing for their work. The course runs until early February, with each student attending DCU for one week. With industry sources expressing concern that too few students are currently opting for computing at Third Level, the ComputeTY course aims to expose students to a positive experience of computing and thereby encourage them to consider IT as an attractive career option. The initiative also aims to strengthen DCU's links with the local community.

2005's ComputeTY websites are now available for viewing here.

Transition Year students taking part in the ComputeTY web design and development course