DCU School of Computing will hold its annual Final Year Project Display & Champagne Breakfast at 8am on Friday 26th May 2006 in Dublin City University.  Proceedings will be opened by Mr. Noel Ahern, T.D., Minister for Housing and Urban Renewal. Students of the B.Sc. in Computer Applications and the B.Sc. in Applied Computational Linguistics will give open demonstrations of their final year projects after the champagne reception. These demonstrations provide an opportunity for the industrial and business communities to view the high standard and broad range of development work carried out by students of these programmes and to discuss their work with the students.

A full listing of the projects can be found in the Final Year Project Display Booklet.

If you are interested in attending this event please contact Lorraine Murphy at: Tel: (01) 700 8608 or Email: for an invitation.

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While some undergraduates head for summer vacations, 19 undergraduate students from France, the United States, and Ireland will be participating in a twelve-week summer research program beginning June 6th.

Full details...

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It is vital that the workforce of tomorrow are made aware of the importance of Data and Information Quality. Issues, and thanks to the Irish IQ Network and Irish students, this awareness has been raised across the campus of Dublin City University.

The Student IQ Network, the first of its kind, has been setup by School of Computing final year students Lucy Coleman and Ronnie Mirza, and with the encouragement of Dr. Markus Helfert (DCU - School of Computing), they aim to make students understand the importance of data and information quality not only in the workplace, but also in everyday life.

The main objective of this 'network' is to create a link between the student members and companies who can provide support, advice, and experience relating to data quality issues. Guest Speakers are invited to monthly meetings where current issues, such as the introduction of postcodes in Ireland, are discussed.

More details: http://www.dcu.ie/news/2006/mar/s0306m.shtml

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

Date: Tuesday, March 28th 2006
Time: 6:00pm - 8:30pm
Venue: Research and Engineering Centre, Dublin City University, Dublin 9

Talks on all of our programmes will take place at 6.30pm and 7.30pm.

Complementary refreshments and parking will be available.

For further details, tel: +353 (0)1 700 8608 or +353 (0)1 700 7641

Directions to DCU

Programmes offered by DCU Faculty of Engineering and Computing

http://www.dcu.ie/engineering_and_computing/openevening/

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School of Computing co-sponsors the ODCSSS Summer School with up to 34 Summer internships available for undergraduate students. Odysseus (ODCSSS) is the Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School in Ireland. It is a three-year collaborative summer school between the School of Computer Science & Informatics at University College Dublin and the School of Computing at Dublin City University and supported by Adaptive Information Cluster.

An Odysseus internship affords students an opportunity to work on a novel research project with experienced research faculty in top-class research environments, sharing research activities over two locations.

More details: http://www.odcsss.ie/

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The School of Computing is to launch a new one-year full-time European M.Sc. in Business Informatics in September 2006. This innovative programme will equip graduates of computer science or comparable disciplines with an in-depth understanding of the business applications of information and communications technology (ICT), and how it interacts with business strategy, both within an Irish and a European context.

More details: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/europeanmbi

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In a rare outsourcing of research, Google has chosen DCU's Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) lead by Professor Alan Smeaton of the School of Computing and Dr. Noel O'Connor of the School of Electronic Engineering to take part in a project with two American universities, which is part of Google's quest to make all information in the world searchable. This research could make invaluable manuscripts and rare historical documents - like the Book of Kells, or George Washington's personal diaries - available and searchable on the web for scholars and interested people worldwide.

Read the full article here.

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The IQ Network Ireland in conjunction with DCU School of Computing, the Irish Computer Society and the International Association for Information and Data Quality invites delegates from enterprises, industry, academia and research to attend the third Information Quality Forum in the Helix, Dublin City University on 23rd of February 2006 to explore and discuss some of the key concepts and ideas in improving information quality.

Further Information and registration at:
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/research/dataquality/iqireland/

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The School of Computing at Dublin City University is currently running a series of one-week courses for Transition Year students from 15 North Dublin schools. This online, self-paced web design course, which is in its second year, allows students to develop practical computing skills and gain certification from the School of Computing for their work.

Danny Gallagher from St. Declan's College in Cabra, is the 1000th student to participate in Compute TY. Below are some of his impressions of the course:
"The whole of 4th year in my school is doing this course. We were told about the course beforehand and I think the school is doing it because its supposed to be beneficial. I didn't really know much about computers. I don't really use a computer at home. Me mam was saying it's good to learn about them because people get paid a lot of money to do it. The course is easy enough. Once you get your head around the commands. It shows you on Moodle how to use the commands. Once you figure out how to use Moodle it's easier. I used to come out here to DCU to skateboard when I was younger. I find it a lot easier here than in secondary school. It's more relaxed and a lot less strict. You can do what you want when you want. I find it a lot easier that way. The web site is on boxing legends. I box myself. I'm 63 kilos. It's goes 54, 57, 60, 63. There's names like Lightweight, Featherweight, Bantantamweight, Super Bantamweight. I'm only starting. I don't do competitions yet. I'd like to do the computer again. You get well paid for it. Bloke here yesterday as saying you could get €1,500 for just doing a web site, for two days work. It's good work to get into. The more you do it the better you get at it I'd say."

More information on the ComputeTY course can be found here.

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Research carried out by School of Computing lecturers Charlie Daly and Jane Horgan has found that in the case of software plagiarism, crime doesn't pay!

A way of detecting software plagiarism which uses spaces and tabs instead of code comparisons has found 36% of computing students at Dublin City University were copying programs from fellow undergraduates. However, the copiers got an average mark of 37%. The people they copied from got an average of 58%, and those who were not involved in any way got 51%.

Read the full article the appeared in ComputerWeekly.com

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