The annual School of Computing Champagne Breakfast took place on 28th May in the School of
Computing, and was a great success. Guest speakers at the event included Professor Anne Scott
(Deputy President of DCU), and Dr. Stephen Blott (Head of Computing School).
The speakers welcomed
industry members during the breakfast, and invited them to tour the Final Year project displays in
the labs. The Final Year students had obviously worked hard on their business presentation skills
and there were some truly impressive projects on display. There has been great feedback from students
and industry attendees alike, and we expect several students will hear directly from industry members
over the next few months.
For more information on this event, please contact
School of Computing Champagne Breakfast (27th May '09)
The Annual School of Computing Champagne Breakfast will take place this Thursday,
28th May in the Computing Building. The breakfast will take place at 8am, followed by
a tour of the Fourth Year Final Project displays from 9am - 10.30am.
For more information on this event, please contact
Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) 2009 Roadshow (13th May '09)
The Irish Centre for High-End Computing (ICHEC) will be visiting Dublin City
University on the 2nd June 2009 as part of its 2009 annual Roadshow.
These meetings are organised to provide the ICHEC with an opportunity to
meet researchers across the country and bring them up to date with the latest
developments concerning High-Performance Computing service provision in Ireland,
and more specifically, how ICHEC can assist researchers in meeting their
requirements (in terms of storage and compute resources, and also in terms
of support and consultancy).
First ever All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) (27th April '09)
The Centre for Next Generation Localisation (Education and Outreach
Programme) is running the first ever Linguistics Olympiad held in Ireland
today, 27th April 2009 in the Venue in the Hub in DCU.
DCU President, Professor Ferdinand von Prondzynski, opening the first ever
All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO)
Many disciplines such as science, maths, creative writing and music run
competitions to find the most promising young students. Some take the form
of projects or experiments, while others involve composition or performance.
A LINGUISTICS OLYMPIAD involves face-to-face competition where teams or
individuals have to use their ingenuity, creativity and skill to solve
language-related problems.
CNGL are running both an individual competition
and team competition in conjunction with the International Linguistics
Olympiad (ILO).
The aim is to select an individual and a team (four students
15-17 years old and one sub) to represent Ireland at the International
Linguistics Olympiad (ILO) in Poland in Wroclaw, Poland 26-31 July 2009.
RTE report on Computing Job Vacancies (23rd April '09)
RTE's Laura Fletcher reports for RTE News on the challenges facing computing
employers and third-level computing courses in Ireland; featuring DCU, IT Tallaght,
Google Ireland and Paddy Power; 23rd April, 2009
James May of Top Gear visits DCU's School of Computing (23rd March '09)
Last year James May of Top Gear came to DCU's School of Computing to talk to Prof. Alan
Smeaton about CDVP's SenseCam project, as part of his Big Ideas series..
Sci-Sym as University Designated Reseach Centre (UDRC) (24th February '09)
Members of Sci-Sym Center
The Centre for Scientific Computing & Complex Systems Modelling (SCI-SYM) is a centre
of excellence for researchers working in high performance computing (HPC) applied to
computational and mathematical models for complex systems in engineering, natural and
applied sciences. It has been created in 2007.
Scientific Computing and Complex Systems explores models of the natural and artificial
world, through high performance computer solutions of problems, which, due to their
complexity, are intractable by conventional methods such as experimental, mathematical or
semi-analytical methods alone. Complex systems arise in a variety of fields, e.g. physics,
biology, chemistry, eco- and other hybrid sciences, finance, socio-economic phenomena, and
others and are truly interdisciplinary. In some cases, a formal model may be proposed and
investigated; in others large amounts of data may be mined and empirically analysed or
computational models may be designed and tested against available data.
To read a more detailed presentation of the Sci-Sym center, download this
pdf presentation
or visit their new website at sci-sym.dcu.ie
The Centre for Digital Video Processing
has one PhD position available researching information importance for extreme precision
recommendation of content from large multimedia archives, with a starting date of early
2009.
This research is carried out as part of the iAd project (iAd -
http://www.iad-centre.no/), which is a
new collaboration with norwegian partners (incl. FAST/Microsoft), Dublin City University and
Cornell University. It is anticipated that the PhD candidate will spend a number of months at
the University of Tromso
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troms%C3%B8)
during the course of the PhD research. In addition, there will be many opportunties for the
student to interact with the CDVP researchers and with the iAd Project team in Norway and
Cornell University.
School of Computing Professor Publishes Book (18th December '08)
Congratulations are in order to Professor Jane Horgan of The School of Computing in DCU,
whose book entitled "Probability with R: an Introduction with Computer Science Applications"
has just been published. The book covers a course in probability which doubles as an introduction
to the programming language R.
Professor Horgan presents a copy of her book to CA3 students, Phillip Fox and Michael Dever, who won
the prizes for best student contribution at the book's development stage
Promoting a simulation- and experimentation-driven methodology, this book highlights the
relationship between probability and computing. With its accessible and hands-on approach,
Probability with R is an ideal book for students in computer science and engineering who require
an introduction to probability, or who simply want to learn R. It also serves as a valuable reference
for computing professionals who would like to further understand the relevance of probability to
their disciplines.
Jane M. Horgan is Associate Professor in Statistics in the School of Computing at Dublin City
University in Ireland. A Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians, Dr. Horgan has published extensively
in the areas of statistical sampling and estimation. Her research interests include applications to
financial auditing and to rare incidence skewed populations. "Probability with R: an Introduction with
Computer Science Applications" is published by John Wiley & Sons.
The annual School of Computing Champagne Breakfast took place on 28th May in the School of
Computing, and was a great success. Guest speakers at the event included Professor Anne Scott
(Deputy President of DCU), and Dr. Stephen Blott (Head of Computing School).
The Annual School of Computing Champagne Breakfast will take place this Thursday,
28th May in the Computing Building. The breakfast will take place at 8am, followed by
a tour of the Fourth Year Final Project displays from 9am - 10.30am.
