The School of Computing's Dr. Andy Way has just received a grant of EUR 1500 from the DCU OVPR under their International Visitors Programme to have one of the leading experts on Speech and Language Processing, Prof. Hermann Ney of RWTH Aachen visit us, probably in November 2006 and April 2007.

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Mr Rostislav Markov - student from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg - has won the award for best submission to the International Business Informatics Challenge 2006. His submission entitled "Economical Impact of IT Investments in the Public Sector: The Case of Local Electronic Government" contributes to the evaluation of the economical impact of public information technology investments. His research presents an evaluation conducted over a period of one year of investments in electronic government at a local authority in Germany.

All submitted full papers to the International Business Informatics Challenge were reviewed by an international committee. Mr Markov's contribution was selected as best submission considering selection criteria such as relevance for Business Informatics, importance of topic, originality of work, and presentation and clarity and relevance for practice. The International Business Informatics Challenge is organised in relation to the launch of DCU's new European MSc in Business Informatics.

Business Informatics Workshop on 18th of September

Further details about the European MSc in Business Informatics at: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/europeanmbi

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Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, advances the state-of-the-art in software engineering for specific domains, as is initially focussed on the automotive sector. Lero is a partnership of industry and academic researchers from UL, TCD, UCD and DCU. Lero is supported by Science Foundation Ireland.

Lero is offering a funded studentship in the area of design methodologies for hybrid systems based in the School of Computing, DCU. This project addresses the specification, design and verification of embedded software systems in environments with continuous dynamics. Hybrid systems are characterised by both discrete and continuous state changes. These hybrid systems, and hence their software components, may also have to meet hard and soft timing constraints. The goal of the project is to develop a design methodology which will assist the user in developing a specification that not only captures the behaviour of the embedded software but also captures a description of the continuous dynamics of the environment being controlled by the software. Further details can be found by clicking here or emailing Dr. David Sinclair at

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Ms Stefka Dzhumalieva  from the University of Veliko Tarnovo, Bulgaria, has won a Scholarship for the DCU's new European MSc in Business Informatics. The Scholarship is awarded from the School of Computing to the best applicant for the European MSc in Business Informatics, who has shown strong potential and ability to excel in this new study programme. Stefka was short listed by the evaluation panel and interviewed during the CompSysTech06 conference in Veliko Tarnovo

Stefka is a graduate in Informatics  from the University of Veliko Tarnovo and has studied as an Erasmus exchange student at the Czech University in Prague.

Further details about the European MSc in Business Informatics at: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/europeanmbi

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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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