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Winners of M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce Practicums 2003
This year, 40 students of the M.Sc. in Electronic Commerce 2002/3
class, presented their practicum
projects (reports accessible only within School of Computing)
in a series of presentations on 27th August 2003. The practicum projects
are team-based projects, carried out during the Summer period by groups
of students on the course, who build a prototype e-commerce system
to solve a real-world problem or to exploit a real-world opportunity.
Such practicum projects often attract the attention of industry or
investors and some have gone on to set up companies based on their
practicum work. This year's prize for best all-round practicum went
to Niamh Fahy, Louise Doyle, Enrique Costoya Blasco and Cenk Kuzucu
for their practicum entitled "Commercial Applications of CEOLAIRE
Technology". In this work the students took the work of post-doctoral
researcher Dr. Thomas Sodring who has developed a music retrieval
system based on melody retrieval at DCU, and who has developed a prototype
system for this to perform mobile phone ring-tone retrieval. The practicum
project explored the commercial applications of this system and developed
an application for a Nokia mobile handset to allow melody-based retrieval
of a ring-tone.
Picture shows Prof. Alan Smeaton (School of Computing), Enrique Costoya
Blasco, Louise Doyle, Niamh Fahy, and Mr. Malcolm Brady (DCU Business School)
missing from the picture is Cenk Kuzucu)
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