Big Increase in Demand for Computing Places

Posted Fri, 15/07/2011 - 12:29 by gconway
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There has been some noise in the media recently about a short-fall in skilled Computing graduates. Supply has fallen behind demand, and the IT industry seems to be immune to the recession. As a consequence we in DCU have noticed an increase in demand for places on our Computing programs. As the graph illustrates the pressure on places for our undergraduate degree programs seems to be climbing back up to near its peak as it was before the infamous dot-com bust. This demand has accelerated recently with a very noticeable late surge in response to the CAO change-of-mind process this year.

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Best paper award for Software Process Research

Posted Mon, 04/07/2011 - 11:31 by roconnor
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Paul Clarke (Lero funded  PhD researcher) and Dr. Rory O'Connor won the best Paper award at 18th European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI 2011) in Denmark last week.

The award was for their  paper titled "The Meaning of Success for Software SMEs: An Holistic Scorecard Based Approach". As part of the award, they are asked to present this work at the 23rd Quality Management Conference in the USA next year.

Workshop on Semantic Search over the Web (SSW 2011)

Posted Mon, 27/06/2011 - 12:09 by gconway

SSW 2011As part of the 23rd International Conference on Advanced Information Systems Engineering, CAiSE 2011, two staff at DCU’s School of Computing, Paolo Cappellari and Mark Roantree, together with a colleague at University Roma Tre, Roberto De Virgilio, organised the first workshop on Semantic Search over the Web (SSW 2011). The SSW workshop was to provide a forum for discussion and advancement of data management in searching web, and in relationships with semantic web technologies that propose new models, languages and applications.

IBM brings School of Comuting Software Engineering Student to La Gaude France!

Posted Mon, 13/06/2011 - 16:09 by Anonymous
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The 2011 EMEA Best Student Recognition Event  will bring together at IBM La Gaude, France, the top students from across Europe, Middle East and Africa, for a three day event on July 6-8, 2011. Congratulations to Jennifer Flynn, School of Computing student who has accepted IBM's invitation.

During the sessions participants will hear from IBM Executives and Experts on how to become truly part of a Smarter Planet. They will discover innovative solutions and technologies, how to gain insights and optimize results with Business Analytics and Optimization, Nanotechnology, Cognitive Computing  and Cloud Computing. 

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