School of Computing

The final year students from the Schools of Computing and Electronic Engineering participated in a hugely successful event on Tuesday 31^st May, in the Helix.  The event, Expo 2011, gave these students the opportunity to showcase the work they had completed for their final year project (FYP) assignments and to demonstrate their achievements to invited corporate guests from the ICT sector.

It started at 8.00am with a breakfast and short speeches from DCU President Prof. Brian McCraith, guest speaker Liam Ryan, Managing Director of SAP Ireland and the two Heads of School, Prof. Mike Scott and Dr. Noel Murphy.  Over 200 guests from many of the top ICT companies arrived with great enthusiasm and eagerness to meet the students.   James Flynn and Brendan Murray of IBM Ireland announced Graham Rhodes, 4^th Year student from the BSc. in Computer Applications as the winner of a high spec laptop for the best use of Opensource in his project.

The 11th International Conference Software Process Improvement and Capability dEtermination (SPICE) will be held in Dublin City University from 30 May to 1 June 2011 and is co-chaired by Dr. Rory O'Connor from the School of Computing, DCU.

Over the last eleven years the SPICE conference has become the number one source of choice for thousands of experts, speakers, visitors and exhibitors who are interested in ISO/IEC 15504 and the subject of process improvement and capability determination. Participants from more than 30 countries, a program committee from five continents and the best experts in the field make the perfect setting for exhibiting and reaching the international SPICE community.