CPSSD Team take Irish title @ Google HashCode Competition

Posted Thu, 02/03/2017 - 19:06 by gconway
hashcode2017CPSSD 2nd years, Noah Donnelly and Cian Ruane, came out on top of 53 University teams from around Ireland at this year’s Google HashCode competition held in the School of Computing last thursday evening (23/2/17). What’s more amazing is that their webform crushing team (name) '"><script>alert()</script> placed 164th out of 2815 teams from various Institutions from around European, Middle East and Africa. That puts them in the top 5%, a fantastic achievement.
 
 
Google HashCode is a team competition where teams a given a real-life engineering problem from Google to solve. Past problems have included Optimizing Street View Routing or planning altitude and direction of a fleet of LTE equipped balloons to provide Internet to remote areas. This year, students had to optimize the video-serving infrastructure behind YouTube to handle requests reliably and quickly. See below for the problem statement.
 

Dr. Páraic Sheridan wins Eng & Computing Faculty Alumni Award

Posted Tue, 21/02/2017 - 13:03 by gconway

Paraic Sheridan and Andy Way, Adapt CentreDr. Paraic Sheridan, Associate Director in ADAPT, was amoung the honoured at the Inaugural DCU Alumni Awards held in the Helix last Friday night, 17th February 2017.

The DCU Alumni Awards celebrate the wonderful achievements of DCU alumni across the world. Ten awardees to be added to the Alumni Wall in DCU Library and five special awards for outstanding contribution to Irish Society. It is a fantastic night of celebration, entertainment and recognition of our DCU community.

DCU president Brian MacCraith said: “Their accomplishments, across so many aspects of society, are a source of great pride to DCU and an inspiration to present and future generations of DCU students.”

ComputeTY2 - ComputeTY's Top Programmers!

Posted Tue, 14/02/2017 - 13:46 by gconway
ComputeTY2 winners

L-R – Dr. John McKenna and Gary Conway, School of Computing - Maxym Balashchuk, Ardgillan College, Michael O’Neill, St. Fintan’s School Sutton and Rico Duessmann Mount Temple Comprehensive, all winners of ComputeTY2 and Prema Bhuiyan, Bank of Ireland sponsor.

DCU School of Computing run a ComputeTY programme every year taking in approximately 380 TY students from North Dublin and South Meath to give them a taste of Undergraduate Computer Science. This year for the first year thanks to Bank of Ireland, the cream of ComputeTY were invited back to further their computing skills with the aim of preparing them for entry in the All-Ireland Programming Olympiad (AIPO) also hosted in DCU.  

 
Bank of Ireland put up three mini iPads for the winners of a programming contest held at the end of the day. The results were:
  1. Michael O’Neill, St. Fintan’s School Sutton
  2. Rico Duessmann Mount Temple Comprehensive
  3. Maxym Balashchuk, Ardgillan College
Although there were three winners, all the ComputeTY students should be commended for achievement of reaching the second day. These students consumed the first four to five weeks of our first year Python Undergraduate course in a week and a day!

ComputeTY 2017 - Bank of Ireland Joins Our Ongoing Journey

Posted Tue, 31/01/2017 - 15:13 by gconway
ComputeTY-2017

There was no delay for some students getting straight into a productive 2017, by participating in DCU’s School of Computing ComputeTY programme.  This transition year programme allows TY students to visit the campus for one week to learn computer programming, web design and android app development.  It runs for three weeks every year  with approximately 380 TY students on campus.

Prof. Rory O’Connor, Head of School of Computing said “We are delighted this year to have the support of Bank of Ireland  who joined forces with us to help support ComputeTY and bring it to a new level through innovation and transformation of the programming stream.   With Bank of Ireland’s support, this year, students will learn how to programme in Python the most popular programming language in the world, with a view to giving them a taste of our Computer Application Undergraduate degree here in DCU.   Students learn to program with the help of the BBC micro:bit.”  The micro: bits are powerful handheld, fully programmable computers only 5cm wide designed by the BBC and makes a great introduction to the world of programmable components.  Students connect the BBC micro: bit to their computer via USB or use an app for android devices.   

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