DIT School of Computing News

DIT Teams take Overall Runners-up and best Windows Phone App at the Irish Imagine Cup Finals

Sun, 06 May 2012 10:18:57 +0100

Celebrating student achievement at the DIT Kevin St Project Fair

Wed, 04 Apr 2012 17:23:50 +0100

The DIT Kevin St Projects fair took place on Wednesday 28 April 2012 in the Gleeson Theater. Around one hundred students presented their work to nearly two hundred industry representatives including sponsors from Ocuco, SAP, Microsoft Ireland, the DIT Hothouse. The fair demonstated the ingenuity, and energy that the students put into their final year projects.
Congratulations to prize winners:
Best Use of Electrical and Control Systems Engineering Prize: ProjecTable, Patrick Fay
Best Use of Electronic & Communications Engineering Prize: Whistle Appliance Control, Daniel Dixon
Microsoft Best Consumption of Microsoft Technologies Prize: Kinect For Orthotics, Bomao Huang
DIT Hothouse Best Commercialisation Potential Prize: Music Festival Application for Android (My Festival @ Oxegen), Karl Fetherstonhaugh
SAP Best Business App Prize: Easy Shopping, Wei Yuan
Ocuco Best Overall Project Prize: The Application Playlist, Darragh Leahy
Pictures and more information on Facebook
A number of students took the opportunity of the project fair to launch start-up business. Check out Pump Station Studios, Glass Robot Studios, Convoy Trucking and exGamers.

DIT team takes first place in the ACM Collegiate Programming Competition in UCC

Mon, 26 Mar 2012 15:32:24 +0100

Congratulations to team DIT Champions who on Saturday 24 March took FIRST PLACE in the ACM Collegiate programming Competition in UCC (Cork) for the second year running. The team battled against no less than 33 teams from higher education institutes across Ireland in a gruelling all day coding marathon. This years competition was sponsored by Big Fish games and Microsoft Ireland. The prize winners took home brand new XBOX 360's for their efforts.

The ACM Collegiate programming competition challenges teams to create solutions to programming problems in the quickest time possible. Over the course of the day the teams are presented with the problems, which they can solve using any programming language they choose. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure.
View the pictures on facebook:
Team DIT Champions members are:
Jinwu Li Rongchen Jia Meng Cui
Also representing DIT were:
Team DT211 Rocks Viktor Zolin Michael Dabski

DIT engineering and computing meet and greet - get the inside know how

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:41:21 +0000

Have you just completed a final year project with commercial potential? Check this out!

Wed, 21 Mar 2012 12:26:58 +0000

Success for DIT in Games Fleadh 2012

Fri, 16 Mar 2012 16:32:04 +0000

Students compete in Dublin GameCraft

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 16:22:22 +0000

Announcing the DIT Kevin Street Project Fair 2012

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:49:08 +0000

Congratulations Dr John Gilligan of the DIT School of Computing

Mon, 27 Feb 2012 08:41:42 +0000

MSc student, Liam Carey wins prestigious Eircom Spider Award

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 16:02:46 +0000

Well done to Liam Carey, who is doing DT209, the MSc in Computing (Information and Knowledge Management) who won an Eircom Spider award last month for his website Bandpages.ie:

http://www.dit.ie/news/archive2011/ditcomputingstudentclaimsprestigiousaward/

School of Computing lecturer Brendan Tierney is an Oracle ACE

Thu, 15 Dec 2011 09:25:51 +0000

School of Computing lecturer and Oracle database expert, Brendan Tierney has has been awarded the title of Oracle ACE. The Oracle ACE Award is issued by the Oracle Corporation and is made to people who are known for their strong credentials in the Oracle community as enthusiasts and advocates for Oracle. There are approx 350 Oracle ACEs around the world but only one other Oracle ACE in Ireland. Brendan was chosen for his significant activity in the Oracle technical community, his proficiency in Oracle technology as well as his willingness to share his knowledge and experiences with the community.

Staff availability for meeting students 2011/2012

Tue, 13 Dec 2011 18:50:50 +0000

See this link for a list of the times that School of Computing staff are available to meet students to discuss course related issued outside of class time.

Open Emotion Studios to sponsor Dublin GameCraft

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 15:57:28 +0000

Science Week in DIT

Sun, 13 Nov 2011 23:15:30 +0000

Announcing the 6th Annual Workshop on Games design for Second Level Students

Tue, 04 Oct 2011 12:24:52 +0100

Like computer games?

The School of Computing has announced that the sixth annual one day workshop on computer game design for second level students will take place on Saturday 12th November 2011 in the Gleeson Theatre, DIT Kevin St., Dublin 8.. Over 2000 students have participated in these workshops over the past five years.

Sorry! Registrations are now closed

Pictures from the 2010 workshops.

Pictures from the 2009 workshops.

Pictures from the 2008 workshops.

Pictures from 2007 workshops.

The workshops which are sponsored by the DIT, The Irish Computer Society and Microsoft Ireland is hosted by games industry guru Ernest Adams. Ernest Adams is a veteran freelance game designer, writer, and teacher, working with the International Hobo Group. He has been in the game industry since 1989, and is the author of three books. Ernest is also the founder and first chairman of the International Game Developers' Association.

This is a day-long exploration of the basics of the craft of game design, covering core mechanics, gameplay, user interface design, concept art, level design, and even a small story. It begins with a lecture, then challenges you to apply what you've learned to flesh out a new game design concept. The classes will then be divided the into teams and each team will work on a different game idea. At the end of the day, you'll present your results to the group and we'll discuss how they came out. Everything is supplied and there are no pre-requisites, all you need is a love of games!

Participation in the the day is FREE (but space is limited so apply early) and all participations will receive lunch and a DIT tee-shirt. You can also win XBOX 360's and games on the day!

Please make sure you have had a parent/guardian/teacher fill out this release form and bring it with you on the day.

hugh.mcatamney@dit.ie

Phone: + 353 1 4023282

Directions

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Wed, 19 Oct 2011 14:29:00 +0100

Games: The college courses that virtually guarantee you will get a job

Wed, 19 Oct 2011 12:30:28 +0100

Win a brand new Windows Mango phone

Mon, 10 Oct 2011 20:37:21 +0100

Microsoft have offered us some of the latest Windows Mango phones to give to the best DIT student developed apps. To be eligible for this competition, you have to get your app on the Windows Phone marketplace before the end of October. Then just send an email to Bryan Duggan to let me know about it. Developing for Windows Phone is really straightforward using Visual Studio with either Silverlight or XNA. Visual Studio can be downloaded through the colleges MSDNAA subscription. Then you need to download the Windows Phone developer tools and register as a Windows Phone developer. This normally costs 99 Euro per year, but is free for students through the Dreamspark program.

Get the new DIT Springboard App

Thu, 08 Sep 2011 10:31:52 +0100

Got an iPhone/iPad or iPod touch? Then download the new DIT Springboard app! The UpskillatDIT app has a searchable database of Springboard up-skilling courses available to qualified job seekers free of charge at the Dublin Institute of Technology. The app was developed by School of Computing lecturer Paul Kelly who teaches on the iPhone programming course. The UpskillatDIT app provides information on over forty courses in areas such as cloud computing, mobile app development, ethical hacking, accessible web design and geographic information systems. Courses are offered at level 6 (higher cert), level 7 (ordinary degree), level 8 (Honours degree) and level 9 (MSc). In addition there are a range of short courses in specialist areas.
For more information on Springboard courses see the main Springboard @ DIT website.

First students graduate from the DIT Computing Academy

Mon, 20 Jun 2011 10:03:04 +0100

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:48:29 +0100

DT228 Student Conor Dunne wins IBM open source award

Fri, 17 Jun 2011 10:33:43 +0100

Interested in making an app?

Tue, 31 May 2011 11:19:29 +0100

Agallamh faoi Tunepal ar Radio na Life inniu

Fri, 22 Apr 2011 20:12:44 +0100

DIT Students Learning With Communities

Mon, 18 Apr 2011 11:32:02 +0100

LMA DT781 CPD in Accessible Web Design students Sharon O'Connor, Shane Dunne, John Prendergast, and Justin Molloy have been nominated for a DIT Students Learning With Communities Award for their work with Enable Ireland on the DIT Community Design Challenge. Best of luck guys!

Thinking of studying Computing or Computer Science in September?

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 21:38:47 +0100

If you are a 6th year student and thinking of studying either the BSc in Computing (DT211) or BSC in Computer Science (DT228) in September, then you are invited to come along to the College of Science open day this Saturday 2 April in DIT Kevin St. At this event you can meet lecturers and students from the two programs, get a tour of the facilities and see the types of projects students in the School of Computing work on.
We have lots of interesting software for you to play with including iPhone apps, movement controlled virtual musical instruments and prize winning XBox games using the Kinect. All of the work you will see has been developed by current DIT students!
There is no need to book, just come along between 10am and 1pm.
Hope to see you there!

Success for DIT at the ACM Collegiate Programming Competition

Mon, 28 Mar 2011 18:10:15 +0100

Congratulations to team 08HITDIT who took FIRST PLACE in the ACM Collegiate programming Competition in UCC (Cork) on Saturday 26 March. The team battled against 16 other teams from higher education institutes across Ireland in a gruelling all day coding marathon, but emerged clear winners at the end. Said team member Rongchen Jia, "We have been training for this for the past year doing problems each week to improve our programming and problem solving skills".
The ACM Collegiate programming competition challenges teams to create solutions to programming problems in the quickest time possible. Over the course of the day the teams are presented with the problems, which they can solve using any programming language they choose. The contest fosters creativity, teamwork, and innovation in building new software programs, and enables students to test their ability to perform under pressure.
View the pictures on facebook:
Team 08HITDIT members are:
Jinwu Li     Rongchen Jia     Meng Cui
Also representing DIT were:
Team core3: Bin Han     Yan Li     Wenyi Huang
Team HITMan:     Wenxin Shi     Zejun Wu     Zhen Lao
Team Jamie: Jamie Osler     Kiril Kirilov     Eoin Rogers
Team The Shoes Jiefeng Yu     Shuliang Hong     Wei Wang

Are you doing a significant project this year - then read this!

Wed, 16 Mar 2011 16:57:17 +0000

DITCon Lan party to raise money to fund computer science students' trip to Malawi in April

Fri, 11 Mar 2011 18:46:18 +0000

DIT takes first place in the XNA Challenge @ Games Fleadh 2011

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:20:30 +0000

School of Computing Research Project, Lingle, in Irish Times Coverage

Tue, 01 Mar 2011 16:03:52 +0000

There was a nice story on Lingle, the results of a collaborative translational research project between DIT and the National Digital Research Centre, in the Innovation section of the Irish Times on Friday the 25th of February. The full article is available from the Irish Times website here.

Join a Masterclass in story telling for computer games

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 14:42:37 +0000

Exciting Web Development Job Opportunity

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 21:50:41 +0000

We are looking for a talented web front-end developer to craft the user interface for Lingle (www.lingleonline.com), an online application borne out of a joint Dublin Institute of Technology (DIT) / National Digital Research Centre (NDRC) translational research project. The project is using research in machine learning, computational linguistics and eLearning from DIT to develop search tools for English-as-a-second-language teachers. The successful applicant will become an intergral part of a multi-disciplinary team that is taking the core resarch and turning it into a successful product that will revolutionise language teaching and learning and form the basis of a spin-out company.

Details are available here.

Submit your final year project to the Undergraduate Awards of Ireland competition

Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:54:52 +0000

Countdown to Games Fleadh 2011

Fri, 11 Feb 2011 15:45:37 +0000

DIT Join The Analytics Institute

Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:01:02 +0000

Following on from the launch of the DIT MSc in Computing (Data Analytics) (www.comp.dit.ie/bmacnamee/analytics) in 2010, the beginning of 2011 sees DIT join the the Analytics Institute. The Analytics Institute (www.analyticsinstitute.org) is a global Centre of Excellence in Advanced Analytics that brings together industry, academics, public sector organisations and professionals to change the way organisations interact with analytics. The AI provides a place for all of these groups to come together to create public value, and is fast becoming the go-to place for those with a passion for improving the field of Analytics.

Imagine Cup important dates this semester

Tue, 25 Jan 2011 14:15:26 +0000

MSDN Academic Alliance

Sun, 23 Jan 2011 13:50:59 +0000

The School of Computing has purchased an MSDN Academic Alliance subscription which covers all students studying in the School of Computing. Through this program, students can get access to a range of Microsoft software free of charge for learning or research purposes. This covers Windows 7 and Visual Studio, but not MS Office.
To get access to this system, enter your DIT student email address here. You will receive a password in your DIT email. Then login here to get access to your downloads. Most of the software is in the form of ISO's, which you can either burn to a DVD or mount using software such as Daemon Tools. Please be aware that we cannot provide any support for downloading or burning DVD's. If you have any problems with your login, please let me know.

DIT Lecturer Dr Susan McKeever completes PhD with a thesis entitled: Recognising situations using extended Dempster Shafer theory

Mon, 17 Jan 2011 15:52:23 +0000

Congratulations to School of Computing lecturer Dr Susan McKeever who passed her PhD exam with a thesis entitled: Recognising situations using extended Dempster Shafer theory.
Her work is in pervasive systems that focus on recognising people's activities in smart environments using sensors. With sensors embedded in everyday objects, people's activities can be automatically and remotely tracked. This will be useful, for example, in allowing elderly residents to live independently, but with the support of a monitoring system in their home As part of such a system, data from sensors has to be interpreted and recognised as higher level situations, such as whether a person is eating or resting and so on. This is a difficult problem because of the unreliability of sensors, changing habits of people and general uncertainty of the recognition process. Susan developed a reasoning technique, based on evidence (Dempster Shafer) theory. This approach is ideal for using sensor data, but does not rely on training data, unlike the machine learning approaches that are commonly used to address this problem. As part of her work, she extended existing evidence theory to allow time and sensor quality knowledge into the reasoning process. She proved that the approach is effective for situation recognition, and in particular, that her evidence extensions significantly improve recognition.

Brendan Marsh wins second place in the Microsoft Windows Phone 7 Apps Challenge

Tue, 07 Dec 2010 17:44:53 +0000

Mark Foley talks about Geographic Information Systems on Dublin City FM

Tue, 23 Nov 2010 18:01:05 +0000

Mark Foley, a lecturer in the School of Computing who teaches Geographic Information Systems was interviewed as part of the Science Spin program on Dublin City FM last week. The program presents a great introduction to to the subject.
Listen to a Podcast of the broadcast here

Tunepal wins best overall invention in DIT's Inventor 2010 Competition

Mon, 22 Nov 2010 18:09:31 +0000

Directions to the Games design Workshop on Saturday 20 November 2010

Wed, 10 Nov 2010 17:12:56 +0000

The one day games design workshop with Ernest Adams will take place on 20 November.

The workshops will take place in room 5050 in DIT's Aungier St campus. The workshops will begin at 10am sharp, so please try to be there by 9:30am. Below is a google map, to help you find the venue. You can also take a bus from the city centre. Bus numbers 16, 16a, 19, 19a and 83 pass by the college.

There are graduations taking place in Aungier St that day, so when you come in the main entrance, turn left past cafe Java and take the lift to the fifth floor.

Please make sure you have had a parent/guardian/teacher fill out this release form and bring it with you on the day.

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Looking forward to meeting you all!

Science Week Events. Everyone welcome!

Tue, 09 Nov 2010 16:49:25 +0000

More graduation 2010 photos

Mon, 08 Nov 2010 15:29:04 +0000

Courtesy of DT211 Course Chair Patricia O'Byrne. Enjoy! Photo's

Lingle Launched in Private beta

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 18:58:40 +0000

Lingle - the result of a joint translational research project between staff in the DIT Schools of Computing and Art, Design and Printing and the National Digital Research Centre (www.ndrc.ie) - launched in private beta this week at www.lingleonline.com.

Lingle is an online tool to facilitate English-as-a-second-language (ESL) teaching and learning. It saves users time and effort in sourcing and preparing real-world, relevant, appropriate and current course material based on authentic texts (e.g. newspaper articles or blog posts).

Visit www.lingleonline.com now to request an invitation to join the beta.

Games Fleadh 2011 theme announced: Frogger

Thu, 14 Oct 2010 12:11:35 +0100

Graduation 2010

Fri, 22 Oct 2010 12:52:58 +0100

Congratulations to all graduates from last Saturday's graduation ceremony. Photographs taken by Dr Michael Collins are now available. If anyone would like me to remove a picture, please let me know.

Universal Design Workshop Update

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 15:47:25 +0100

Slides and photos from the workshop on Innovation in Universal Design are now online:

Get a first look at Windows Phone 7 this Friday in DIT

Tue, 12 Oct 2010 10:18:55 +0100

DIT Lecturer Dr Michael Collins completes PhD with a thesis entitled: A Secure Architecture for Wireless Sensor Networks

Mon, 11 Oct 2010 16:17:52 +0100

What's it like being an Intern @ Microsoft?

Wed, 06 Oct 2010 21:32:00 +0100

Make an App - Do it now!

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 16:41:30 +0100

Presentation from Michael Meagher of Microsoft on 4th October

Wed, 29 Sep 2010 12:10:24 +0100

DIT School of Computing lecturer Cindy Liu to present a talk on the Chinese Satellite Launching Centre

Mon, 27 Sep 2010 19:29:51 +0100

MSc in Digital Games now accepting applications

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 09:40:51 +0100

Applications are now being accepted for the new MSc in Digital Games

For more information on the course see the course homepage.

To apply for all post graduate courses in the School of Computing.

To make an enquiry please fill out this form.

Digital games comprise a large and fast-growing part of the global entertainment industry. This new Masters programme will prepare graduates to become innovators in this exciting field. It provides a multi-disciplinary and well-rounded education in game conception, design and manufacture,uniquely building on the combined expertise of the Digital Media Centre, andthe Schools of Media and Computer Science.

This full-time programme will provide modules in game design, programming, project management and cultural analysis. The modular structure of the course will cater for varying levels of experience in each area. Particular emphasis will be placed on integrating skills through group projects. It will appeal to graduates from diverse undergraduate and work experiences, including the visual and media arts, and computer science.

DIT to host a workshop on Universal Design - towards a new future

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 14:05:46 +0100

Find us on Facebook!

Wed, 22 Sep 2010 15:26:26 +0100

Keep up with events in the DIT School of Computing on facebook. "Like" it to get updates on your wall:

http://www.facebook.com/ditschoolofcomputing

Learn C++ through English and Chinese

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 22:05:49 +0100

DIT School of Computing lecturer Paul Kelly in collaboration with Professor Su Xiaohong, School of Computer Science, Harbin Institute of Technology, China has recently published the world's first bilingual book for learning C++ programming. The book teaches C++ using practical examples which are explained in English with the more difficult parts also annotated in Chinese. The book will be particularly useful to Chinese computer science students worldwide.

The book is published by The Publishing House of Electronics Industry, Beijing.

There is a copy of the book in the Kevin St library (with more copies coming soon).

More information in Chinese and translated into English using Google translate.

School of Computing lecturer Damian Gordon gives a keynote presentation

Mon, 20 Sep 2010 13:53:47 +0100

School of Computing lecturer Damian Gordon was one of the
keynote speakers at the Second Irish Application Security Conference
in Trinity College, Dublin, on September 17th. His talk entitled "Hackers and
Hollywood: The Implications of the Popular Media Representation of Computer
Hacking" focused on the dangers to non-IT organisations who incorrectly assess the
potential threats to their computer security based on the erroneous portrayal of
hackers by the popular media.

The conference was orgainsed by The Open Web Application Security
Project (OWASP) who are a not-for-profit worldwide charitable organization
focused on improving the security of application software. All security software
developed by OWASP is available under a free and open software license. The organisation encourages students to join and contribute to their open
source software.

Damian will be giving this talk again at this weeks Dublin Nerd Night event on Wednesday, 22 September, 6:30 pm onwards at Messrs Maguire, Burgh Quay, Dublin 2

HIT-DIT Graduation Ceremony

Wed, 15 Sep 2010 17:13:44 +0100

Congratulations to all graduates from last years joint HIT-DIT MSc and BSc programs who graduated in a ceremony in DIT on 14 September 2010.

View photos from the event

Coverage of the graduation ceremony on Silicon Republic

Successful student entrepreneurs

Thu, 26 Aug 2010 14:26:08 +0100

It's a tried and tested path, isn't it? Go to school, get your qualifications, then use the knowledge you've gained to climb your way to financial greatness.

However, some of the biggest and brightest businessmen on the planet tore up that rulebook by starting up lucrative companies while they were still in education. Click through to find out which entrepreneurs kick-started their success stories while students...

Read the full story on MSN.

Google to create 200 new jobs in Dublin Operations Centre

Fri, 20 Aug 2010 16:52:39 +0100

Internet giant Google is to create 200 jobs in Dublin with a new operations centre, it was revealed today.

The offices, at Eastpoint Business Park in the city's Docklands, are set to be fully up and running by the end of the year

Google said the centre will focus mainly on its geographic-based products such as Google Maps and Google Local.

And the company, which currently employs 1,500 people in the capital, has already started recruiting for graduates with strong IT skills.

Full story from the Irish Independant.

School of Computing to offer 150 places under the Labour Market Activation Program

Thu, 19 Aug 2010 09:49:54 +0100

The School of Computing is pleased to offer up to 150 free college places to job seekers as part of the Labour Market Activtation program funded by the Department of Education and Skills. The school will offer the following courses to qualified applicatants:

CPD Diploma in Geographical Information Systems & Technology
CPD Diploma in Accessible Web Design
CPD Diploma in Green IT
CPD Diploma in Computer Game Prototyping and Ludology
CPD Certificate in iPhone Applications Programming

If you know of anyone who might benefit from a chance to upskill or re-skill, please let them know. More details and application forms here:

http://www.dit.ie/upskill/

Tunepal in today's Irish Times!

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 10:03:09 +0100

Success for DT211 graduates

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:43:42 +0100

There is further evidence of the continuing strength of the tech industry in Ireland today as the vast majority of this years DT211 graduating class are now in full time employment, just one month after completing their degrees. Course chair Patricia O'Byrne attributes their success to DT211's practical, applied computing focus combined with the opportunity to spend up to two days per week in third and fourth year on paid internship in the IT industry. Congratulations and future success to all graduates!

Professor Kokichi Futatsugi to visit the DIT School of Computing

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:37:39 +0100

Professor Kokichi Futatsugi from the Japan Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (JAIST) will make an academic visit the School of Computing from 21-22 of July. Prof. Futatsugi is a highly respected figure in the formal computer science community. He is noted for his work on algebraic specifications and he has been the leader of the CafeOBJ project since its inception. One of Prof. Futatsugi's research goals is to design and develop new computer languages which can open up new application areas. The School of Computing has expertise in serval areas where such new languages can be used. Hence, two research topics have been identified:

The application of CafeOBJ to the representaion and structuring of geographical information .
The use of the CafeOBJ language for teaching discrete mathematics.

Great coverage of Team Imaginote in the Irish Times

Fri, 16 Jul 2010 09:35:19 +0100

Team Imaginote represent Ireland in Poland this week

Sat, 03 Jul 2010 22:16:21 +0100

DIT School of Computing students Nikola Nevin, Marco Castorina, Jonathan Lynch and Philip Kavanagh are representing Ireland in the Software Design Competition of the Imagine Cup in Poland this week. The team have developed an amazing music therapy application called Imaginote and have spend the last week running user trials with Enable Ireland, the Central Remedial Clinic, Tyrrelstown Educate Together National School and St Catherine's Special School in Wicklow.

Follow the teams progress on the Imaginote Facebook Page

Watch a movie all about Imaginote

Vote for Team Imaginote in the People's Choice awards

Interview with Nikola Nevin in today's Irish Times

Fri, 18 Jun 2010 09:19:28 +0100

NEW!! MSc in Computing (Data Analytics)

Wed, 16 Jun 2010 22:09:08 +0100

The School of Computing is introducing a new MSc in September 2010.

The MSc in Computing (Data Analytics) is designed to create hybrid technologists to work in the growing and important area of data analytics. Data analytics is the science of extracting actionable insight from large amounts of raw data.

Hybrid technologists are graduates equipped with deep technical skills (in data management, data mining, probability and statistics, and machine learning), but also with the softer skills (in communications, research and problem solving) required to work effectively within organisations.

Offered full-time (1 year) or part-time (2 years).

More Detail Here >>>

Photos from todays project fair now online

Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:57:52 +0100

Thanks to all students and staff who participated in today's successful projects fair.

Photo's from today's event

Harbin Institute of Technology celebrates 90 years

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 10:05:51 +0100

Congratulations to staff and students in our partner institute the Harbin Institute of Technology, China which celebrated its 90th birthday in a spectacular ceremony on June 5 2010. The School of Computing has offered a joint BSc in Computer Science degree in partnership with HIT since 2003 and each year roughly thirty HIT students study in DIT.

The celebration party for the 90th anniversary of the founding of HIT was held in the school's stadium. More than 16,000 alumni from home and abroad, guests and representatives of faculties and students joined Professor Brian Norton, the president of DIT who attended the event, to wish HIT a happy birthday.

Leading officials and honored guests who attended the party included Ji Bingxuan, party chief of Helongjiang province, Li Zhanshu, governor of Heilongjiang province, Zhang Yannong, president of People's Daily, Yuan Guiren, minister of Education, Li Yizhong, minister of Industry and Information Technology, Liu Binjie, director-general of the General Administration of Press and Publication, Luan Enjie, chief commander of China's lunar exploration project and Sun Jiadong, chief engineer of the project.

Photos of the event

Projects fair REMINDER!

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 08:23:55 +0100

Please come along and support this years Project Fair which will be held in in the Gleeson Theatre on June 9^th between 10am and 12pm.

Even if you havent submitted an abstract, you are welcome to come along and showcase your work to invited potential employers.

Students from all years are invited to come along and see the amazing projects developed by this years final year undergraduate and postgraduate students. Tea/Coffee and light refreshments will be served with an opening address by a keynote speaker.

AOL to create 50 new jobs in Dublin

Tue, 08 Jun 2010 07:58:15 +0100

AOL said this morning it is to create 50 new software engineering jobs at its Dublin Development Centre over the next two years.

AOL is also moving to new headquarters in Dublin city centre from its base at Citywest where it has been for the past 10 years.

The new Dublin city centre operation will develop internet advertising technologies, services and user content through the wide range of AOL content brands.

Full story

Team Imaginote on RTE news tonight

Tue, 01 Jun 2010 19:06:34 +0100

Check out RTE news @ 9pm on RTE 1 and 11pm on RTE 2 tonight (1 June) for interviews with Nikola Nevin and March Castorina from Imagine Cup Software Design first prize winning team Imaginote.

First human 'infected with computer virus'

Thu, 27 May 2010 15:15:22 +0100

Dr Mark Gasson from the University of Reading contaminated a computer chip which was then inserted into his hand.

The device, which enables him to pass through security doors and activate his mobile phone, is a sophisticated version of ID chips used to tag pets.

In trials, Dr Gasson showed that the chip was able to pass on the computer virus to external control systems.

More Details >>>

EA Games to Create 200 new jobs in Galway

Wed, 26 May 2010 08:41:33 +0100

International computer games firm Electronic Arts said today it plans to open a European customer service and operations centre in Galway, creating about 200 jobs.

The centre, which will support EA's Bioware studio, will be operational by 2011.

The Bioware studio is responsible for developing titles such as Mass Effect , Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic and Dragon Age : Origins .

Full Story

Undergraduate Awards of Ireland & Northern Ireland

Thu, 13 May 2010 14:26:08 +0100

Final year students! be sure and submit your final year projects to this competition. You must be expecting to receive a 2.1 or higher for consideration:

Undergraduate Awards of Ireland & Northern Ireland

Irish Software Show Comes to Dublin

Thu, 13 May 2010 14:13:12 +0100

Press coverage of ImagineNote

Fri, 30 Apr 2010 18:00:51 +0100

siliconrepublic
Electronic News Network
Irish Times

Projects Fair - 9 June 2010

Thu, 13 May 2010 14:07:52 +0100

The School of Computing is proud to announce that this years Project Fair will be held in Kevin Street on June 9^th between 10am and 12pm. Further details will following, but here is a quick overview of the event.

All Undergraduate and Postgraduate final year students are invited to participate by exhibiting their final year projects to a selection of IT Companies who will be invited to the event. This is a great way to help you show your work to potential future employers. Tea/Coffee and light refreshments will be served with an opening address by a keynote speaker.

A booklet will be produced for the event and you are very much encouraged to participate by sending me an email with the following details by May 26^th.

Title of your project (required)
Your Name/Year/Class (required)
A half page abstract of your project (required)
A picture of yourself/Team(optional)
Picture of your project (optional)

Further details will be provided over the next few weeks. We will contact you regarding project demonstration options when you send details for the booklet.

Synchronicity Hackathon, May 15th and 16th (with 3D printer)

Sat, 08 May 2010 00:35:37 +0100

TOG, the Irish Hackerspace group, where members have a place to be creative and work on projects in an environment that is both inspiring and supportive of both new and old technologies.

On May 15th and 16th they will be holding the annual Synchronicity Hackathon, where there will be a number of projects on display, including;

a 3D printer
an x0xb0x synthesizer
a homemade weather station

For more details see > > the TOG website

School of Computing Champions Lunch

Tue, 04 May 2010 18:08:06 +0100

Team DIT Wins @ the Imagine Cup Software Design Finals

Thu, 29 Apr 2010 22:53:59 +0100

Success today for two School of Computing teams in the Imagine Cup Software Design Finals which were hosted in Gleeson Theatre, DIT Kevin St. After two days of intense presentations in Microsoft's Campus and in DIT, "Team Imaginote" were announced outright winners while "Team Cloud Hands" took second place. This represents the culmination of nine months of hard word for both teams and is a fantastic achievement for the students. Their projects have huge potential for further development and are a great example of how technology innovation can change lives - and the world. Team Imaginote will go on to represent Ireland at the world Imagine Cup finals in Poland in July.

Team Imaginote - A music and physical therapy application using sound beams (sonic momement sensors) that translate physical movements into beautiful patterns and sounds. The software was developed by Nikola Nevin(DT228) and Marco Castorina(DT584) with the help of Enable Ireland and Tyrrelstown Educate Together National School.

Team Cloud Hands - An amazing Tai Ch training simulation using 3D graphics, motion capture, speech recognition and augmented reality developed by Frank Han (DT584), Johnathan Lynch (DT584), Jonathan Plunket(DT228) and Xu Haoming(UL).

Check out photo's from the event

RTE to film in the School of Computing this Wednesday 28 April

Mon, 26 Apr 2010 14:39:00 +0100

If you fancy being on TV, then I am happy to let you know that RTE will be filming this Wednesday morning in the School of Computing between 11am and 12pm for a documentary on the Your Country Your Call competition. Dragons Den star Richard Farleigh will be filmed sitting in on some lectures. The filming will take place in room K408 @ 11am. We need to ensure a full room of students, so please come along!

Success for DIT @ the ACM collegiate programming contest in UCC

Thu, 22 Apr 2010 16:59:03 +0100

Congratulations to School of Computing students Frank Han, Howard Lin and Shi Wen-Xin who came third place in the ACM collegiate programming contest in UCC on Saturday 17 April. Congratulations also to Conor Dunne, Brendan Marsh and Zachery Davidson who came fourth place. The third DIT team Graham Hayes, Ross O'Neill, Hugh Pearse made a valiant effort in the algorithm design competition, however technical problems on the day prevented their solutions from being considered.

The ACM collegiate programming contest presents students with algorithm design challenges that tests their programming skills in C, C++, C# and Java.

Photos from the event

Irish Imagine Cup Final Project Showcase - Thursday 29 April

Mon, 19 Apr 2010 16:48:55 +0100

ITG Summer Internship

Mon, 12 Apr 2010 13:10:35 +0100

ITG (www.itg.com) are looking to hire students to commence work at the beginning of July for 6 weeks paid summer internship. (Job Description)
They are targeting students studying Technology degrees for the MIS team role

The first stage of the recruitment process is the CV screening
The second stage is a phone interview.

All students that pass each of these stages will be invited to an Assessment day in our Dublin office. We will select the successful candidate from that final group. There is only one placement for each role.

If you are interested in this role, please send a copy of your CV to Gillian Maguire (details below) including a list of exams dates when you will NOT be available fo rinterview.

ITG have not yet finalised the date of the Assessment day but will give students plenty of notice in advance. ---

Gillian Maguire
HR Generalist
Investment Technology Group
Ground Floor
Georges Court
54-62 Townsend Street
Dublin 2
Ph: 00353 1 6338016
www.itg.com
Gillian.Maguire@itg.com

East Point Jobs Fair

Thu, 08 Apr 2010 17:56:38 +0100

East Point Business Park
will hold a jobs fair on
Friday 16th April 10:30am - 2:30pm and 5:00pm - 8:00pm
Ground Gloor, Estuary House, East Point Office Park, Dublin 3

Leading multinational companies in East Point, including Quintiles, Oracle, Citrix, Conduit, Peninsula and OSK, will be recruiting for 175 new roles in IT, sales, telecommunications, pharmaceutical services and HR consultancy.

For further information, please call C驲e on 8551995 or ceire@eastpoint.ie
http://www.comp.dit.ie/mdeegan/images/JobsFairAd.pdf

Fri, 02 Apr 2010 09:50:10 +0100

Now the location of choice for international headquarters of companies such as Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, eBay and Gala Networks, Dublin is on its way to becoming the internet capital of Europe. In just one week, Dublin received welcome jobs news in the form of more than 400 new internet jobs for the city.

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IT Courses gain in popularity

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 12:51:06 +0100

Ref: Irish Independent, March 31 2010.

The latest statistics show that first preference applications for IT honours degrees have gone up from 1,835 in 2007 to 2,623 this year.

The increase in applications for ordinary degree/higher certificates was more startling -- first preferences are up 24.7pc this year following a 20pc rise last year.

While there has been a decline in the manufacturing side of the IT sector in Ireland recently, skills shortages persist in areas related to other aspects of the IT industry, according to the Expert Group on Future Skills Needs. It says that there is still a shortage of computer systems managers, and IT professionals with business knowledge and managerial skills.
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350 new tech jobs for Dublin

Thu, 01 Apr 2010 09:12:52 +0100

Good news on the jobs front today as online auction company eBay announces 150 new jobs while IBM announces the establishment of its first Smarter Cities Technology Centre in which it expects to employ up to 200 staff.

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Tunepal is listed in the top twenty cultural apps by the Sunday Times

Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:29:47 +0100

Ada Lovelace Day: March 24th

Wed, 24 Mar 2010 18:00:09 +0000

Ada Lovelace Day is an international day of blogging to celebrate the achievements of women in technology and science.

The first Ada Lovelace Day was held on 24th March 2009 and was a huge success. It attracted nearly 2000 signatories to the pledge and 2000 more people who signed up on Facebook. Over 1200 people added their post URL to the Ada Lovelace Day 2009 mash-up. The day itself was covered by BBC News Channel, BBC.co.uk, Radio 5 Live, The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Metro, Computer Weekly, and VNUnet, as well as hundreds of blogs worldwide.

This year it is hoped that 3072 people will sign the pledge to blog today (Why 3072? You might well ask, it's because 3072 is one of the standard lengths for an 8-bit encryption key).

My blog posting for the day is here.

The Website:http://findingada.com/
The Blog: http://blog.findingada.com
on Twitter http://twitter.com/FindingAda
on Facebook http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=253179284089

Final Year Project Students' Drop-in Technical Consultation Service

Tue, 16 Mar 2010 14:27:25 +0000

The service is a support to students who are experiencing specific technical difficulties in the final year projects. There are two pre-requisites required of the students with regard to the use of the service.

The students must know the issue (if not the issue then the causing or effecting factors)
Steps to remedy the issue prior to contacting the service must have been taken.

After a student has contacted the service the supervisor of the project, the student and the service provider (known as a Tutor/Demonstrator) will be contacted by email with the exact nature of the issue and help provided.
The School has hired several postgraduate students to provide the service and they have a wide and highly technical skill set. For example the service has employed an exceptional Phd student who is a recent honours graduate of DT228 and ex-google employee who has extensive experience across platforms and has implemented many projects in Java, Javascript, c and c++ and recently developed a websites for an on-line bookshop.
The student will be refused the service and referred to their supervisor if they do not communicate the two pre-requisites above or they have issues regarding their projects design or methodology.

Title: Technical Issues Consultation Service
Date: Mondays,Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays
Time: 17.00 -18.00 hrs
Location: A117, Kevin St.

Accreditation by BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:27:54 +0000

Dare To Be Digital 2010 - Deadline Approaches

Thu, 18 Mar 2010 10:50:15 +0000

School of Computing

Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:27:40 +0000

If you have ever considered studying for a PhD after you finish your current degree, then a seminar being held this Monday might answer some of your questions. Staff from the School of Computing will discuss, amongst other things:

What is a PhD?
What is involved in studying for a PhD?
What good is a PhD for my career?
Full-time versus part-time PhDs
How do I find a PhD position?
Tips on applying for PhD positions

All are welcome and there will be plenty of time after the presentation for questions and answers and an opportunity to speak with current PhD students.

Title: What is a PhD?
Date: Monday, 15th March
Time: 18:30
Location: A310, Kevin St.

DIT Hothouse launches 2010 Inventors Competition

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:51:55 +0000