NEWS (Semester
1 2000/2001)
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- Winners of Essay Competition:
(25th January '01)
Mark Boyle and Paul Matteucci were the two winners in an essay
competition for the scholarships donated by the Microsoft European
Product Development Centre. The EPDC has kindly offered to give
prizes of £1000 to each of two students.
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- Exit
Survey on Final Year Students -- School Policy Document: (23rd
January '01)
While surveys of individual modules on a variety of courses taught
in the School have been conducted in the past two years, there
have been no surveys of entire academic programmes to date. It
is proposed that beginning with the academic year 2000-01, exit
surveys of final year students in all academic programmes taught
within the School will be instigated.
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- DCLRS
Seminar Series : (23rd January '01)
Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminars 2000/2001,
hosted jointly by SALIS and the School of Computer Aplications
resumes again after the Christmas break with the first seminar
on Friday the 26th January.
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- Barcoding
for Student Assignments: (22nd January '01)
A new project cover form, with barcode is now available off the
main CA webpage and
will be effective from the start of Semester II. This will replace
the old project cover form and will include a unique barcode for
each form. Students will complete a Web form, print it and attach
it as a cover sheet to their submissions. The Web Form is internally
and externally accessible. The form must be printed on a laser
printer as the lab line printers do not give sufficient quality
for scanning. Laser printers are available in L114 and throughout
the campus.
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- School Research Convenor
: (18th January '01)
Dr. Geoff Hamilton is now
the new research convenor in the School of Computing.
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- Helpdesk
Webpage: (18th January '01)
A new Computer Applications Helpdesk Webpage is now available.
Many of the common computer problems which students frequent the
Helpdesk for, have been addressed.
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- Campus Residents now
have access to Físchlár: (3rd January '01)
The Físchlár
web demo system to record, browse and playback TV programmes
is now available to the campus residents.
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- Ericsson donation:
(23rd November '00)
The Radio Networks Support Centre in Ericsson Systems in Clonskeagh,
Dublin, have donated a pair of Professional Bluetooth Development
kits for research purposes to Brian Stone and his students, here
in the School of Computing. This will allow those
researchers to develop wireless mobile applications as well as
to do research on bluetooth technology. The donation is valued
at about £12,000. We are very grateful to Ericsson for this
support.
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- "Intellectual
Property issues for Software" - Talk for CA4s and CL4s: (22nd
November '00)
Robert Cochrane, Head of the Centre for Software Engineering will
be giving a talk on "Intellectual Property issues for Software",
next Wednesday 29th November from 14.00-15.00 in QG13. The talk
will cover how patenting and copyright issues apply to software
development. All CA4s and CL4s are invited to attend.
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- SmartForce
- new sponsorship agreement worth £200,000 : (9th November
'00)
SmartForce, the e-learning company, today announced details of
a new sponsorship agreement worth £200,000 with Dublin City
University. SmartForce will provide resources and guest lecturers
as part of the DCU M.Sc in Electronic Commerce. The Masters program
in Electronic Commerce is a one-year full time course featuring
a core curriculum with a choice of Business or Technical streams.
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- Congratulations to
our New Graduates : (5th November '00)
On Friday, 3 November 2000, another 280 graduates joined the ranks
of graduates with degrees from the School of Computing
at Dublin City University. This included 138 graduating with a
B.Sc. in Computer Applications, 12 graduating with a B.Sc. in
Applied Computational Linguistics, 107 graduating with a Graduate
Diploma in Information Technology and 23 with various Graduate
Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters degrees. Congratulations
to all
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- Annual
Report 1999/2000: (16th October '00)
The Annual report for the year 1999/2000 for the School of Computing is now available on-line
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- Copyright Statement:
(6th October '00)
There is now an online statement on copyright,
which applies to all student projects.
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- Plagiarism: (6th October
'00)
The School's policy on copying
is now available on-lin
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- CAE4 optional subjects
2000/2001: (6th October '00)
The optional subjects running for CAE this year are as follows:
CA405: Parallel and Distributed Algorithms , CA409: Databases,
CA412: Computer Graphics all timetabled on Thursdays 6:30 to 8:00
CA473: Applied Cryptographic Protocols, CA414: Multimedia Information
Systems timetabled on Thursdays 8:00 to 9:3
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- New Equipment: (14th
September '00)
220 new PCs are being stalled in the undergraduate/taught postgraduate
laboratories. The majority of these are 733 MHz Pentiums with
128 MB Ram and 10 GB disk running Wondows/NT and Solaris. These
new machines go in L101, L201, LG26, LG27 and LG28. LG01 is also
being equipped with new machines, 550 MHz Pentiums which run Wondows
NT only
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- Log File statistics
for the School of Computing Website:(8th September
'00)
Log file statistics for the School of Computing Web
site for the months of June, July and August 2000
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