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NEWS (Semester 2, 2002/2003)

 
  • EXCITING NEW TAUGHT POSTGRAD PROGRAMMES FOR AUTUMN 2003
    The School of Computing is to launch new one year full-time MSc programmes in the expanding areas of Bioinformatics and Security & Forensic Computing (subject to Validation). With the first intake of students in September 2003, these are additional to the School's existing Grad Dip/MSc in IT and MSc in E-Commerce programmes. The two new programmes have been specifically designed to produce graduates with the personal and professional skills required to prosper in these growing industries. Significantly, the MSc in Bioinformatics also comes with major funding support for EU students.
    In addition to these programmes, the DCU School of Computing, in conjunction with DCU Business School is to launch a new two-year part-time MSc in E-Commerce(Corporate) at Citywest.
    With a practical, industry-oriented focus and excellent graduate employment prospects, DCU will be the only university in the Republic of Ireland to offer taught MSc programmes in these exciting areas.
  • Class of 2003 - Final Year Project Display: (20th May '03)
    On Friday June 6th 2003, the School of Computing invites you to the Final Year Project Display for the graduating Classes of 2003, kindly sponsored by the Centre for Software Engineering. The afternoon will begin with a wine reception held in the The HUB bar at 3.00. pm and then projects will be displayed after the reception on the first floor of the School of Computing. The School of Computing is well known for its strong relationship with industry and this annual display provides an opportunity for the industrial and business community to see the standard and range of development work carried out by the students.
    A functional summary of a few of the Final Year Projects that are on display can be seen here.
  • Controlled Language Translation Conference: (7th May '03)
    From May 15th to 17th 2003, Dublin City University will host an international conference on Controlled Language Translation. This unique conference brings together the 8th International Workshop of the European Association for Machine Translation and the 4th Controlled Language Applications Workshop, and, as its name suggests, has a double focus.
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  • Enterprise Ireland Awards: (24th April '03)
    The School has won funding to the value of more than a half million Euro in the latest Enterprise Ireland Basic Research awards. Four research projects are to be funded, more than any other computing school nationally.

    1. Alan Smeaton - "GenIRL: Genomic Information Retrieval using Links"
    2. Andy Way - "BoostTrans: Boosting the Performance of Wide-Coverage Machine Translation Systems"
    3. Mark Roantree - "X-LIM: Xquery for Large-Scale Integration Methods"
    4. Rosemary Monaghan - "TOOLAP: A Tool for Developing Object-Oriented Software"
  • Fourth Year Project - Medal and Prize: (16th April '03)
    Fidelity Investments' GIFT Programme is sponsoring a prize this year for the most outstanding project in Computer Applications. The prize is worth EUR650 for each member of the winning team.
    Criteria:The prize is for the best project overall submitted as a Final Year Project, by CACS4, CAIS4 or CASE4 students.
    Judging:Projects will be judged by the staff of the School of Computer Applciations. In effect, the prize will be won by the project acheiving the highest marks.
    Presentation:The prize and medal (which will be inscribed with the winner's name) will be presented at the annual CA project presentation day.
  • Vision/DCU New Business Ideas Competition 2003: (10th April '03)
    The Vision/DCU New Business Ideas Competition 2003 awards ceremony took place in the Invent Centre last week. The competition, open to both postgraduate and undergraduate students, was set up to encourage entrepreneurial spirit within DCU. The essence of the competition is to show that a real business opportunity has been identified and verified, and an innovative product or service has been developed from this opportunity. Two of the three winning business ideas came from groups within the School of Computing.
  • CA PhD Student Wins Prestigious IBM Fellowship: (14th March '03)
    Nano Gough has been awarded a prestigious IBM Fellowship, one of only two awarded in Ireland. Congratulations to Nano, and to Andy Way her supervisor. You can read more at the IBM website www.ibm.com/university/phdfellowship
  • Dr. Claus Pahl awarded in Office of Teaching and Learning Scheme: (10th March '03)
    Computer Applications lecturer Claus Pahl is one of just three winners in the DCU Teaching and Learning Fellowship Scheme. He has been awarded a grant of Eu 20,000 over two years to develop the use of web technologies in facilitating so-called "authentic learning" which is a constructivist problem-based form of teaching and learning. More details are available at http://odtl.dcu.ie/tlf/2002-2003/fellowship-0-awards/ref4/application.html
    It is the 8th time Claus has received an award from the Office of Teaching and Learning.
  • Prof. Alan Smeaton wins President's Research Award 2003: (24th Febuary '03)
    The President's research award in Science and Engineering has gone to Prof. Alan Smeaton of the School of Computing for his significant contribution to research in information retrieval and mult-media content management. The award will be marked by an event on Tuesday, 11th March, 2003 in the Postgraduate Centre in DCU at which Prof. Smeaton will deliver a talk on his work entitled "Bridging the gap to people's information needs".
  • CA School receives Four Project Awards: (12th Febuary '03)
    The School has been awarded four Small Project awards from the Univerity's Teaching and Learning Fund. The successful applicants were Charlie Daly(twice), so a big "well done" to them. Their projects are very interesting and have wider applicability than the particular modules for which they are funded. We hope to create opportinities to make use of them in the day-to-day running of the School. More details on these projects are available from the Office of the Dean of Teaching and Learning (ODTL)
  • Networking Society talk on Cybernetics: (5th Febuary '03)
    DCU's Networking Society has organised Professor Kevin Warwick from University of Reading, UK, to come here to DCU to give a talk on Cybernetics and Artificial Intelligence. It is on in the Venue, in the Hub,on Wednesday the 19th of February at 10 O'Clock and there is no charge.