These proceedings present selected papers from the International Business Informatics Challenge 2006. Papers include themes such as the role of information technology in business, strategic information systems planning as well as methods and techniques in IS development.

These proceedings present selected papers from the International Business Informatics Challenge 2006 as well as selected papers presented at the Business Informatics Workshop held in September 2006 at Dublin City University (Ireland). The International Business Informatics Challenge is an annual event which aims to exchange experiences and findings between students and researchers in Business Informatics and Information Systems and to encourage research in the field. With these proceedings we provide an indication of the richness of topics in Business Informatics. Papers include themes such as the role of information technology (IT) in business process management, the economical impact of IT investment in organisations, strategic information systems (IS) planning in organisations as well as methods and techniques in IS development. A balanced mix of theoretical papers and case studies is presented.

Markus Helfert, Thanh Thoa Pham Thi, Howard Duncan (eds.)
Cases and Projects in Business Informatics
Logos-Verlag, Berlin 2007
ISBN 978-3-8325-1395-5
A pre-print copy can be downloaded here.
Copyright Logos Verlag Berlin 2007.

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The final report of the Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School (ODCSSS) programme - where 16 undergraduates working in DCU and in UCD on research projects for 12 weeks this Summer, some of whom were funded by the School of Computing has now been published.

Vacancies in the ODCSSS programme were advertised on a specially created website http://www.odcsss.ie and mailing lists and targeted mailings to colleagues in Ireland, Europe and Internationally were used to advertise the programme. Even with a short application time window, by the closing date we had almost 90 applications from undergraduate students throughout the world. A panel of those involved in ODCSSS selected 17 students for the programme after independently ranking them by order according to a series of metrics including, academic results, letters of reference, statement of interest, subject match, degree match etc. All accepted and most worked for 12 weeks with different academic, postdoctoral and postgraduate researchers in the two institutions...

The full PDF of the report is available here.

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As part of our new European MSc in Business Informatics
(http://www.computing.dcu.ie/europeanmbi/), the School of Computing organised a Business Innovation and Commercialisation Workshop on Friday 13th of October. The workshop was held in Glendalough, a beautiful location in County Wicklow with a rich history. Indeed, the site grew from its beginning in the sixth century to a famous centre of learning and innovation throughout Europe. This inspiring and stimulating environment provided the ideal location for our students to work out a real and viable business idea and outline a commercialisation and business plan. The concept behind this workshop is not only about recognising good and bad ideas but also how to commercialise and promote an idea. Furthermore, the one day workshop provided a great team-building event for our students in the European MSc in Business Informatics.

Business Innovation and Commercialisation Workshop

Further details about the European MSc in Business Informatics at:
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/europeanmbi

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The School of Computing's Dr. Andy Way has just received a grant of EUR 1500 from the DCU OVPR under their International Visitors Programme to have one of the leading experts on Speech and Language Processing, Prof. Hermann Ney of RWTH Aachen visit us, probably in November 2006 and April 2007.

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