Professor Joseph van Genabith

School of Computing and Dublin City University is to lead a multi-million euro research partnership funded by Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) that will develop the next generation of high tech automatic language translation.

This five-year research programme will transform an important sector of Ireland's global software business - localisation - as well as a key driver of the global content distribution industry.

DCU is collaborating in the project with academic partners, UCD, UL and TCD, and with renowned global technology leaders, IBM, Microsoft, Symantec, Dai Nippon Printing, and Idiom Technologies as well as key Irish SMEs, Alchemy, VistaTech, SpeechStorm and Traslan.

The Minister for Enterprise and Employment, Michael Martin, today announced the award of €16.8m to the project by SFI, and the industry partners are contributing €13.6m in materials, research services and additional funding.

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From front to back - Dr. Cathal Gurrin, Professor Alan Smeaton, Dr. Noel O'Connor

School of Computing researchers are working with the Research Department of US Multinational Microsoft using a wearable miniature camera - a SensCam - to provide a searchable digital picture diary of a person's entire day.

These cameras are so small they can be designed into jewellery, buttons or broaches to be unobtrusive or hidden.

This project in the Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC) at DCU is part of a larger programme at Microsoft Research to record people's "life logs", and with the success of the research at Dublin City University so far, Microsoft is now expanding the Irish programme.

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View the RTE Six One News piece here

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The European MSc in Business Informatics offers a new full-time intake in February 2008. Applications are invited to the online Postgraduate Application Systems (www.pac.ie).

The European M.Sc. in Business Informatics programme at Dublin City University was established to help young, ambitious computing professionals and graduates to develop practical skills along with a solid foundation in management and business theory. DCU's European M.Sc. in Business Informatics has a strong international focus, culminating in students spending the summer months undertaking a research project in a European country. No other MBI programme is like ours - global studies from a European viewpoint.

Further details is available at: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/europeanmbi

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Students from the Hasso-Plattner-Institut Potsdam in Germany have won the PriceWaterhouseCoopers Best Paper Award for the best submission to the International Business Informatics Challenge and Conference 2007. The research on 'eWarenhaus Berlin - The future procurement system of the capital' was completed by Christian Holz, Falko Menge, Johannes Nicolai, Johannes Passing and Matthias Weidlich. The work was selected as best submission considering selection criteria such as relevance for Business Informatics, importance of topic, originality of work, and presentation and clarity and relevance for practice. All submitted full papers to the International Business Informatics Challenge and Conference were reviewed by an international committee.

The International Business Informatics Challenge and Conference is an annual student competition and international conference, which is organised by the Business Informatics Group at DCU School of Computing. It is held in conjunction with DCU's new European MSc in Business Informatics. The international workshop was held on Wednesday, 19th September 2007 in DCU's Invent centre at Dublin City University. Further details visit: http://www.businessinformatics-challenge.org/

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The School of Computing will host 15th European Software Process Improvement Conference (EuroSPI 2008) from 3rd to 5th of September 2008.

EuroSPI conferences present and discuss results from software process improvement (SPI) projects in industry and research, focusing on the benefits gained and the criteria for success. Leading European universities, research canters, and industry are contributing to and participating in this event. EuroSPI 2008 will be the 15th of a series of conferences to which international researchers contribute their lessons learned and share their knowledge as they work towards the next higher level of software management professionalism. The conference will be jointly chaired by Dr. Rory O'Connor (DCU) and Dr Nathan Baddoo (University of Hertfordshire).

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Professor Michael Ryan of DCU's School of Computing has been shortlisted in nomination for the 50 Years of Computing in Ireland Awards. Prof.Michael Ryan has been selected by an expert panel as a shortlisted nominee for an IT Pioneer Award. This is due largely to Professor Ryan's establishment and shaping of the computing degree programmes at DCU and the unique role he has played in the promotion of public understanding about careers in computing.

The 50 Years of Computing in Ireland Awards will celebrate the 50th anniversary of the first computer installation in Ireland by recognising key individuals who have made an outstanding contribution to the advancement of computing in Ireland The awards are co-presented by the Irish Computer Society and the Belfast Branch of the British Computer Society.

Five award winners for the Republic will be announced at the 50 Years of Computing in Ireland dinner on Thursday, 20 September 2007 at the new Radisson SAS Royal Dublin Hotel (off Camden Street area). Tickets for the awards dinner are priced at 120euro for individuals or 1,200 euro for tables of 10.

For more information see: http://www.ics.ie/50YearsAwards or else please contact Julie Ann Ennis at

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