Innovation and excellence in teaching and learning at DCU were celebrated at the annual Teaching and Learning Day on May 27th. The School of Computing were extremely well represented at this event with Nora Brophy picking up the President's Award for Teaching Excellence in the academic category.

The proceedings included a ceremony to recognise the individuals who were nominated for 'The President's Awards for Teaching Excellence'. Five staff were nominated in the Teaching Support category including Bipin Kumar and 11 academic staff were nominated in the Academic category including Ray Walshe.

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The graduating class of the university's B.S.c in Computer Applications degree 2008 gave open demonstrations of their final year projects following a breakfast & champagne reception.

The event provided an excellent opportunity for IT professionals and potential employers to view the high standard and broad range of development work carried out by more than seventy graduating students of Ireland's largest computing degree programme.

Over 150 people were present from industry reflecting the strong interest in DCU's computing graduates and the demand that exists for software engineering and IT graduates in Ireland.

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The School of Computing will host the European Conference on Web Services 2008 (ECOWS'08) - http://www.computing.dcu.ie/ecows08/ - which will take place in Dublin, Ireland from November 12th to the 14th, 2008.

The European Conference on Web Services (ECOWS) is the premier conference in Europe for both researchers and practitioners to exchange the latest advances in the state of the art and practices of Web Services. The main objectives of this conference are to facilitate the exchange between researchers and practitioners and to foster future collaborations in Europe and beyond.

The ECOWS conference will be chaired by Dr. Claus Pahl (DCU) as General Chair and Dr. Siobhán Clarke (Trinity College Dublin) and Dr. Rik Eshuis (Eindhoven University of Technology) as Programme Committee Chairs.

Further details is available at: http://www.computing.dcu.ie/ecows08/

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Preliminary results from a DCU survey indicate that job vacancies in the I.T. sector have almost doubled in the past two years. Most of these positions are advertised on the World Wide Web, where the number of advertisements in the I.T. sector are now in excess of 22,800, compared to 16,300 in January 2007 and 11,000 in January 2006.

The table below shows the steady growth in posts being advertised and the estimated actual job vacancies which these represent. The differences between the two figures are due to some jobs being advertised more than once, and some advertisements being for multiple jobs.

	May 05	Jan 06	May 06	Jan 07	May 07	Mar 08
I.T. job advertisements	9,500+	10,896+	13,468+	16,310+	21,657+	22,809+
I.T. job vacancies(est.)	8,100	9,300	11,400	13,900	17,400	18,100

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Joseph Harkins, (16), a transition year student from St Joseph's Secondary School, Rush won the first prize of a Dell laptop computer for the best website on DCU's transition year computing course. Compute TY is now in its fourth year running at DCU's School of Computing and its popularity continues to grow: the intake was up 50% from last year to 750 students.

It is a week long course where transition year students learn to create and design their own websites on a topic of their own choice. Claire Maher from Manor House School, Raheny, won the runner up prize of an Apple iPod Shuffle. Lero - the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, Dell and Microsoft all sponsored Compute TY.

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The School of Computing will host the EuroSPI Doctoral Symposium
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~roconnor/eurospi-doctoral.html which will take place in conjunction with the 15th European Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation Conference (EuroSPI 2008) http://2008.eurospi.net/, to be held in Dublin, Ireland from September 3rd to the 5th, 2008.

The EuroSPI Doctoral Symposium will provide an opportunity for graduate students to present and explore their research interests under the guidance of a panel of distinguished experts in the field. The EuroSPI Doctoral Symposium is intended to bring together Ph.D. students within the Systems & Software Process Improvement and Innovation field to discuss their research in an international forum.

The EuroSPI Doctoral Symposium will be jointly chaired by Dr. Rory O'Connor (DCU) and Dr Fergal McCaffery (Lero).

Further details is available at:
http://www.computing.dcu.ie/~roconnor/eurospi-doctoral.html

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Lero@DCU is participating in the EU funded research project MASTER. This 3 year project is researching techniques and tools for managing assurance, security and trust in service based systems.

MASTER aims at providing methodologies and infrastructures that facilitate the monitoring, enforcement, and audit of quantifiable indicators on the security of a business process, and that provide manageable assurance of the security levels, trust levels and regulatory compliance of highly dynamic service-oriented architecture in centralized, distributed (multidomain), and outsourcing contexts.

Lero@DCU, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, advances the state-of-the-art in software engineering for specific domains. Lero is a partnership of academic researchers and industry and is supported by Science Foundation Ireland.

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Liam Cronin, John Tinsley Gavin O'Gorman, Bipin Kumar, Aiden Doherty and Andy Way

In 1995, Microsoft Corporation together with a US-based philanthropic trust established an endowment fund to support postgraduate research scholarships within the School of Computing at DCU.

The scholarship provides additional financial support for postgraduate research students carrying out excellent research. The research involved may be, but is not necessarily, in an area aligned with Microsoft Corporation's business interest.

The School of Computing, on behalf of the endowment, awards the scholarship to suitable students on an annual basis. The recipients of the scholarship are expected to provide a brief report on their research during their year in receipt of the scholarship, and to make a short presentation to the school.

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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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