Lero researcher creates searchable site for fictional family trees
The family trees and relationships of fictional characters in movies, TV series, and books, from the Dublin streets of Joyce’s Ulysses to the cobbles of Coronation Street, are being digitally collated by researcher Dr Amin Anjomshoaa, who is attached to Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre for Software. Lero’s Dr Anjomshoaa, a Marie Curie ALECS Fellow at...
Lero at NUI Galway leads Mission to Edge of Space
Lero researchers at NUI Galway are leading a Science Foundation Ireland Discover programme team with partners University of Limerick and Met Éireann to deliver school children’s projects high into the stratosphere to examine the effects of near space on the experiments. The ‘Spaceship Earth’ project delivered two space themed workshops to primary school children in...
Commercial video games could help treat mental illness
Popular video games have the potential to provide low-cost, easy access, effective and stigma-free support for some mental health issues, researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, have found. The team at Lero, a world leader in connected-health research, said video games could be used where conventional therapies are not available...
Lero researchers create tool to assess cyber risk
A new cyber risk tool, created by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Research Centre for Software, enables large organisations to identify, assess and mitigate cyber risks, and enable insurance companies to design appropriate insurance products. The new method of assessment has been developed by Lero researchers working in the Emerging Risk Group...
GMIT joins Lero, the SFI Research Centre for Software
Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, is to expand its research capacity with the addition of GMIT as an academic partner. Hosted by University of Limerick (UL), Lero currently brings together expert software teams, from universities and institutes of technology across Ireland, in a co-ordinated centre of research excellence with a strong...
Lero Chief Scientist elected to Royal Irish Academy
Lero’s Chief Scientist Professor Bashar Nuseibeh has been elected to the Royal Irish Academy for his exceptional contribution to the sciences. Professor of Software Engineering at University of Limerick, Professor Nuseibeh is among 27 new members recognised for their contributions to research and to public service. The new RIA members include Gerard Hogan, Advocate General...
Covid-19 hit stock markets as it spread from country to country
As Covid-19 spread around the world, stock markets in individual countries took a major hit – yet stock markets in China where the disease first struck avoided significant falls – researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software found. A research paper Immune or at-risk? Stock markets and the significance of the...
Lero / OSPO Seminar 16.00pm May 4th (WET)
Lero / OSPO are delighted to present Dr. Kevin Moerman who will talk about ‘Open for Science’ Bio: Kevin is a lecturer in biomedical engineering at NUIG, and his research is focussed on computational biomechanics. He is the lead developer of the GIBBON https://www.gibboncode.org/ open source software project offering a large array of software tools...
Just one-in-five Irish computer science graduates are women
Ten thousand girls attending secondary schools throughout Ireland are being targeted to redress the gender imbalance in the take-up of Computer Science in Ireland’s third-level colleges. CodePlus, a Computer Science (CS) outreach engagement project pioneered by Trinity College Dublin, is to be rolled out across the country by Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre...
Computer games and transcranial stimulation
Listen back: Dr Mark Campbell, Director of Lero’s sSports Science Research Lab (ESRL) and Senior Lecturer in Sports Psychology at the University of Limerick joined Jonathan McCrea to discuss computer games and transcranial stimulation. Originally broadcast on Newstalk FutureProof on Sunday, 11 April, 2021. Gaming is almost unrecognisable since the days of the Sinclair ZX80...