Video: Anthony Ventresque on chatbots for education

The winners of the 2019 US-Ireland Research Innovation Awards will be announced on May 17. A project led by Dr Anthony Ventresque, a Lero researcher at University College Dublin (UCD), using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help improve the lives of millions of refugees, has been shortlisted for the prestigious awards. The project is a...

Tech Excellence Awards

A Lero team has been shortlisted for the 2019, Tech Excellence Awards. Manoj Kesavulu, Markus Helfert and the Usage Analytics Group at Lero, DCU have made the final in the very competitive Private Sector Project of the Year category. The Project of the Year Awards recognise technology projects that have delivered outstanding operational and competitive...

Running to go backwards: The problem with productivity apps

Lero research shows time management technologies often damage productivity and increase the stresses and anxieties they were designed to allay.  First published in the Irish Times, Friday, April 5, 2019 Faster, faster, faster There is a rarely questioned assumption that our world is aggressively faster, more evanescent, than ever before. Healthcare staff face well-documented time...

Lero chief is first Irish president of Association for Information Systems

Professor Brian Fitzgerald, director of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has been elected president of the international Association for Information Systems (AIS). He is the first Irish person to be elected to the role and will serve a three-year term. Headquartered in Atlanta, USA, the AIS is a global professional association for individuals and...

Future of Fintech Workshop

Experts and leaders in Fintech, Artificial Intelligence, and Compliance will come together for an engaging day of Future of Fintech, Impact of Digitalisation and Brexit on Fintech discussions on Friday March 29th 2019 at Dublin City University Innovation Campus Auditorium (Old Finglas Road 11, Glasnevin, Co. Dublin). The workshop will provide insights into current research, approaches in industry, address impactful innovations...

Minister Bruton announces Lero research programme with Microsoft to boost online educational opportunities for refugees

Minister for Communications, Climate Action and Environment, Richard Bruton T.D., today announced the renewal of an international research contract between Microsoft and Lero, the SFI Irish Software Research Centre and University College Dublin (UCD), designed to help refugees in the Middle East access relevant education courses online. Under the programme, which uses the latest in...

AI for Good Project Shortlisted for US-Ireland Research Innovation Award

A project led by a Lero researcher at University College Dublin (UCD) using artificial intelligence (AI) technologies to help improve the lives of millions of young people, who have been displaced in areas of conflict around the world, has been shortlisted for a 2019 US-Ireland Research Innovation Award. Conflict-affected youth in Lebanon interacting with and...

Second phase of computer coding initiative at Junior Cycle level announced

– Junior Cycle coding provides valuable foundation for developing ICT skills at Leaving and third level A pilot programme to help schools introduce coding at Junior Cycle is to be extended to a second phase from September 2019, Minister for Education and Skills Joe McHugh T.D. has announced today. An interim review of the Junior...

NSAI 1997 award for Lero researcher

Lero researcher at Dundalk Institute of Technology Dr Silvana Togneri MacMahon was awarded the NSAI 1997 award at the NSAI Annual Standards Forum. The award is given in recognition of exceptional dedication to standards development. Dr MacMahon acted as International Project Leader, Author and Editor if ISO TR 80001-2-7 which allows Healthcare Delivery Organisation assess...

Lero selected to participate in €15m EU cybersecurity research project

Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, which is backed by Science Foundation Ireland, has been selected to participate in a €15m European Commission cybersecurity research project.  Lero researchers Dr Liliana Pasquale of UCD and Professor Bashar Nuseibeh of University of Limerick will head the Irish team for the CyberSec4Europe 42-month project which was launched in...