Bringing Medical Device Software Development Standards into a single model – MDevSPICE®

Dr. Fergal McCaffrey (Lero@DKIT) The global medical device market is currently valued at $315 billion and is forecast to reach $362 billion by 2015. A steady growth between 4 and 6% is expected in most countries worldwide with a particular increase in China and regions where an increasing aging population is prevalent. With remote monitoring...

Towards Enlightenment

Cloud 2014 The EVolving Open Software Systems (EVOSS) research group hosted an industry-focused event entitled ‘Cloud Computing: Towards Enlightenment’ on Friday Oct 31, 2014. Attended by 60 delegates, the event was supported by the Irish Software Research Centre (Lero), Whitaker Institute, and the Business Information Systems discipline. The highly successful event presented case studies of...

Ireland can become global Software Valley-Lero Annual Report

Increasing international pressure on corporation tax rate emphasises need to boost indigenous sector and support infrastructure for multinationals Prof. Mike Hinchey (Lero@UL) Ireland is well on the way to becoming a global software centre with major jobs potential, according to the annual report of Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre which is supported by...

€245 Million To Be Invested In Five New World-Class SFI Research Centres In Ireland

20th October 2014, Dublin: Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, and Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation Damien English TD today announced Government and industry funding of €245 million for the establishment of five new world-class SFI Research Centres in Ireland. The funding of €155 million from the Department of Jobs will...

Lero among five world-class SFI research centres to benefit from €245 million investment

Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton TD, and Minister for Skills, Research and Innovation Damien English TD have announced Government and industry funding of €245 million for the establishment of five new world-class SFI Research Centres in Ireland. Lero – The Irish Software Engineering Research Centre which is head-quartered at the University of...

Mallow Maths and Science Fair: beyond expectations

The amazing resonance between the Mallow community, industries, third level institutes, researchers and local schools continues to bring the Mallow Maths and Science Fair to levels beyond expectations. Up to 4,500 Visitors at yesterday’s fair experienced a trip to Space with Dr. Niamh Shaw’s My place in Space, a walk down the Alimentary Adventures Tunnel...

Best Paper Award at TrustCom 2014

Bashar Nuseibeh and colleagues received the “Best Paper Award” at TrustCom 2014 – the 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, held in Beijing China, 24-26th September 2014. The paper was selected from among 73 papers published at the conference (http://www.greenorbs.org/TrustCom2014/). Details: Mu Yang, Yijun Yu, Arosha Bandara and...

Applied Research in Connected Health (ARCH) Technology Centre receives €5million funding for 5 years

Lero’s Dr. Ita Richardson is Principal Investigator on the Enterprise Ireland-funded, Applied Research in Connected Health (ARCH) Technology Centre, which has received funding of €5million for 5 years.  Prof Brian Caulfield, UCD is the Academic Lead on the project, and Prof Susi Geiger, UCD is also a Principal Investigator.  The centre is industry-lead, and Ita’s...

Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas

Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas unless measures are taken to combat a skills and investment shortage, according to a new report published today. The “Irish Software Landscape”  study was conducted by Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, and the Centre...

Lero Researchers Win 9 scientific Awards so far in 2014

2014 has seen Lero resarchers win 9 scientific awards. Jesus Garcia and Liliana Pasquale won Best Paper Award at the 9th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, SEAMS co-located with ICSE 2014. Liliana aslo won the Windows Azure for Research Award, Microsoft Research’s Windows Azure for Research program. Trevour Clohessy and...