Self-driving cars look set to shake up the insurance industry.
It’s a question of relative speed. Technology just motors ahead, be it nanotechnology or automated vehicles, and governance struggles to keep pace. This is true of regulation, legal frameworks, applied ethics and indeed liability regimes. The Emerging Risk Group, based in the Department of Accounting and Finance within the Kemmy Business School at University of...
Lero researchers at NUI Galway and Valeo announce partnership on autonomous vehicles development
– Signal processing technology to help vehicles see and adapt better to complex environments– NUI Galway campus to serve as testbed Researchers from the Lero SFI Research Centre at NUI Galway have signed an autonomous vehicles R&D partnership with Valeo, the major automotive supplier headquartered in Paris, France. Funding for the programme comes from Science...
Invited Speaker – eSport
Vincent Tucker, Director of Strategy and Innovation , Logitech Date: Wednesday 28th February, 2018 Location: CSG-001, Computer Science Building, UL Time: 13.00 pm Abstract eSport in short is competitive gaming at a professional level. It not only includes video games, but pretty much any game with a winner and a loser can be played as...
SFI Investment of €4.4 Million in STEM Education and Public Engagement Projects
41 projects receive funding to improve public understanding of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and to support education initiatives for under-represented groups. A national investment of €4.4 million through Science Foundation Ireland’s Discover Programme was today announced by Minister for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD. The funding has been awarded to a...
PUBLIC LECTURE: CREATING BUSINESS VALUE FROM BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Venue: NUI Galway (North Campus, Upper Newcastle Road) – Aras Moyola Building, Lecture Theatre, Room MY243 Date: Tuesday 13th March Time: 6.00pm reception with 6.30pm (sharp) start. End 8.00pm Parking: Free parking on campus from 6.00pm No booking is required for this free event. Enquiries to denis.dennehy@nuigalway.ie Big Data MBA: How To Drive Data Monetization Bill Schmarzo, CTO, Dell...
Minister Heather Humphreys launches €14.5 million SFI research programme, ENABLE
ENABLE will engage the public in developing Internet of Things solutions for urban environments Minister for Business, Enterprise and Innovation, Heather Humphreys, T.D., together with Minister of State for Training, Skills, Research, and Development, John Halligan, T.D., have launched ENABLE – a new €14.5 million Science Foundation Ireland research programme which will examine how the...
Dairymaster, IT Tralee and Lero agree major R&D programme to develop intelligent autonomous systems and IOT technology down on the farm
Farmers could soon be able to avail of Artificial Intelligence to assist in managing their farm as a result of a new €2m Research & Development partnership announced today by Irish dairy equipment manufacturer Dairymaster, IT Tralee and Lero, the Irish Software SFI Research Centre. The programme is backed by Science Foundation Ireland. A team...
The Martian Screening – Belltable
The Martian – Science & Fiction Belltable (unallocated) Categories: Belltable, Cinema, Featured | Venue: Belltable (unallocated) Updated: January 11th, 2018 Belltable, Lero, SSPC and University of Limerick present The Martian Science & Fiction screening and post-show panel discussionmore information onhttps://www.limetreetheatre.ie/show/martian-science-fiction/
2017 IET Innovation Award for Cybersecurity
Bashar Nuseibeh together with colleagues from The Open University have won the 2017 IET Innovation Award for Cybersecurity, for their novel wearable privacy management device, “Privacy Band”. The device allows users to have discreet, real-time awareness of potential privacy threats and to control access to their data using intuitive and adaptive on-body interaction techniques. Further...
Institute of Physics award for best thesis in Computational Physics
LERO-ICHEC member, Dr. Cathal Ó Broin, has won an Institute of Physics (IoP) award for best thesis in Computational Physics. The yearly prize is awarded from the Computational Physics group (CPG) committee of the IoP. They award the prize for the thesis which they believe contributes most strongly to the advancement of computational physics. Cathal’s thesis work...