Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Programme

Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Programme Johnson and Johnson (J&J) WiSTEM2D Programme is open to female students of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Manufacturing and Design subjects entering their 2nd or 3rd year of studies 2020/2021 within the University of Limerick. J&J WiSTEM2D Individual Award provides a bursary to the value of €2000.J&J WiSTEM2D Team Project Grant...

Life with Intelligent Machines

Technology that was once the stuff of science fiction is now a reality and is evolving at a fast pace. How will this affect society? About this Event This event is jointly organised by three Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Funded Research Centres (“CONFIRM”, the SFI funded Research Centre for Smart Manufacturing, “Lero”, the SFI funded...

Minister announces funding for two Lero-led projects to respond to pressing needs arising from COVID-19

Two Lero-led projects are among those announced by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, today, as part of a €5.5 million investment under Science Foundation Ireland’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Research and Innovation Programme. Announcing the awards Minister Harris, said: “Today I am pleased to announce a further...

Researchers from five universities awarded prestigious Lero Director’s Prizes

Eight researchers from five leading Irish universities were awarded Lero Director’s Prizes at an online ceremony today. This is the second year of the annual awards presented by Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, to honour members working across its 11 academic partner institutes nationwide. Awards were presented to academics, researchers and...

How AI can lead the way in battle against Covid-19

Opinion: Artificial Intelligence can be used to predict which Coronavirus infected patient may develop severe respiratory disease First published in BusinessPost.ie, on Saturday, 29 August, 2020. The rapid emergence and spread of Covid-19 is putting health systems under unprecedented pressure, with a surge in demand for treatment, diagnosis and contact tracing to curtail the spread...

Getting to the heart of machine learning and complex humans

Profile: Abeba Birhane, PhD student at UCD’s Complex Software Lab and Lero First published in The Irish Times, on Thursday, 27 August, 2020. Abeba Birhane recently made a big discovery – that an academic library containing millions of images used to train artificial intelligence systems had privacy and ethics issues, and that it included racist,...

Lero researcher wins national athletics title

Lero researcher Stephen Gaffney won the national title in the men’s 100m race in the Athletics Ireland Irish Life Health National Senior Championships on August 23. Stephen is a Research Assistant working with Dr Anthony Ventresque in University College Dublin. Stephen runs with UCD Athletics Club and completed the race in 10.63. Please visit the...

Leverage increased social media activity for better demand forecasting

Opinion: COVID-19 has transformed customer behaviour from the way people shop to the products and services they buy. These changed shopping patterns are likely to last into the near future. They may even extend into the longer term because, on average, a new behaviour persisting for about two months becomes a habit. Retailers, if they...

Twitter and Facebook posts can predict shoppers’ intentions accurately

Large retailers, family-run enterprises and small craft stores can accurately forecast shoppers’ intentions using a social media analysis framework developed by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and Maynooth University. Prof Markus Helfert from Lero who is leading the Digital Retail Research Programme at Maynooth University said: “This information can...

Lero researchers and Motion-S receive Industrial Fellowship Award

Lero researchers Dr Barry Sheehan and Dr Finbarr Murphy of the Emerging Risk Group at University of Limerick, in collaboration with Luxembourg firm Motion-S, have been selected by the Luxembourg National Research Fund (FNR) for funding under the Industrial Fellowships Programme.  The funding will support Leandro Masello, a data scientist with Motion-S, to undertake a PhD project in co-supervision between...