Inspirefest announces first batch of headline speakers for Dublin 2017

Brenda Romero, Lero @ UL, found herself one of the unexpected stand-up comedians of Inspirefest 2016, causing much of the audience to erupt into fits of laughter as she recalled her background in gaming. Beginning her game development career in 1981, Romero was one of only five women in the industry at that time, but noted that...

New Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund Award

Congratulations to Anthony Ventresque, Lero @ UCD, who has been awarded an NIIF grant from UCD. The New Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund (NIIF) provides practical ‘seed’ support for new interdisciplinary projects and ideas that are challenging and ambitious. The title of the project is “Advancing Computational Archaeology: Onsite Digital Capture and Analysis of Megalithic” Ireland is...

Limerick selected as national case study for €500,000 Smart City project

Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, is investing €500,000 in a Science Foundation Ireland funded research project designed to develop the IT and Enterprise architecture needed to create Smart Cities of the future. Limerick has been selected as a national case study for the project. As part of the case study, researchers from Lero at...

New Software Process Improvement (SPI) Approaches:a multi-country perspective

New Software Process Improvement (SPI) Approaches:a multi-country perspective Prof Ricardo Colomo Palacios Abstract: In recent years, Software Process Improvement (SPI) has emerged as the dominant approach for delivering improvements to the software product but also to the whole IT function. SPI initiatives have been around for many years with the growing globalization of software development is...

IBM Watson IoT Hackathon Award

HiYa- How’s your auntie Bilal Ahmad (Doctoral Researcher at UL) competed in the first IBM Watson IoT Hackathon held in Portershed, Galway. His research area is Connected Smart Ageing and he used this in helping to find a design solution for the competition. Current research states social isolation and loneliness as the most critical problems...

AIS Pre-ICIS Workshop on “IoT & Smart City Challenges and Applications”

Urban IoT solutions and Smart Cities are exciting research areas and it bears historical potential for the Information Systems (IS) discipline to demonstrate their relevance. Urban IoT solutions and Smart Cities deal with the design, use and impact of information systems in our everyday working and living environment, so they affect the quality of both...

Software Engineering for Connected Health

In this Special Issue of the Journal of Software Evolution and Process, we aim to extend the Connected Health field within Software Engineering by identifying the limitations of the existing theories and to develop new or revised theories of Software Engineering for Connected Health. Thus, we seek high quality, state-of-the-art research and practice papers dealing...

Lero and UL launch online videos to help students decide if computer science is right for them

As students and parents consider their CAO options, Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre and the CSIS Department at the University of Limerick (UL) have launched a new video series entitled: “Is a Computer Science course for you?”. The goal of these six, short, video sessions (4-7 minutes each), is to help students make a...

New collaboration between Lero and Nexus to provide Mid-West start-ups and SMEs with access to world class research

Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre and Nexus Innovation Centre, the University of Limerick’s innovation centre, have announced a new collaboration which will bring world class research to start-ups and SMEs in the Mid-West region. The development is being funded under Science Foundation Ireland’s (SFI) Research Centres programme. The first two companies have recently signed...

Robots will threaten traditional occupations but technology will create new types of jobs – Lero director

Limerick; Wednesday, 8th June; 2016: While robots will take over many traditional occupations, technology will also deliver new and different job opportunities. This was stated by Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, in advance of the presentation of the organisation’s 2015 internal annual report to SFI (Science Foundation Ireland). Some...