Minister O’Sullivan launches expanded national Science Foundation Ireland software research centre in €46.4m investment
Ms Jan O’Sullivan TD, Minister for Education and Skills, today formally launched an expanded Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Irish Software Research Centre, at the University of Limerick in a €46.4 million investment over six years. The development means that 90 PhD and 46 postdoctoral research positions will be created over the next six years,...
Lero Technology Workshops
Lero members Fayola Peters, Solomon Gizaw, Anila Mjeda, Frederik Gossen and Clare McInerney ran Technology Workshops on Monday and Wednesday November 9th and 11th for Science Week. The visiting primary school children played with Lego WeDo, Lego Mindstorms, NAO Robot, Scratch, LightBot and 3D visualization tools. The workshops were fully booked out and students were...
Blockchain Hackathon
Quentin and Takfarinas won the third prize at the biggest Blockchain Hackathon (https://blockchain-hackathon.com/) in Europe which happened in Dublin between the 6th and 8th November with a project called “Open Charity”, a safe, decentralized system allowing to issue IOUs (“I Owe You” tokens) for the benefit of Charity. The project was designed to facilitate the request...
Showcase of Irish Science and Technology
To mark the 20th annual Science Week, which takes place from the 8th – 15th November, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. attended a showcase of Irish science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) at Government Buildings on Thursday Nov 5th. The event provided an insight into the inspirational and important scientific work being carried out across...
EU Code Week
As part of EU Code Week in October Lero hosted two programming workshops in St. Mary’s Secondary School, Corbally Limerick and in Presentation Convent Mitchelstown Cork. Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way.
Irish software Professor to head global technology association
Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre – has been elected President-Elect of IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing). Limerick-born Professor Hinchey will be the first Irishman to be elected President of the organisation since it was established under the auspices of UNESCO in 1960. IFIP is the global...
Best Papers at FASSI 2015 for Lero Members
Best paper awards have been presented to Dr Fergal McCaffery and Dr Silvana Togneri MacMahon from Lero @ DkIT for papers presented at The First International Conference on Fundamentals and Advances in Software Systems Integration (FASSI) Conference 2015. Dr McCaffery’s paper was entitled ‘Medical Device Software as a Subsystem of an Overall Medical Device’. ‘Dr...
Director of Lero Elected President of IFIP
At its General Assembly, 9 October 2015 in Daejeon, Korea, IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing) elected Prof. Mike Hinchey as its 18th President. Hinchey will serve as President-Elect until the next General Assembly (San Jose, Costa Rica, September 2016) following which he will assume a 3-year term as President. About IFIP IFIP, the...
International honour for Irish software chief
Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society. Limerick born Professor Hinchey, who is the first non-Brazilian to be appointed to the role, continues as head of Lero. The online open access journal, which is published in English by...
Lero backs computers in schools following mixed OECD report findings
Lero backs computers in schools following mixed OECD report findings Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has stated that international media coverage of this week’s OECD report distorts the value of computers in schools. “The danger is that Irish policy makers, parents and teachers misinterpret the findings which would damage Ireland’s goal of building a...