Lero helps Ireland wins prestigious international tech conference

Limerick headquartered Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, has helped Ireland win a prestigious international technology conference. Ireland beat off stiff competition to host the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which will take place in the Convention Centre, Dublin in December 2016. An estimated 1,500 global delegates and their partners are expected...

Software chief urges changes in teaching to address gender gap in computing

Software chief urges changes in teaching to address gender gap in computing Limerick: Wednesday, 5th August, 2015: Early teaching of mathematics and technology subjects needs to be reviewed if the gender gap in technology is to be addressed. This was stated by Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre at the...

Cork primary school receives unexpected technology learning bonus

A Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research grant has resulted in an unexpected technology learning bonus for the pupils of north Cork primary school, Rockchapel. Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, is one of seven new industry-academia partnerships worth in total €480,000, which was awarded through the SFI Industry Fellowship Programme.  Lero’s project valued at almost...

Google RISE -Lero Summer Camps

Lero was one of the winners of the 2015 Google RISE Awards. The Google RISE programme is designed to support organisations that encourage girls and underrepresented students in extracurricular computer science programmes.  During June and July summer camps for girls will be hosted by Lero. The first camp took place between 17th-19th June with over...

Lero and Open University Workshop

Software engineering groups from Lero@UL and The Open University (OU), UK, met in Limerick on 14-17 June 2015 for a joint workshop on adaptive security, privacy and digital forensics. The group met to consolidate existing collaborations and to build new ones across the two sites. The workshop ended with a joint poster session open to...

ACM-AIS MSIS Curricular Review

Following a thorough preliminary evaluation, ACM and AIS (the Association for Information Systems) have decided to launch a joint process to review and revise MSIS 2006, the master’s-level curriculum recommendation for Information Systems. The process will be led by a task force consisting of two co-chairs (one from each organization) and six additional members (three...

Prof Bashar Nuseibeh Receives Distinguished Service Award

Professor Bashar Nuseibeh of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has been named as recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award by the US headquartered ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). ACM (www.acm.org) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with more than 100,000 members from industry, academia and government institutions around the...

ARCH Receives €5 million in Funding

Pictured at the launch of the new Connected Health Technology Centre were Dr Ita Richardson, UL, Richard Bruton T.D. Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation and Pat O’ Connor, Homesafe Care. The  new Applied Research for Connected Health (ARCH) Technology Centre, has received €5 million in funding from the Department of Jobs through Enterprise Ireland....

Pint of Science 2015

Pint of Science is a worldwide event where Scientists doff their white coats and take to the pub to share their research tales. Limerick is one of 50 cities in eight countries taking part in the world-wide event. The aim of Pint of Science is to deliver science talks in a fun, engaging and approachable...

Lero receives €133,000 European research grant to commercialise application to boost productivity across culturally diverse teams

New training prototype has commercial potential for global software development, sales and staff motivation Pictured at the announcement of a €133,000 research grant to Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, to commercialise an application designed to boost global collaboration were (from left) Dr Sarah Beecham, Dr John Noll and Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes. Picture: Sean Curtin...