Mallow Maths and Science Fair: beyond expectations
The amazing resonance between the Mallow community, industries, third level institutes, researchers and local schools continues to bring the Mallow Maths and Science Fair to levels beyond expectations. Up to 4,500 Visitors at yesterday’s fair experienced a trip to Space with Dr. Niamh Shaw’s My place in Space, a walk down the Alimentary Adventures Tunnel...
Best Paper Award at TrustCom 2014
Bashar Nuseibeh and colleagues received the “Best Paper Award” at TrustCom 2014 – the 13th IEEE International Conference on Trust, Security and Privacy in Computing and Communications, held in Beijing China, 24-26th September 2014. The paper was selected from among 73 papers published at the conference (http://www.greenorbs.org/TrustCom2014/). Details: Mu Yang, Yijun Yu, Arosha Bandara and...
Applied Research in Connected Health (ARCH) Technology Centre receives €5million funding for 5 years
Lero’s Dr. Ita Richardson is Principal Investigator on the Enterprise Ireland-funded, Applied Research in Connected Health (ARCH) Technology Centre, which has received funding of €5million for 5 years. Prof Brian Caulfield, UCD is the Academic Lead on the project, and Prof Susi Geiger, UCD is also a Principal Investigator. The centre is industry-lead, and Ita’s...
Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas
Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas unless measures are taken to combat a skills and investment shortage, according to a new report published today. The “Irish Software Landscape” study was conducted by Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, and the Centre...
Lero Researchers Win 9 scientific Awards so far in 2014
2014 has seen Lero resarchers win 9 scientific awards. Jesus Garcia and Liliana Pasquale won Best Paper Award at the 9th International Symposium on Software Engineering for Adaptive and Self-Managing Systems, SEAMS co-located with ICSE 2014. Liliana aslo won the Windows Azure for Research Award, Microsoft Research’s Windows Azure for Research program. Trevour Clohessy and...
Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas
Thousands of Irish software jobs could be forced overseas unless measures are taken to combat a skills and investment shortage, according to a new report published today. The “Irish Software Landscape” study was conducted by Lero – the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre; the Kemmy Business School at the University of Limerick, and the Centre...
SFI Industry Fellowship of €110,000 Awarded to Anthony Ventresque
Dr Anthony Ventresque has been awarded an SFI Industry Fellowship of €110,000 to work in collaboration with IBM Research Lab in Dublin on performance improvement of Urban Mobility Simulation. This project is related to the fast and accurate simulation of what-if scenarios in the application area of Smarter Transportation. Transport Mobility Simulation is a very...
Industry Impact Award
Trevor Clohessy, PhD student with the EVOSS research group, won the Industry Impact Award as part of NUI Galway President’s Research Awards for Research at the University’s Research Showcase, for his work entitled ‘Strategising Cloud Service Provision: Deciphering the Business Model’. Trevor is part of Whitaker and Lero’s EVOSS group led by Dr. Kieran Conboy,...
Lero presence at EuroSPI conference
Another strong year for Lero at EuroSPI conference. Last week at the 21th European Conference on Systems, Software and Services Process Improvement (EuroSPI 2014) Lero affiliated authors presented a total of 9 papers, with 6 paper in research track (published by Springer Verlag) and 3 papers in the industry experience track (published by Publizon). Those...
Lero wins industry commitments of over €400,000 for software modernisation programmes
Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre, which is supported by Science Foundation Ireland, has won industry commitments worth in excess of €400,000 for software modernisation programmes. “The reality is that there is a lot of old software out there which is still at the heart of many critical applications, particularly in the area of...