Clare student takes top prize at 13th National Scratch Coding Competition
A County Clare student was named overall winner of the 13th annual National Scratch Coding Competition, organised by Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and the Irish Computer Society. The national finals brought together top-scoring teams from schools and clubs across the country with participants, aged six years and older, demonstrating their...
Event : Lero/FMCI workshop
Lero in conjunction with FMCI will be hosting a joint workshop on May 24th to explore the routes to funding research in connected autonomous vehicles and battery technologies in Ireland. The workshop will be held at the Future Mobility Campus (Bay 80, Shannon free Zone, Shannon, Co Clare. V14 WV82). The workshop will feature keynote...
Event : Code Plus Inspiring a new generation of women in Computer Science
Minister for Education launches four-year research partnership between Lero, MTU and Liebherr
Minister for Education, Norma Foley TD, launched a substantial four-year research partnership between Liebherr Container Cranes Ltd, Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software and Munster Technological University (MTU). The project will develop and expand Liebherr’s existing systems for ‘smart cranes’ which help to safely and efficiently move millions of shipping containers around...
New business development manager named at Lero
Lero has appointed Padraig Costello as its new business development manager. Padraig, a graduate of University College Dublin (UCD) and Technological University of the Shannon (TUS), brings with him a wide array of skills garnered over a 20-year business development career in the automotive, banking and general finance sectors. “Lero is one of the top...
Conducting Credible Societal Impact Research: Investigating the Irish IT Gender Equality Gap
This event will be delivered by Eileen M Trauth, Professor Emeritus Information Sciences & Technology Women’s, Gender & Sexuality Studies, The Pennsylvania State University, USA and Regina Connolly, Professor Information Systems, DCU Business School, Dublin City University, Ireland and Lero FI This presentation describes our research paper “Investigating the Nature of Change in Factors Affecting...
Wanted: a maps app that works inside a building
Opinion:such an innovation could hugely improve the provision of emergency medical and fire services in public buildings First published in RTÉ Brainstorm, on Thursday, 19 January, 2023. Most of us are familiar with Google Maps and have used it many times to find our way around the city or country. In fact, this app takes...
Minister Martin Heydon launches €7m Sustainable Digital and Data Research Programmes
Lero and Adapt researchers at the Innovation Value Institute (IVI) at Maynooth University will lead two sustainable digital and data research programmes launched by Minister Martin Heydon. The €7 million Digi+ and ENTRUST programmes, will focus on sustainable digital transformation and data and are funded by the European Commission under the Marie Sklowdowska-Curie programme. Digi+...
Irish tech firm secures exclusive access to IP from Lero and DCU project
Pioneering software companyfourTheorem has secured exclusive access to intellectual property rights – focusing on the application of AI in software architectural transformation – developed by Dublin City University and Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software. The deal enables fourTheorem to commercialise all Future Software Systems Architectures (FSSA) project output. The programme ‘Fission’...
Lero wins Young European Research Universities Open Science Award
Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, has been awarded a European prize recognising its commitment to open science principles. The centre launched its Open Science Charter and an Open Source and Open Science Programme Office last October. The Young European Research Universities Open Science Awards were announced on February 14 at an...