Majority of Irish people favour national ID card and e-voting from home in future elections and referendums

A nationwide survey by Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, has found that 58% of the Irish population would support electronic voting from home in elections and referendums and an even greater number, 69%, favour the introduction of a national identity card. Lero, a world leader in data privacy and cybersecurity research, commissioned...

Lero expands it research capacity with LIT partnership

Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, is to expand its research capacity and skills base with the addition of Limerick Institute of Technology (LIT) as an academic partner. Hosted by University of Limerick (UL) Lero currently brings together expert software teams, from universities and institutes of technology across Ireland, in a co-ordinated...

Lero winner of prestigious 2020 SFI Award

Lero researcher Professor Fergal McCaffery and Dr Anita Finnegan, co-founders of NovaLeah, were announced as winners of prestigious 2020 Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Awards. The awards were presented by Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris TD, at the annual SFI Science Summit which took place virtually for the first...

Machine Learning: How it works!

Workshop Dates:Tuesday Nov 10th 11-11:45Wednesday Nov 11th 11-11:45Thursday Nov 12th 11-11:45 Target Audience:Second-level students aged 14-18  What’s needed:Access to web accessible device such as a phone, tablet, PC, chromebook. Workshop will be delivered online via zoom. Students will also need a pen and paper. Zoom link with be shared with class teacher before workshop. Workshop...

Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Programme

Johnson and Johnson WiSTEM2D Programme Johnson and Johnson (J&J) WiSTEM2D Programme is open to female students of Science, Technology, Engineering, Mathematics, Manufacturing and Design subjects entering their 2nd or 3rd year of studies 2020/2021 within the University of Limerick. J&J WiSTEM2D Individual Award provides a bursary to the value of €2000.J&J WiSTEM2D Team Project Grant...

Life with Intelligent Machines

Technology that was once the stuff of science fiction is now a reality and is evolving at a fast pace. How will this affect society? About this Event This event is jointly organised by three Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) Funded Research Centres (“CONFIRM”, the SFI funded Research Centre for Smart Manufacturing, “Lero”, the SFI funded...

Minister announces funding for two Lero-led projects to respond to pressing needs arising from COVID-19

Two Lero-led projects are among those announced by the Minister for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science, Simon Harris, TD, today, as part of a €5.5 million investment under Science Foundation Ireland’s COVID-19 Rapid Response Research and Innovation Programme. Announcing the awards Minister Harris, said: “Today I am pleased to announce a further...

Researchers from five universities awarded prestigious Lero Director’s Prizes

Eight researchers from five leading Irish universities were awarded Lero Director’s Prizes at an online ceremony today. This is the second year of the annual awards presented by Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software, to honour members working across its 11 academic partner institutes nationwide. Awards were presented to academics, researchers and...

How AI can lead the way in battle against Covid-19

Opinion: Artificial Intelligence can be used to predict which Coronavirus infected patient may develop severe respiratory disease First published in BusinessPost.ie, on Saturday, 29 August, 2020. The rapid emergence and spread of Covid-19 is putting health systems under unprecedented pressure, with a surge in demand for treatment, diagnosis and contact tracing to curtail the spread...

Getting to the heart of machine learning and complex humans

Profile: Abeba Birhane, PhD student at UCD’s Complex Software Lab and Lero First published in The Irish Times, on Thursday, 27 August, 2020. Abeba Birhane recently made a big discovery – that an academic library containing millions of images used to train artificial intelligence systems had privacy and ethics issues, and that it included racist,...