Congratulations to the Scratch National Finals Winners!
The National Scratch Coding Competition was held in the Kemmy Business School, at the University of Limerick, last Wednesday April 25th as part of Tech Week 2018. 32 of the top scoring teams across the categories were invited to show their mettle to the judges. Visit Scratch.ie for more information about scratch and the scratch...
Lero named as winner of prestigious global award
– International body recognises SFI research centre industry collaboration Lero has been named as winner of the 2018 award for industry collaboration by the global IEEE Computer Society. This is the first time the IEEE Computer Society Technical Council on Software Engineering (TCSE) Distinguished Synergy Award has come to Ireland. Previous winners include IBM Center...
Lero Phd Students receive grant for training during Health Informatics Week
Raja Manzar Abbas and Bilal Ahmad from Lero@UL have received a grant worth €1400 approximately to participate in a training school during Health Informatics Week. The course is organised by the ENJECT (European Network for the Joint Evaluation of Connected Health Technologies) Cost Action in conjunction with the CHESS (Connected Health Early Stage Researcher Support System) and...
Lero Phd Students receive grant for training during Health Informatics Week
Raja Manzar Abbas and Bilal Ahmad from Lero@UL have received a grant worth €1400 approximately to participate in a training school during Health Informatics Week. The course is organised by the ENJECT (European Network for the Joint Evaluation of Connected Health Technologies) Cost Action in conjunction with the CHESS (Connected Health Early Stage Researcher Support System) and...
iGov – Delivering Public Services Using The Blockchain
Speaker Bios Prof. Brian Fitzgerald Brian Fitzgerald is Director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre. He also holds an endowed professorship, the Krehbiel Chair in Innovation in Business & Technology, at the University of Limerick, and served as Vice President Research at UL from 2008-2011. His publications include 15 books, and over 150 peer-reviewed articles in the leading international...
Self-driving cars look set to shake up the insurance industry.
It’s a question of relative speed. Technology just motors ahead, be it nanotechnology or automated vehicles, and governance struggles to keep pace. This is true of regulation, legal frameworks, applied ethics and indeed liability regimes. The Emerging Risk Group, based in the Department of Accounting and Finance within the Kemmy Business School at University of...
Lero researchers at NUI Galway and Valeo announce partnership on autonomous vehicles development
– Signal processing technology to help vehicles see and adapt better to complex environments– NUI Galway campus to serve as testbed Researchers from the Lero SFI Research Centre at NUI Galway have signed an autonomous vehicles R&D partnership with Valeo, the major automotive supplier headquartered in Paris, France. Funding for the programme comes from Science...
Invited Speaker – eSport
Vincent Tucker, Director of Strategy and Innovation , Logitech Date: Wednesday 28th February, 2018 Location: CSG-001, Computer Science Building, UL Time: 13.00 pm Abstract eSport in short is competitive gaming at a professional level. It not only includes video games, but pretty much any game with a winner and a loser can be played as...
SFI Investment of €4.4 Million in STEM Education and Public Engagement Projects
41 projects receive funding to improve public understanding of science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) and to support education initiatives for under-represented groups. A national investment of €4.4 million through Science Foundation Ireland’s Discover Programme was today announced by Minister for Training, Skills, Innovation, Research and Development, John Halligan TD. The funding has been awarded to a...
PUBLIC LECTURE: CREATING BUSINESS VALUE FROM BUSINESS ANALYTICS
Venue: NUI Galway (North Campus, Upper Newcastle Road) – Aras Moyola Building, Lecture Theatre, Room MY243 Date: Tuesday 13th March Time: 6.00pm reception with 6.30pm (sharp) start. End 8.00pm Parking: Free parking on campus from 6.00pm No booking is required for this free event. Enquiries to denis.dennehy@nuigalway.ie Big Data MBA: How To Drive Data Monetization Bill Schmarzo, CTO, Dell...