Ireland selected to manage new €3.6 million EU software research programme

Ireland has been selected to manage a new €3.6 million EU fellowship programme for international software researchers. ALECS (Advanced Learning in Evolving Critical Systems) will be co-ordinated by UL and Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. The initiative is being funded by the EC under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie programme and by Science Foundation Ireland through...

ALECS and PERFORM Launch

ALECS AND PERFORM LAUNCH

Minister Halligan launches new professional doctorate

Lero – the Irish Software SFI Research Centre and the University of Limerick (UL) have announced a new programme which will allow employees study for the equivalent of a PhD without having to give up their jobs.  The initiative, which is a first for the software industry in Ireland, aims to have up to 80...

Lero researchers to head €3.8 million EU programme

Goal is to establish training and research network for next generation European digital retail managers Lero researchers at Dublin City University are to head a new €3.8 million EU programme designed to enable European high street and online retailers counter the competitive threat posed by foreign global players such as Amazon and eBay. Lero, the...

Annual Lero-Open University Research Workshop held in Limerick

Research teams from The Open University’s Software Engineering & Design (SEAD) research group and Lero’s Security, Privacy, Adaptation & Requirements Engineering (SPARE) research group met at the University of Limerick (UL) for their annual “away days” research workshop on 17-20 July 2017. The workshop programme  included working groups discussing software engineering, security, privacy and digital...

Lero DkIT spinout company Nova Leah to create 78 jobs

Medical device cybersecurity company targets $50 billion global connected medical device market   Lero researchers from the Regulated Research Centre at Dundalk Institute of Technology have launched a new medical device cybersecurity company that plans to create 78 jobs over the next four years. The Lero DkIT spinout company, Nova Leah (www.novaleah.com) has developed an expert...

Lero PhD student wins commercialisation award for Cloud9

Cloud9, an early-stage big data venture, has won a University College Dublin (UCD) commercialisation award. Cloud9 is developing a new software service to enable organisations to effectively and efficiently desensitise personal data in-house before uploading it securely to the cloud for processing.The founder of Cloud9 is Vanessa Ayala-Rivera, a PhD student with Lero, based in...

Irish research programme to investigate if new social media platform can address challenges and opportunities for those aged 50+

– Lero programme seeks volunteers aged 50+ to participate – “More than a LinkedIn, Facebook or online water cooler for all aged 50+” Lero, IBM Ireland and ISAX (Ireland Smart Ageing Exchange) have announced a two year research programme which could result in a new social media platform which would allow older people to offer...

Lero research highlights need to build in forensics to identify cause of cyber attacks and catch the perpetrators

– Study launched on back of recent global cyber attack Dr George Grispos of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre New research from Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, finds that many organisations are failing to consider the threat of cyber attacks when they design and develop software systems. The news follows on from the...

DCU Presidents Award for Industrial Engagements

Dr Marksu Helfert (Project Leader), Marija Bezbradica and Manoj Kesavulu have received the prestigious DCU Presidents Award for Industrial Engagement for their project with IBM on “Usage Analytics – User level SaaS-based Usage Analytics”. The project goal is to investigate user-level usage analysis in cloud systems analysing customer usage data. The team investigates approaches for...