Lero chief to raise concerns about Artificial Intelligence at global conference

Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems will be the focus when Professor Mike Hinchey, president of the global ICT professional association, IFIP (International Federation for Information Processing) presents at this week’s ITU World Telecommunication Standardisation Assembly (WTSA-16) in Tunisia. Professor Hinchey, Director of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, who has worked with AI systems for over...

46th Annual Frontiers in Education Confernce

Developments in Global Software Engineering Education – Panel Pictured from left to right, FIE panel members:   Michael J Oudshoorn (Wentworth Institute of Technology); John Noll (Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre ), Tony Clear (Auckland University of Technology); John Barr (Ithaca College, USA); Sarah Beecham (Lero, the Irish software Research Centre) Mats Daniels (Uppsala University)...

Inspirefest announces first batch of headline speakers for Dublin 2017

Brenda Romero, Lero @ UL, found herself one of the unexpected stand-up comedians of Inspirefest 2016, causing much of the audience to erupt into fits of laughter as she recalled her background in gaming. Beginning her game development career in 1981, Romero was one of only five women in the industry at that time, but noted that...

New Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund Award

Congratulations to Anthony Ventresque, Lero @ UCD, who has been awarded an NIIF grant from UCD. The New Interdisciplinary Initiatives Fund (NIIF) provides practical ‘seed’ support for new interdisciplinary projects and ideas that are challenging and ambitious. The title of the project is “Advancing Computational Archaeology: Onsite Digital Capture and Analysis of Megalithic” Ireland is...

Limerick selected as national case study for €500,000 Smart City project

Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, is investing €500,000 in a Science Foundation Ireland funded research project designed to develop the IT and Enterprise architecture needed to create Smart Cities of the future. Limerick has been selected as a national case study for the project. As part of the case study, researchers from Lero at...

New Software Process Improvement (SPI) Approaches:a multi-country perspective

New Software Process Improvement (SPI) Approaches:a multi-country perspective Prof Ricardo Colomo Palacios Abstract: In recent years, Software Process Improvement (SPI) has emerged as the dominant approach for delivering improvements to the software product but also to the whole IT function. SPI initiatives have been around for many years with the growing globalization of software development is...

IBM Watson IoT Hackathon Award

HiYa- How’s your auntie Bilal Ahmad (Doctoral Researcher at UL) competed in the first IBM Watson IoT Hackathon held in Portershed, Galway. His research area is Connected Smart Ageing and he used this in helping to find a design solution for the competition. Current research states social isolation and loneliness as the most critical problems...

AIS Pre-ICIS Workshop on “IoT & Smart City Challenges and Applications”

Urban IoT solutions and Smart Cities are exciting research areas and it bears historical potential for the Information Systems (IS) discipline to demonstrate their relevance. Urban IoT solutions and Smart Cities deal with the design, use and impact of information systems in our everyday working and living environment, so they affect the quality of both...

Software Engineering for Connected Health

In this Special Issue of the Journal of Software Evolution and Process, we aim to extend the Connected Health field within Software Engineering by identifying the limitations of the existing theories and to develop new or revised theories of Software Engineering for Connected Health. Thus, we seek high quality, state-of-the-art research and practice papers dealing...

Lero and UL launch online videos to help students decide if computer science is right for them

As students and parents consider their CAO options, Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre and the CSIS Department at the University of Limerick (UL) have launched a new video series entitled: “Is a Computer Science course for you?”. The goal of these six, short, video sessions (4-7 minutes each), is to help students make a...