Intel and Lero support Junior Cycle students in ‘Exploring Coding’

The introduction of computer coding courses for secondary schools has received a boost following the announcement of a collaborative initiative between Intel Ireland, Lero – The Irish Software Research Centre – and Junior Cycle for Teachers (JCT) which was launched last week in the University of Limerick. The project is designed to support schools and...

Evolving Critical Systems

Prof Mike Hinchey gave a Distinguished Lecture at INESC-ID, University of Lisbon in December. The INESC-ID Distinguished Lecture Series is designed to bring to the institute outstanding scientists, academics or practitioners to share their vision, and present their groundbreaking work. The series aims to promote a regular sequence of high quality seminars in the core...

Award by the Association of Information Systems for Prof Brian Fitzgerald

Brian Fitzgerald has been awarded the inaugural Sandra Slaughter Award by the Association of Information Systems (AIS). This award recognizes long standing members who have provided leadership within the Association, particularly through such activities as participating in the SIGs/chapters/colleges, strengthening the conferences, and participating in AIS-sponsored journals. A committee of senior AIS scholars reviewed the...

Minister O’Sullivan launches expanded national Science Foundation Ireland software research centre in €46.4m investment

Ms Jan O’Sullivan TD, Minister for Education and Skills, today formally launched an expanded Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Irish Software Research Centre, at the University of Limerick in a €46.4 million investment over six years. The development means that 90 PhD and 46 postdoctoral research positions will be created over the next six years,...

Lero Technology Workshops

Lero members Fayola Peters, Solomon Gizaw, Anila Mjeda, Frederik Gossen and Clare McInerney ran Technology Workshops on Monday and Wednesday November 9th and 11th for Science Week. The visiting primary school children played with Lego WeDo, Lego Mindstorms, NAO Robot, Scratch, LightBot and 3D visualization tools. The workshops were fully booked out and students were...

Blockchain Hackathon

Quentin and Takfarinas won the third prize at the biggest Blockchain Hackathon (https://blockchain-hackathon.com/) in Europe which happened in Dublin between the 6th and 8th November with a project called “Open Charity”, a safe, decentralized system allowing to issue IOUs (“I Owe You” tokens) for the benefit of Charity. The project was designed to facilitate the request...

Showcase of Irish Science and Technology

To mark the 20th annual Science Week, which takes place from the 8th – 15th November, An Taoiseach Enda Kenny, T.D. attended a showcase of Irish science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) at Government Buildings on Thursday Nov 5th. The event provided an insight into the inspirational and important scientific work being carried out across...

EU Code Week

As part of EU Code Week in October Lero hosted two programming workshops in St. Mary’s Secondary School, Corbally Limerick and in Presentation Convent Mitchelstown Cork. Europe Code Week is a grassroots initiative which aims to bring coding and digital literacy to everybody in a fun and engaging way.

Irish software Professor to head global technology association

Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre – has been elected President-Elect of IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing). Limerick-born Professor Hinchey will be the first Irishman to be elected President of the organisation since it was established under the auspices of UNESCO in 1960.  IFIP is the global...

Best Papers at FASSI 2015 for Lero Members

Best paper awards have been presented to Dr Fergal McCaffery and Dr Silvana Togneri MacMahon from Lero @ DkIT for papers presented at The First International Conference on Fundamentals and Advances in Software Systems Integration (FASSI) Conference 2015. Dr McCaffery’s paper was entitled ‘Medical Device Software as a Subsystem of an Overall Medical Device’. ‘Dr...