Director of Lero Elected President of IFIP

At its General Assembly, 9 October 2015 in Daejeon, Korea, IFIP (the International Federation for Information Processing) elected Prof. Mike Hinchey as its 18th President.   Hinchey will serve as President-Elect until the next General Assembly (San Jose, Costa Rica, September 2016) following which he will assume a 3-year term as President. About IFIP IFIP, the...

International honour for Irish software chief

Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, has been appointed Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of the Brazilian Computer Society.   Limerick born Professor Hinchey, who is the first non-Brazilian to be appointed to the role, continues as head of Lero. The online open access journal, which is published in English by...

Lero backs computers in schools following mixed OECD report findings

Lero backs computers in schools following mixed OECD report findings Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has stated that international media coverage of this week’s OECD report distorts the value of computers in schools. “The danger is that Irish policy makers, parents and teachers misinterpret the findings which would damage Ireland’s goal of building a...

Lero helps Ireland wins prestigious international tech conference

Limerick headquartered Lero – the Irish Software Research Centre, has helped Ireland win a prestigious international technology conference. Ireland beat off stiff competition to host the 37th International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), which will take place in the Convention Centre, Dublin in December 2016. An estimated 1,500 global delegates and their partners are expected...

Software chief urges changes in teaching to address gender gap in computing

Software chief urges changes in teaching to address gender gap in computing Limerick: Wednesday, 5th August, 2015: Early teaching of mathematics and technology subjects needs to be reviewed if the gender gap in technology is to be addressed. This was stated by Professor Mike Hinchey, director of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre at the...

Cork primary school receives unexpected technology learning bonus

A Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) research grant has resulted in an unexpected technology learning bonus for the pupils of north Cork primary school, Rockchapel. Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, is one of seven new industry-academia partnerships worth in total €480,000, which was awarded through the SFI Industry Fellowship Programme.  Lero’s project valued at almost...

Google RISE -Lero Summer Camps

Lero was one of the winners of the 2015 Google RISE Awards. The Google RISE programme is designed to support organisations that encourage girls and underrepresented students in extracurricular computer science programmes.  During June and July summer camps for girls will be hosted by Lero. The first camp took place between 17th-19th June with over...

Lero and Open University Workshop

Software engineering groups from Lero@UL and The Open University (OU), UK, met in Limerick on 14-17 June 2015 for a joint workshop on adaptive security, privacy and digital forensics. The group met to consolidate existing collaborations and to build new ones across the two sites. The workshop ended with a joint poster session open to...

ACM-AIS MSIS Curricular Review

Following a thorough preliminary evaluation, ACM and AIS (the Association for Information Systems) have decided to launch a joint process to review and revise MSIS 2006, the master’s-level curriculum recommendation for Information Systems. The process will be led by a task force consisting of two co-chairs (one from each organization) and six additional members (three...

Prof Bashar Nuseibeh Receives Distinguished Service Award

Professor Bashar Nuseibeh of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, has been named as recipient of the 2015 Distinguished Service Award by the US headquartered ACM (the Association for Computing Machinery). ACM (www.acm.org) is the world’s largest educational and scientific computing society with more than 100,000 members from industry, academia and government institutions around the...