Pint of Science 2015

Pint of Science is a worldwide event where Scientists doff their white coats and take to the pub to share their research tales. Limerick is one of 50 cities in eight countries taking part in the world-wide event. The aim of Pint of Science is to deliver science talks in a fun, engaging and approachable...

Lero receives €133,000 European research grant to commercialise application to boost productivity across culturally diverse teams

New training prototype has commercial potential for global software development, sales and staff motivation Pictured at the announcement of a €133,000 research grant to Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre, to commercialise an application designed to boost global collaboration were (from left) Dr Sarah Beecham, Dr John Noll and Dr Helen Kelly-Holmes. Picture: Sean Curtin...

Global Award for Lero Software Researcher

New York and Limerick; Thursday, 16th April, 2015: 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...

Prof Bashar Nuseibeh Receives 2015 ACM SIGSOFT Distinguished Service Award

 ACM’s Special Interest Group on Software Engineering (SIGSOFT) www.sigsoft.org has named Prof. Bashar Nuseibeh as the recipient of its 2015 Distinguished Service Award for “For key service contributions to the software engineering community, including major editorial responsibilities in top journals and successful chairing of major technical events.”  Dr. Nuseibeh (http://nuseibeh.com) is a Professor of Computing...

Rory O’Connor Associate Professor at Dublin City University

We would like to congratulate Rory O’Connor on his recent promotion to the rank of Associate Professor at Dublin City University. Rory has also recently been appointed to the role of Editor in Chief of the Computer Standards and Interfaces journal, published by Elsevier. Rory is currently serving as Head of the School of Computing...

Dr Sean Baker appointed chairman of Lero Governance Committee

Dr Sean Baker, a co-founder of IONA Technologies plc, has been appointed chairman of the Governance Committee of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre. In 2013 Dr Baker was named as the Irish Software Association’s ‘Person of the Year’ in recognition of his contribution to the software industry. He replaces Mr Eoin O’Driscoll who has...

Dr Klaas-Jan Stol receives New Foundations 2015 award

Dr Klaas-Jan Stol received a New Foundations 2015 award from the Irish Research Council for his continued work on Inner Source, following support from a previous New Foundations award in 2014. The New Foundations programme, launched by Minister Jan O’Sullivan, aims at supporting researchers in their research by providing travel funding. Dr Stol was awarded...

Lero develops model to boost privacy on Social Media sites

Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre and The Open University have developed a model which could be used to strengthen user privacy amongst online social networks such as Facebook and Twitter. The findings have been selected from approximately 500 entries to be presented this week (Monday 9th March) by postdoctoral researcher Dr Mu Yang to...

Lero wins Google global award to encourage girls to take up computing

Clare McInerney, Education and Outreach Manager Many girls put off computing “by nerdy, geeky image” Lero has been named by Google as one of the global winners of the 2015 RISE Awards. Google’s RISE programme, which began in 2010, is designed to support organisations that encourage girls and underrepresented students in extracurricular computer science programmes. ...

Lero wins €400,000 research contract with European Space Agency

Prestigious contract for Irish organisation designed to boost software reliability in space Lero has been selected by the European Space Agency (ESA) for the implementation of a research programme worth €400,000. The 18 month programme, which will be led by Lero Director Prof. Mike Hinchey, will commence this month. Lero will collaborate with chip manufacturer...