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...

Watch this space: Lero’s software research can later apply to down-to-earth situations

Irish Times – Business Innovation- Dick Ahlstrom Monday, 12 January 2015 Watch this space: Lero’s software research can later apply to down-to-earth situations Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre based at the University of Limerick has just won a software development contract with the European Space Agency. Worth €400,000, Lero will control the €300,000 with...

Leading European software academic joins UL and Lero

Professor Tiziana Margaria has been appointed Professor of Software Systems at the University of Limerick and a Principal Investigator of Lero, the Irish Software Research Centre.  She was previously Professor of Service and Software Engineering at the University of Potsdam in Germany and is a former head of the Institute of Informatics. Professor Margaria is...

Charlemont Award

Dr Klaas-Jan Stol was awarded a Charlemont Award of 2,000 euro by the Royal Irish Academy (www.ria.ie). The grant was awarded for work on adapting agile software development methods to regulated and critical domains such as medical, aerospace and automotive.

Professor Paolo Prinetto visits Lero

Prof. Paolo Prinetto from Politecnico di Torino/CINI (italy) visited Lero in the week Dec. 2-5th. At UL, his talk on “Connected Assisted Living 2.0” outlined the development of the AsTech National Laboratory of CINI and highlighted several projects where software, hardware, sensors, robots, and virtual characters cooperate to support deaf and deaf-blind users. In his...