The latest announcements and news items related to the School of Computing, DCU. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html en-uk Mon, 10 Aug 2009 09:00:00 GMT Tue, 23 Feb 2010 09:00:00 GMT IBM offers a world of opportunity to start something Extreme! Extreme Blue is IBM's program designed to provide outstanding students(Top 10% of Class) in computer science and MBA/MSIS/Business programmes from around the country, with an unforgettable internship experience. Drawing from a wealth of resources that only IBM can provide, this challenging internship program combines competitive compensation, unparalleled technical expertise -- and a leading-edge work environment. Extreme Blue participants often go on to permanent positions within IBM. The positions are based in the IBM Dublin Software Lab in the IBM Technology Campus in Mulhuddart. The internship will begin from June 2010 onwards and will finish end of September 2010 with the Extreme Blue Expo. To facilitate this IBM will be attending DCU to explain about Extreme Blue and have students sit c++, Java paper test which will help move forward in the Recruitment process. These test results can also be used for any other position that may arise throughout the year within the software lab. IBM will be attending DCU on Monday 1st March from 4pm – 6pm in Room QG27 Business School http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Feb, 23 2010 09:00:00 GMT Over 250 second level students all over Ireland are taking the first round paper of the CNGL All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) in their own schools this week. Following the success of last year's inaugural AILO competition, CNGL invited transition-year, 5th- and 6th-year students in Ireland and Northern Ireland with an interest in languages and good analytical skills to put them together, learn about linguistics, and participate in this fun competition. The winners of the overall AILO individual competition will represent Ireland at the International Linguistics Olympiad in Sweden in July 2010. More.. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Feb, 4 2010 09:00:00 GMT The National Centre for Language Technology and the Centre for Next Generation Localisation are hosting the Machine Translation Marathon (MTM) 2010 at Dublin City University 25-30th January on behalf of the EuroMatrixPlus Consortium, a Machine Translation research project. This is the fourth in a series of MT Marathons in which researchers, developers, students, and users of machine translation from all over the world attend lectures and labs introducing them to the latest research in the field. More.. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Jan, 25 2010 09:00:00 GMT Hany Hassan, an ex-PhD student of Prof. Andy Way has been selected as the winner of the 2009 LRC Best Thesis Award. The Award was officially announced on Thursday 24th September at the LRC XIV Conference in Limerick. The conference 'Localisation in The Cloud', is the 14th Annual Internationalisation and Localisation Conference organised by the Localisation Research Centre (LRC) in Limerick University and supported by the Centre for Next Generation Localisation (CNGL) here at DCU. Hany's thesis was entitled "Lexical Syntax for Statistical Machine Translation", was co-supervised by Dr. Khalil Sima'an of the University of Amsterdam, and was funded by SFI under their Investigator programme. Well done to Hany! http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Sep, 25 2009 09:00:00 GMT Mark Gowing's Virtual Maze final year CA project from this year has been used in DCU's Summer Camp for kids. The project explored location based gameplay - where the player's physical location in a room is used as input, a concept developed from the success of Nintendo's Wii and DS consoles. It consists of a selection of 2D mini games, each one using the players location in a different way. Visual feedback is provided via a large LCD video wall, and real-time tracking is achieved through wearable UbiSense tags. Claire O'Connell of the Irish Times interviewed Mark's project supervisor, Prof Alan Smeaton, deputy director of Clarity, a Science Foundation Ireland centre that links Dublin City University, University College Dublin and Tyndall National Institute in Cork. It's all down to the most simple of sensors, nothing too grand, he explains. "We do all kinds of complex measurements here on phosphates and water quality and we look at the pH of sweat - it's all very high end," says Smeaton. "But sometimes the simplest of sensors can give you applications that you wouldn't have thought of before. So we started to think about what could we do based on games." Out of that grew two approaches - one based on sheep-herding where players run around a virtual "field" steering sheep into a central pen, the other on a dance-mat that encourages children to jump on the correct answer. More.. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Aug, 18 2009 09:00:00 GMT DCU and the Bank of Ireland today announced a unique discounted loan scheme for those recently unemployed who wish to study engineering and computing at postgraduate level at DCU. The scheme is available for students who wish to enter DCU this September or in March 2010. It is the first of its kind in Ireland and is intended for graduates who have recently been made unemployed and who wish to upskill. This unique discounted loan can provide up to EUR15k in funding to cover fees and living expenses. The scheme also allows students defer making any repayment on the loan for 18 months giving them financial freedom to concentrate on their studies. Applicants must be unemployed, but must not be longer than 12 months out of work. They should meet the university's minimum entry requirements and Bank of Ireland's normal lending criteria and terms and conditions apply. More.. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Aug, 14 2009 09:00:00 GMT From July 13-17, CNGL is running two combined modules with CTYI; 'Japanese Language' and 'Culturally Localising Web Pages'. A group of forty students, aged 8-13 years old, are taking the two modules. Joss Moorkens, a CNGL PhD student based in DCU, is teaching the language module. Dr. Dimitra Anastasiou, a CNGL postdoctoral researcher at the University of Limerick (UL), and Naoto Nishio, a CNGL PhD student at UL, will teach the culturally localising web pages. The Culturally Localising Web Pages course is designed to introduce the concept of localisation to the participants by comparing fun Japanese, English and French web sites. This course highlights the differences and similarities of contents among those languages and cultures to explain the importance of localisation. This students will learn the Katakana character set in Japanese and be able to type them when they create their own website. More.. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Jul, 14 2009 09:00:00 GMT CNGL is running a three-week Search Engines course with the Centre for Talented Youth (CTYI). Ten teenagers are attending the course in LG25 in the School of Computing in DCU from June 22nd - July 10th 2009. Headed up Dr. Gareth Jones and Dr. Johannes Leveling, the course aims to introduce the students to the technologies behind current commercial search engines and related natural language and search technologies, and show students some research systems currently under development. In doing this, the presenters will introduce the subjects of information retrieval, machine translation and adaptive hypermedia. Sessions are presented by staff and researchers from CNGL with assistance from researchers in the Clarity research centre. All the instructors are active researchers in the areas that they are talking about. Jian Zhang, an INTRA student working for CNGL Education and Outreach, developed software for the students to use during the course. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Jun, 25 2009 09:00:00 GMT The annual School of Computing Champagne Breakfast took place on 28th May in the School of Computing, and was a great success. Guest speakers at the event included Professor Anne Scott (Deputy President of DCU), and Dr. Stephen Blott (Head of Computing School). The speakers welcomed industry members during the breakfast, and invited them to tour the Final Year project displays in the labs. The Final Year students had obviously worked hard on their business presentation skills and there were some truly impressive projects on display. There has been great feedback from students and industry attendees alike, and we expect several students will hear directly from industry members over the next few months. http://www.computing.dcu.ie/news/index.html Jun, 10 2009 09:00:00 GMT