Tagged: Computer Science & News
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Women rule in tech (infographic) News
14.05.2012 Women are making great strides in the technology sector, a new infographic shows, in taking up the subject in college, starting companies, and leading them. -
TCD computer scientist gets top innovation accolade News
12.04.2012 Trinity College Dublin (TCD) has presented its 2012 Innovation Award to computer scientist and technology entrepreneur Dr Gerard Lacey. -
Scientists pioneer new encryption technology for Google Docs (video) News
04.04.2012 Researchers at Trinity College Dublin (TCD) have come up with a new encryption technology called CipherDocs to secure documents that are sent and stored in the cloud via Google... -
Weekend news roundup: manifesto for 21st-century education; China's cyber civil war News
02.04.2012 Technology news coverage in some of the weekend's newspapers, including a manifesto for 21st-century computer science learning, how China is at war with its bloggers, inside the... -
Tech start-up of the week: Haunted Planet News
01.04.2012 Our featured tech start-up this week is Haunted Planet, a new digital venture that is creating location-based augmented reality smartphone games to immerse gamers into the eerie...Categories: Software Development, Software, R&D, Mobile, Investments, Internet, Games/Entertainment, Funding, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, Computers -
Citrix and IT Sligo announce IT education alliance News
24.02.2012 The Minister for Jobs and Skills Ruairí Quinn TD is launching the Citrix Academy Network at IT Sligo this afternoon. The aim of the network is to equip students from computing...Categories: Careers and Employment, CIO, Economy, Education, Global CIO, Internet, R&D, Software, Software & Web Development, VirtualisationTags: Jobs, Cloud Computing, Education, Ireland, IT Sligo, Virtualisation, Citrix, Skills February, IT, Computer science -
Ireland reveals rich scientific history News
07.11.2011 Robert Boyle, Ernest Walton, William Rowan Hamilton, Ellen Hutchins and Cynthia Evelyn Longfield are some of the many scientists who shaped Irish history and marked the path...Tags: Science November, Scientists, Ireland, Chemistry, Medical, Astronomy, Physics, Engineering, Computer science, IT, Mathematics, -
Patient Journey Record taps into global health-tech demand News
12.02.2012 Our Tech Start-Up of the Week is Patient Journey Record (PaJR), a new Irish health-tech venture that’s developing a cloud-based hospital re-admissions platform, with the aim of... -
Google funds Dublin centre for advancing STEM education News
31.01.2012 The Centre for Academic Achievement in Dublin is among 26 organisations receiving more than US$340,000 in funding from Google for engaging students in computer science and... -
UCC lecture on teaching computer science to kids News
27.01.2012 Next Wednesday, University College Cork’s Prof Barry O’Sullivan will give an interactive lecture on teaching the principles of computer science to primary school children. The...Categories: Internet, Engineering, Education, Computers, Consumer Tech, Economy, R&D, Science, Software -
NI student wins award for his ‘Budget Wise’ app News
26.01.2012 Glenn Sayers, a computer science student from Ballymena in Co Antrim, has won the ‘2011 Awesome App’ award after the app he developed at Kainos App Camp last summer was...Tags: Kainos, Apps, Northern Ireland, Computer science, iPad, iPhone, Budget, Apple, Apple App Store -
Computer science for schools – education planners just don’t get IT News
11.01.2012 This morning it emerged that the UK’s current ICT programme of study in schools is to be scrapped and replaced by a computer science curriculum as the UK quite rightly attempts... -
Irish cloud firm Sonru inspires CERN on recruitment News
25.11.2011 CERN, the European Organisation for Nuclear Research, was last week transformed into an internet hub when World Wide Web pioneer Robert Cailliau gave the keynote at a CERN... -
Smart tech of the future at NUI Galway, as IT projects excel News
07.11.2011 NUI Galway IT students have won awards for their innovative smart-tech projects covering everything from interactive policy simulators for urban dynamics, web visualisation of... -
Irish computer lecturer is a YouTube hit News
21.10.2011 A lecturer at the School of Computing at National College of Ireland has become a YouTube hit, clocking up more than 500,000 views and more than 15,000 viewers a week. -
Can iPhone’s accelerometer be used to spy on your keystrokes? News
19.10.2011 Researchers at Georgia Tech have succeeded in turning the iPhone into a spy phone. The team has discovered a hacker could use the iPhone placed inches from your keyboard to... -
New leadership for computer science research at 4C in Cork News
29.07.2011 Prof Gene Freuder is retiring from University College Cork’s (UCC) Cork Constraint Computation Centre (4C) to be replaced by Prof Barry O’Sullivan.Tags: Research, Computer science -
Irish students in US computational linguistics competition News
27.07.2011 A team of four Irish secondary school students are competing in the International Linguistics Olympiad at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, US, this week.Tags: Computer science, -
IBM seeks multidisciplinary research staff for smarter cities centre News
28.06.2011 IBM has hired 40 people out of the 200 positions within its Smarter Cities Technology Centre and said candidates don’t necessarily need a technological background to apply. -
Demonware boss warns of skills gap in Irish computer science courses News
27.05.2011 Tony Kelly, CEO of Demonware, pointed out a huge skills gap between Irish and Canadian graduates of computer science programmes, saying they hired 95pc of Canadian interns...Tags: Tony Kelly, Demonware, Computer science, Maths, Education, Graduates, Ireland, Dublin, Software, Activision, Jobs, Skills