Tagged: DCU & News
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Donegal school wins SmartClass digital education prize News
24.05.2012 One hundred and forty incoming first-year students at Loreto Community School in Milford, Co Donegal, are set to start studying their Junior Cert curriculum digitally this... -
Optical fibre pioneer to speak in Dublin tomorrow News
21.05.2012 Australian entrepreneur and academic Dr Simon Poole will be at Dublin City University tomorrow to give a lecture about his 30-year experience in the area of photonics and... -
New surveillance tech can spot human activity, prevent false alarms News
03.05.2012 Global security provider Netwatch and a team of researchers from the CLARITY Centre at DCU have developed an advanced surveillance technology which can distinguish whether an... -
SFI-funded scientists to head to Silicon Valley News
30.04.2012 Two Irish researchers from DCU and TCD have won an opportunity to head to Silicon Valley and meet with business and scientific research pioneers. Science Foundation Ireland... -
CoderDojo to hold first DCU club this Saturday News
26.04.2012 CoderDojo, the club for young people to learn all about software programming that was co-founded by young entrepreneur James Whelton and internet entrepreneur Bill Liao, is... -
Could Irish State bodies export e-government know-how? News
26.04.2012 Fáilte Ireland scooped the overall eGovernment Award 2012 for its Discover Ireland website. It has been suggested that money could be raised for the Exchequer if e-government...Categories: Social Media, R&D, Internet, eCommerce, Digital Media, Government, Economy, Digital Business, Consumer Tech, CIO, Software & Web Development -
Early stage start-ups to pitch to angel investors and VCs News
23.04.2012 Six tech start-ups engaged in DCU Ryan Academy’s Propellor accelerator are preparing to pitch to a panel of Irish and global angel investors and venture capital firms on Friday. -
Microsoft Ireland hosting National Cloud Week this month News
13.04.2012 Microsoft Ireland is holding its first National Cloud Week from 23-27 April. The week will see a number of events focusing on cloud computing in Ireland. -
Photonics start-up raises €300k to tackle web's best-kept secret News
04.04.2012 Pilot Photonics spin-out company from research teams at DCU and the Tyndall Institute in Cork has raised €300,000 from Enterprise Ireland and AIB Seed Capital fund.Categories: Web, Networking & Telecoms, Investments, Internet, Infrastructure Management, Hardware, Funding, Digital Media, Communications -
Free tech event to get students thinking about start-ups News
02.04.2012 A free technology event called Connector is taking place this Wednesday in Dublin to get third-level students all fired up about opting for the start-up route after they... -
Science, God and Einstein to feature in Nobel Laureate lecture at DCU News
28.03.2012 William Philips who won the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1997 will deliver two stimulating lectures tomorrow at DCU. The first will focus on ‘Time, Einstein and the Coolest Stuff... -
Tech start-up of the week: Von Bismark News
18.03.2012 Our featured tech start-up this week is Von Bismark, a Dublin-based venture that is aiming to be a game-changer in the online shopping space. Drawing upon the Microsoft Kinect’s... -
DCU invites aspiring entrepreneurs to free start-up event News
13.03.2012 Entrepreneurs and early stage businesses who may be in need of inspiration and practical advice may want to mark 20 March in their calendars: That's the day of this year's Get... -
Dublin to host international Science Hack Day 2012 News
08.02.2012 Dublin is gearing up to be the sixth city in the world to host an international Science Hack Day after London, San Francisco, Mexico City, Cincinnati and Cape Town. Running from...Categories: Science, R&D, Legal Eagle, Internet, Intellectual Property, Green Tech, Green Computing, Green, Games/Entertainment, Engineering, Engineer, Energy, Economy, Digital Media -
AILO fosters next generation of Irish computational linguists News
01.02.2012 Some 700 Irish students will this week explore the languages of the world as the 2012 edition of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation’s All-Ireland Linguistics Olympiad... -
Preparing students for a career in IT News
01.02.2012 We spoke to Prof Alan Smeaton and Dr Cathal Gurrin from Dublin City University (DCU) about the digital skills gap and how to better prepare young people who wish to take up a... -
Tech start-ups apply for €30,000 accelerator package News
01.11.2011 DCU Ryan Academy Propeller Venture Accelerator, which is also a Techstars Network member, is inviting the most promising tech self-starters with bright ideas to apply for the...Tags: Venture Capital, Funding, DCU Ryan Academy, Mentoring, ITLG, Ireland, Entrepreneurship, Ryanair, DCU, Spin-out, Incubation, -
Minister reveals €3.75m science education package News
11.01.2012 Ireland's Minister for Education and Skills Ruairí Quinn, TD, has launched a €3.75m EU-funded initiative the Government hopes will ‘revolutionise’ the way science is taught in...Categories: Science, Research, R&D, Internet, Graduate, Engineering, CIO, Careers and Employment, GovernmentTags: FP7, Innovation, Europe, BT Young Scientist & Technology Exhibition , Engineering, Technology, Science, Government, DCU, STEM, Maths, EU -
NUI Galway’s ‘Click & Connect’ computer training seeks to close digital divide News
10.01.2012 Anyone who believes they have been ‘digitally excluded’ now have a chance to brush up on their skills, courtesy of a new computer training initiative from NUI Galway, Limerick... -
Six start-ups make DCU Ryan Academy accelerator programme News
20.12.2011 DCU Ryan Academy has picked the six start-ups for its next Propeller accelerator programme. The start-ups are Picturk, Seoige Technology, StyleCloud, SwiftQueue, Slattery...