ODCSSS in 2007 has 24 students coming from 11 countries. India, Hong Kong, Austria, Thailand, Czech Republic, Germany, Slovenia, France, Spain, USA and Ireland. Some of Irelandʼs best undergraduates coming from UCD, DCU, TCD, WIT, NUIG, NUIM and DIT have been made offers for posts this year.
Category Archives: research
Apr 2007 A digital-physical scrapbook for memory sharing
MEMENTO: a digital-physical scrapbook for memory sharing
Journal Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
Publisher Springer London
ISSN 1617-4909 (Print) 1617-4917 (Online)
Subject Computer Science
Issue Volume 11, Number 4 / April, 2007
Category Original Article
DOI 10.1007/s00779-006-0090-7
Pages 313-328
David West, Aaron Quigley and Judy Kay
Research from Project Nightingale Australia.
Mar 2007 UbiComp Reviews Start
I am a PC member for UbiComp 2007 and reviewing has now started for the 9th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing. [ Watch the UbiComp 2007 Promo Video here ].
This conference is to be held in Innsbruck, Austria in September 2007 with the General Conference Chair Thomas Strang and the Program Committee Co-Chairs John Krumm, Microsoft Research, USA; Gregory Abowd, Georgia Tech, USA and Aruna Seneviratne, NICTA, Australia.
Mar 2007 IBM Dublin CAS Symposium Program Chair
Aaron Quigley is the Program Chair for the IBM CAS Software and Systems Engineering Symposium 2007 (Dublin Ireland). This is the third annual IBM Dublin CAS research symposia organised as a multi-track single day event on October 24th 2007. This symposium is organised in association with CASCON 2007 the 17th Annual International Conference on Computer Science and Software Engineering (http://www.ibm.com/ibm/cas/cascon/dublin_track.shtml) and in cooperation with Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Center (http://www.lero.ie).
Feb 2007 Move of SRG group to CASL
We have moved to the new Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory along with 22 PIs in the first phase of its development. This lab brings together academics from the schools of Business, Computer Science and Informatics, Electrical, Electronic & Mechanical Engineering, Geological Sciences and Mathematical Sciences and the Conway Institute. We also now have 118 postgrads and postdocs and two administrators here in CASL.
Jan 2007 Awarded SFI UREKA grant
Received a very competitive Undergraduate Research Experience & Knowledge Award (UREKA) from the Science Foundation Ireland for ODCSSS with DCU. This award, worth in excess of €300,000 will fund many undergraduate research projects based on the research efforts of the 20 academic applicants and grant co-applicants from 2007 – 2009.
Dec 2006 GREP research visit Sydney and Tokyo
VGV Graduate Programme in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision research and exploratory visits to NICTA (Australia), University of Sydney and the NII Tokyo Japan.
I even got to meet up with one of my former student Taiki Imoto from Hizen-Cho Saga Japan who I taught when he was just 15 and now he is 27! I’m now officially old and here are some photos from my time in Japan in 1995.
Dec 2006 New Program Committee Memberships
Invited to join the Program Committee for both The Seventh IEEE International Conference on Peer-to-Peer Computing (P2P 2007) and The Ninth International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (UBICOMP 2007)
Oct 2006 IRCSET GREP Award
IRCSET funded exploratory our grant for Graduate Programme in Visualisation, Graphics and Vision with TCD, UCD and DCU under their Graduate Research Education Programme.