Tagged: Computer Science & News
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Let your girls play computer games – Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg News
09.04.2013 Let your kids play computer games to foster their interest in a potential computer science career, Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg has said, while also speaking about the lack of... -
DCU’s ComputeTY programme seeks more girl power this year News
31.01.2013 Dublin City University (DCU) is running its ComputeTY programme for transition-year students for the eighth year in a row now, but this time around it’s trying to woo more... -
AILO contest open for students to test logic and computational thinking skills News
17.01.2013 The 2013 All Ireland Linguistics Olympiad (AILO) competition is now accepting applications from second-level students who wish to test their minds against the world’s toughest... -
Production begins to recreate original 1949 computer EDSAC News
09.01.2013 A project to recreate a working replica of the original early British computer, the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), is set to start this week in front of... -
The week in gadgets: smart thermostats, cognitive computing and HP’s latest convertible News
17.12.2012 In our last week in gadgets of the year, we take a look at gadget happenings as HP introduces its ninth-generation convertible tablet, a smart thermostat learns how to regulate... -
Science Review 2012 - Top 100 science stories: Nos 30-26 News
13.12.2012 We continue our countdown of Ireland’s top science and innovation stories of 2012. It was the year Dublin became the European City of Science and major scientific breakthroughs... -
Trinity computer science spin-out ETU closes €500k funding round News
22.11.2012 Software as a service (SaaS) player EmpowerTheUser (ETU) has just secured €500,000 in funding from Leaf Investments along with Enterprise Ireland and private investors.Categories: Leadership & Management, Investments, Internet, Funding, Financial, Engineering, Digital Business -
Game on! Jobs in Ireland’s video games industry up 91pc in just three years News
15.11.2012 Employment in the Irish-based video games industry has increased 91pc since 2009 to a current estimated total of 3,344 workers and has generated revenues of €2bn since 2001, a... -
Cork start-up Keelvar Systems raises €750k in funding round News
11.10.2012 Keelvar Systems, a spin-out from University College Cork that has developed auction technology for governments and multinationals carrying out procurement for tenders, has... -
Number of women in science and tech low in leading economies, study reveals News
03.10.2012 The number of women in the science, technology and innovation fields are notably low in the world’s leading economies and on the decline in others, and greater access to... -
Google RISE Awards seek applicants to win grants News
16.08.2012 Organisations working with primary and secondary school students in computer science and STEM (science, technology, engineering and maths) subjects may now apply to win... -
Computing summer camp shows students’ aptitude for computer science News
25.06.2012 NUI Galway’s annual Computing Summer Camp has just wrapped up and the promise shown by the 80 participants demonstrates the positive impact of initiatives like CoderDojo, and... -
Alan Turing 'father of computer science' commemorated in interactive Google doodle News
23.06.2012 Alan Turing, the father of modern computing, has been commemorated in a special interactive Google doodle that simulates the theoretical Turing machine that Turing proposed in a... -
Celebrate Alan Turing’s 100th birthday with the Lego Turing machine (video) News
23.06.2012 Were he still alive today, Alan Turing would be celebrating his 100th birthday. To mark the occasion, and Alan Turing Year 2012, two Dutch software engineers created a Turing... -
Students to reveal their digital tech projects tomorrow in Dublin News
20.06.2012 Twenty-four secondary school students who have been taking part in an after-school programme at the Digital Hub in Dublin since last year will be revealing their app, film and... -
RoboEireann to debut soccer robotics at NUI Maynooth News
01.06.2012 In the mood for a bit of robotics combined with soccer? Well, RoboEireann will be showing off its soccer-playing robots at NUI Maynooth next Friday. The team recently came... -
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...