Advanced Databases - Time change - Tuesday 1st November

The following time change is for the Advanced Databases module on Tuesday 1st November.

Class will commence at 6:10pm and will finish at 7:40pm.

This time change is for Tuesday 1st November only.

Class Cancelled

Due to the current weather conditions and major public transport issues, my classes today (Data & Databases for DA, and Advanced Databases) are cancelled.

The topics that we should have covered today will be covered during our timetabled class next week.

Regards
Brendan

SAS Server Update

I've received an email on Monday evening from SAS saying the following:

"Our system administrators have made changes to the hosted SAS Servers. Would you mind testing and letting me know if this has improved performance for you and your students?"


Can I you log into SAS OnDemand and test it using the lab notes.

Let me know if you notice and improvement in performance.

Thanks
Brendan

Event - James Gleick The Information: A History, A Theory and Flood Nov 3rd

James Gleick will speak at Science Gallery on Thursday, Nov 3rd about “The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood”,  his new bestselling book which analyses the history,  evolution,  and future of information."

 It's sponsored by SFI and admission is only €5.

Book tickets:
http://www.sciencegallery.com/events/2011/11/james-gleick

From Amazon:

"James Gleick, the author of the bestsellers Chaos and Genius, brings us his crowning work: a revelatory chronicle that shows how information has become the modern era’s defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.
The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanished as soon as it was born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long misunderstood “talking drums” of Africa, James Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the poet’s brilliant and doomed daughter, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.

An then the information age comes upon us. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And they sometimes feel they are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading."

Reviews: http://around.com/the-information

Registrations

At this point registrations have information on all students who have been in contact with me either
by email or through the survey.

If you have not received a invitation to register you should contact registrations directly
email registration.service@dit.ie, phone 01 402 7000

If there are corrections to be made to your record email your programme mentor or me
and we can arrange the change.

Anyone who has not registered and arranged payment needs to do so asap to avoid late fees.

Installment payments are two installments based on your years fee. Registrations need a full year
selection before they will accept payment.

Springboard Students - Registration

All students should have received a letter from Robert Murphy offering them a place
on DT217 MSc in Computing (KM) at this stage.
If you have not you need to contact him asap as he may be waiting for documentation.

If you have received your letter then you can go to student services and get
your student card.
DT217 is the placeholder for Springboard students. It does not affect your
stream choice.

Anyone who has not registered should do so as soon as possible.

Statistics Class Back to Kevin St.

The Probability & Statistical Inference class on Tuesday 18th October will be back in room G028 in Kevin St. From now we will use both the labs in Aungier St and the lecture room in Kevin St depending on what content is being covered. Notice will be given on this blog and via email as early as possible.

Employer Presentation - Riverland Solutions

On Tuesday 25th October. David Dempsey, Managing Director of Riverland Solutions GmbH will host a presentation to FINAL YEAR/POSTGRADUATES in Computer Science courses. Basically those who will be looking for job opportunities in 2012. This is the ideal opportunity for students to hear how their careers can turn out and he will also talk about what kind of jobs are out there etc.   This presentation/question and answer session will be held in Room KE 2008 from 13.00-14.00approx.

Graduate and Intern Recruitment - Cisco

Cisco are recruiting for graduate and intern positions.

Details are given below.

Students who wish to apply for the above positions should click on the following link: http://www.cisco.apply2jobs.com/HVExt/index.cfm?fuseaction=mHvexternal.showJobCategory

Candidates need to look either under Full Time Engineering or Intern Engineering and follow the instructions.

Cisco Engineering Organization: Graduate Software Engineer

Location: Galway, Ireland

The Opportunity

It’s an exciting time to work at Cisco. Our software is lighting up Unified Communications and breaking new ground in the area of Virtualization. We seek Graduate Engineers for the Software Engineering Team within the Cisco Collaboration & Communications Group to help us create the next generation of Unified Communications software and services.

A Graduate Software Engineer will be part of the Agile Software Development team contributing to some or all aspects of the Software Development Cycle from Product Definition and Architecture through software coding, build, test, solution deployment, customer rollout and post deployment support.

Primary Responsibilities, Skills and Attributes of successful candidates include:

• Deliver world-class, globally deployed Unified Communications Products.

• Self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and be flexible

• Problem solving skills across multiple technologies and environments with strong investigation and troubleshooting skills

• Strong teamwork and communication skills, both written and oral in a highly collaborative Agile environment

• Software Development and Coding mainly in Multi-Threaded C++ on Windows and Linux.

• Additional coding skills in some or all of C/JSP/Java/JavaScript/HTML/Python

• Hands on testing of applications with a strong emphasis on Automation.

• Object Oriented Design methodologies and Software Design Principles delivered via an Agile process environment

• Demonstrate practical application of these attributes via project or intern work

Knowledge of the following areas would be an advantage:

• Experience on a Linux or cross-platform development environment

• Experience with TCP/IP based networking

• Cisco Certification and product knowledge

• Microsoft Certification and product knowledge

• Skills in one or more of the following scripting languages: Perl, Python, Shell, Bash, Ruby, Tcl

• Unified Communications protocols

• AJAX, JavaScript and web application development

• Virtualization technologies

• Knowledge of Browser Plug-ins

• Video Technologies

Education Requirements:

B.Sc. / B.Eng / M.Sc / M.Eng or equivalents in the areas of Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Software Development, Computer Networking, Electronics or other equivalent disciplines with an emphasis on Software Design practices.

Eligibility Requirements:

• Graduated with undergraduate or graduate level degree within 24 months of start date

• Legally entitled to live and work in European Union

• Must be fluent in English

Start Date: Flexible depending on academic schedule with opportunities available for Summer 2012

To apply please complete the online application for a Graduate Software Engineer (Galway) at http://www.universityconnection.ciscoeos.com/

Please join our Facebook community: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/35880077360/ (Cisco Graduate Recruitment – European Markets – UK and Ireland)

Cisco Engineering Organization: Internships (2012) – Software Engineering

Location: Galway, Ireland

The Opportunity:

It’s an exciting time to work at Cisco. Our software is lighting up Unified Communications and breaking new ground in the area of Virtualization. We are seeking talented students to work as interns in the Software Engineering Team within the Cisco Collaboration & Communications Group. This is an opportunity to help us create the next generation of Unified Communications software and services.

A Software Engineering intern will be part of the Agile Software Development team contributing to some or all aspects of the Software Development Cycle from Product Definition and Architecture through software coding, build, test, solution deployment, customer rollout and post deployment support

Job Title: Software Engineering Intern

Cisco is looking to recruit for Software Engineering Intern positions.

Core Competencies:

 Good communication skills, both written and oral.

 Be self-motivated with a strong desire to learn and innovate.

 Have a passion for leading edge technologies.

The successful candidate will have some of the following skills:

 Knowledge and experience on Microsoft Windows™, Linux and Mac OS X Operating Systems.

 Knowledge of Networking and/or Communications protocols (IP, HTTP, SIP)

 Intermediate to advanced coding skills in some of Java, C#, JavaScript, C++, C, Perl, TCL

 Knowledge of Web Technologies e.g. HTML, Javascript, XML

 Object Oriented Design methodologies and S/W Design Principles.

 Experience installing, configuring and maintaining Information Systems (s/w and h/w).

 Strong investigation and troubleshooting skills.

 Experience with VMWare

The successful candidate will participate in a team of engineers and responsibilities may include:

 Hands on coding in Java, C#, C++, Javascript.

 Assist in software architecture development, prototyping, debugging and testing.

 Reviewing Product Feature Specifications and creating design documentation and Test Plans

 Installing and troubleshooting test environments (s/w, h/w and network infrastructure)

 Scripting and coding of test cases

 Creating and running test cases, finding defects and documenting test results

 Lab support including server installation, backup and replacement.

Education Requirements:

Students in the areas of Computer Science, Information Systems, Information Technology, Telecommunications, Software Development, Computer Networking, Electronics or other equivalent disciplines with an emphasis on Software Design practices.

Eligibility Requirements:

 Applicants must currently be enrolled in a relevant technology undergraduate or postgraduate program

 Ability to live and work in the EU with no additional sponsorship from Cisco

 Must be fluent in English

Start Date: Flexible depending on academic schedule, ideally seeking candidates requiring a work placement as part of their degree program

To apply please complete the online application for a Software Engineering Intern (Galway) at http://www.universityconnection.ciscoeos.com/

Please join our Facebook community: http://www.facebook.com/#!/groups/35880077360/

(Cisco Graduate Recruitment – European Markets – UK and Ireland)

Invitation to Talks as part of Dublin Innovation Festival

The following talks will be held as part of Dublin Innovation Festival. All are welcome to attend.

LINGLE: NEXT GENERATION OF ONLINE LANGUAGE LEARNING TOOLS

DIT School of Computing lecturers Dr. John Kelleher, Dr. Brian McNamee and Dr. Noel Fitzpatrick present a talk on Lingle - a web-based service designed for teachers and learners of English. Lingle helps teachers automatically find and build complete lesson plans and materials from authentic real news sources. It uses cutting edge advances in machine learning and computational linguistics research to automatically highlight grammar in use and vocabulary. This talk describes the computer science research from which Lingle was developed and how it is helping to transform language learning and teaching.

Wednesday 19/10/2011, 7pm K208

Tea/coffee will be served after the talk

TUNEPAL: TRACKING TRADITIONAL IRISH MUSIC AROUND THE WORLD USING MOBILE APPS AND GOOGLE MAPS

Dr. Bryan Duggan, DIT School of Computing will discuss Tunepal, winner of the DIT Best Invention 2010 and the world's leading search engine for traditional Irish music. Tunepal enables musicians to search over 17,000 music scores by playing a phrase of music on a traditional instrument such as flute or accordion. Having originally emerged from Bryan's PhD research, it is now available online and as mobile apps for iPhone and Android devices. By tracking its use Bryan shows in this talk how Irish music has become a global cultural phenomenon.

Wednesday 26/10/2011, 7pm K208

New Data Mining Class

Due to the large number of MSc students who are taking the Data Mining class on a Monday evening, a additional class has been scheduled.

All full-time students must attend the new time slot. Any part-time students who can attend during the day should do so too.

The additional class will be on Thursday 10:00-13:00 in room KA-1-017 (computer lab on first floor of the annex building)

This new arrangement will commence week of 17th Oct.

Brendan

Dublinked opens Public Sector data to the business community

What?
Your invitation to access Dublin's data and create new opportunities

Where?
Wood Quay Venue, Dublin Civic Offices, Wood Quay, Dublin 8

When?
Tue Oct 18th 2011
8.30am – Coffee & registration
9.00am – Start

More details of speakers etc at http://www.dublinked.ie/

RSVP to dublinked@nuim.ie by Wed Oct 12th


In a 2009 report, the European Commission estimated the value of the EU Public sector data, which can be used as the basis for the development of new products and services, at €27 billion.
Through Dublinked Dublin City Council and Fingal, Dun Laoghaire/Rathdown and South Dublin County Councils are making their public sector data available to the business community to facilitate data driven innovation in products and services.



Supported by NUI Maynooth and IBM,
Dublinked will be officially opened by
Lord Mayor Cllr Andrew Montague.

Student Services Centres - Opening Hours

The Aungier Street and Bolton Street Students’ Service Centres are open daily, providing the following services:

·        Issuing ID cards

·        Stamping of forms

·        Letters confirming registrations and fees paid

·        Payments/ Fees/Grants

·        General registrations queries

Opening hours are Monday – Thursday: 9am to 5pm and Friday: 9am to 4 pm.

You will find the Students’ Service Centre in Aungier Street in Room G-044 (Ground Floor) and in Bolton Street in Room 319 (Level 3).

Security Semester 1

Note from Fred Mtenzi re teaching of Security S1

"As we have started a late, I will not give practicals on Cryptography to students. Instead those practicals will be demonstrated in class and in the labs. The coverage will be heavily leaned towards Systems Security. I will give at most two assignments and be flexible on the submission deadline. Other details of the module are as given in the module specification document."

Rooms for Security and Ubiquitous Computing Semester 1

Ubiqituous Computing Wednesday nights, 18:30 to 21:30

Ke-1-004 Lecturer: Michael Collins

Security Monday nights, 18:30 to 21:30

KE-G-043 Lecturer: Fred Mtenzi

These will be visible on Webtimetables.

If you are interested in taking either module please email 

me to let me know

Security will also run in Semester 2.

Deirdre

Problem Solving Classes Wednesday.

Problem Solving Classes on Wednesday,

3-6pm in A115 (KA-1-015)

6:30-9:30pm in K208 (KE-2-008)

Library Orientation Tours

There are short fast facts orientation tours available at midday
every Tues, Wed & Thurs - no need to book , you can call in on
the day that suits.