Exam Timetables

You will all have probably received an email from the Examinations Office by now detailing the exam timetable for January. One important thing to note is that this timetable includes details of all of the modules on your stream, rather than just the modules that you are taking. You can just ignore the details of modules you are not taking.

The exam timetable sent out by the Examinations Office does not include details of exam locations. Exam locations are posted on the noticeboard in the main Kevin St foyer every morning in the exams period and you need to make sure to check this noticeboard for up to date exam location details.

Research Methods Class on Tuesday (Damian)

Hi all,

according to my classlists, this is who is
in my class (there are a few people whose
signatures I'm not sure of), and when they
are starting their dissertations, if you are
in my Tuesday evening class, and are not
on this list, or I have your status down wrong,
please e-mail me:

Michael	Brophy	DT217A	Not in Jan
Stephen	Corrigan	DT217	Not in Jan
Nicholas	Dillion	DT217A	Not in Jan
Michal	Drobiec	DT286	In Jan
David	Ferguson	DT286	In Jan
Shane	Harpur	DT217	In Jan
John	Kavanagh	DT217A	Not in Jan
P.J.	Kelly	DT286	Not in Jan
Bobby	Kiernan	DT286	In Jan
Paul	Kilkenny	DT286	Not in Jan
Olubusola	Laiyemo	DT217	In Jan
Paul	Lyons	DT217A	Not in Jan
Alan	McClean	DT217	Not in Jan
Fiona	McGroarty	DT286	In Jan
Sylo	Parrakkattu	DT286	Not in Jan
Joseph	Riou	DT286	Not in Jan
Lien Thi	Thai	DT286	In Jan
Kerri	Toft	DT202A	Not in Jan
Ana	Vallejo	DT230	Not in Jan

 
thanks,

Damian

Dissertation Submission Date

This message is only for those students who started their MSc Dissertation Project in September 2012.

If you area a full-time student, you will need to submit your dissertation on Monday 7th January before 1pm. You can submit it to the School of Computing office.  No extension is possible to the date and time.

If you are a part-time student, you should only submit your dissertation (for examination) on the 7th January before 1pm, only if you have agreed this with your supervisor. Your final submission date is Monday 25th March, 2013, before 1pm.
http://www.comp.dit.ie/btierney/MScDissertations/Sept2012.html

Make sure that you follow all the guidelines and tasks required to submit your dissertation. These are detailed in the following document.
http://www.comp.dit.ie/btierney/MScDissertations/Softbound%20Dissertation%20&%20Presentation%20-%20Check%20List.pdf

Programme Committee Meeting

Some classes may start 10 - 15 minutes late today due to a Programme Committee meeting. Classes will take place, however.

Room Change for Dissertation Support Sessions

The dissertation support sessions will now be in room KA-3-020.

See the previous post for the dates and times for these sessions.

Brendan

Online Module Selection

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FOR FULL TIME STUDENTS ONLY
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By now you should have received an email from DIT asking you to use the online module selection system to check and, if necessary, correct your SEMESTER 1 module registrations. It is important that you complete this task by the deadline of Friday the 30th of November, as otherwise it can cause complications at exam time. Please note you only need to consider semester 1 modules now. 

Accenture Consulting Graduate Programme & Leaders of Tomorrow Award

Applications close on Sunday the 18th November for the Accenture Consulting Graduate Programme which includes Technology Consulting, Management Consulting and Analytics!

Key points to consider:
•        Starting Salary of €31,000 + Paid Overtime
•        Substantial investment in your training – including international training when you join
•        Our careers in consulting offer you a massive variety of experience across all industries
•        Wide range of social clubs – from surfing to rugby to golf

Visit accenture.com/irelandgraduates to apply now!

Applications for the Accenture Leaders of Tomorrow Award close on Friday the 23rd November. If you have an interesting business idea you’d like to develop, we will mentor you through the process and help you prepare to pitch your idea to a panel of Irish business leaders! The overall winners will take part in the Accenture Leadership Experience Tour to some of Accenture's global innovation centres followed by an Incubation Internship with Accenture to develop their business idea. Participation in the Award also accelerates your entry (straight to the final round) to a career in Accenture!

Visit www.accenture.com/lot

Man & Machine Module

The Man & Machine module, that many people have selected as an optional module for next semester, will take place on Tuesday evenings from 18:30 - 21:30.

Some Class Reps Still Needed

We have not yet had a volunteer for class rep for the following programmes:

-- Part-time Data Analytics
-- Part-time Advanced Software Development
-- Part-time Information & Knowledge Management

I know that you are all very busy already, but it is important that each programme has a class rep. The main role as class rep is to attend the Programme Committee meetings (one per semester) to represent the views of the class.

So, please consider volunteering. To do so, just email brian.macnamee@dit.ie.

Dissertation Support Sessions

The message is primarily for students who wish to commence their MSc Dissertation in Semester 2 & previously had a proposal that was not ready.

The dates given below are not for students who are currently taking Research Methods and Proposal Writing in Semester 1. There are different dates for you. Ask your lecturer.

The aim of these support sessions is to assist students who have their dissertation proposal either finished or nearly finished.

The deadline for submitting of proposals is 21st January deadline.

If you would like to get your proposal approved in advance of this date (and avoid the presentation in February) then these session are an opportunity for you to meet to discuss your proposal. We can identify any possible issues that will need more research in order to complete your proposal.

Remember if you get your proposal approved then you get some preliminary work completed in advance of formally starting in Semester 2.

If you are still in the early days of developing your proposal or just an idea, you can still come along. But priority will be given to students who are either finish or nearly finished their proposal
I will be in room KE-4-008 (4th floor of Kevin St main building) between 5:30pm - 6:15pm on the following dates.

Monday 12th November
Monday 19th November
Monday 26th November
Monday 10th December

 

Damian Gordon's Lecture Notes

Hi all,

I was having a small bit of difficulty getting access to my web site for the past few weeks, and wasn't able to update my notes, but everything is up-to-date now ... sorry for the disruption in service....

Damian

http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/Courses.html

Room AU-3-030

In order to keep room AU-3-030 as a resource for MSc students we need to keep track of usage of the room. So, from next week there will be a sign-in clipboard in the room and we would like you to sign in when you use the room, noting the time that you arrive and the length of time that you expect to stay. This data will be used for absolutely no purpose other than generating aggregate data on how often the room is being used, so that we can make a data-driven argument for keeping AU-3-030 as an MSc resource.

Also, please continue to following the following rules regarding keys (again, this is important in maintaining this room as an MSc resource):

• The porters at the main Angier St. entrance hold the keys to AU-3-030.
• Students wishing to use AU-3-030 should borrow the key from the porter, open the room
  and return the key to the porter’s desk.
• When leaving AU-3-030, if you are leaving the room empty, you must ALWAYS borrow the
  key from the porter, lock the room and return the key to the porter’s desk.

Possible SAS Certified Base Programmer Credential Exam

The potential exists for us to run the SAS Certified Base Programmer for SAS 9 Credential exam in DIT for DIT students next semester. We will only do this if there is sufficient interest. Details of the Base Programmer credential are available at: http://support.sas.com/certify/creds/bp.html

This exam is only suitable for those with extensive, existing SAS programming experience and no classes or exam preparation will be available from DIT. If you would be interested in taking this exam, and have sufficient SAS programming experience (see the link above) please let me know at Brian.MacNamee@dit.ie.

Congratulations To Our New MSc Graduates

Congratulations to all of the MSc graduates who enjoyed their graduation ceremony over the weekend just passed. Great job everyone (we know some of you can't stop reading the blog)!

Temporary Position with Irish Times - Semantic Content Enrichment

The Irish Times have a temporary (8-12 weeks) role for an individual interested in the data mining/ semantic web / natural language processing/document classification space.

This will be part of a large project in which t the system that produces the newspaper and the system that produces the website will be replaced with an integrated CMS. They are also installing a Semantic Content Enrichment system called Temis into theeditorial workflow.  Temis will perform entity-extraction services over unstructured article data sets and suggest people, places, companies, organisations, stock-tickers and categories.

The role to train the Temis engine is in two parts:

1)     Load up as many dictionary terms we can find , particularly relating to Irish localisation

      e.g. Dail, Taoiseach

2)   The more involved task of training the engine to recognise Irish Times articles and

      categorise them as per an agreed Irish Times topic list e.g. Articles about the Central

      Mental Hospital in Dundurm should be categorised under Mental Health.


      Here are some links to the Content Enrichment’s website:

            http://www.temis.com/index.php?id=95&selt=1

            http://www.temis.com/index.php?id=235&selt=1

If you are interested email the project manager, Claire McMahon (claire.mcmahon@gmail.com)

Penalty For Late Registrations

The deadline for DIT registrations is October 31st. Students registering after this date will face a €200 penalty and will not be given the opportunity to pay in installments. Further details are available here: http://www.dit.ie/registration/http://www.dit.ie/registration/

If you haven't done so yet, please register now!

Would You Like To Be A Class Rep?

Each class cohort in DIT has a class rep to help represent the class to the rest of the institute. the students union have some useful information on class rep duties here: http://www.ditsu.ie/union/class-reps/

We need a class rep for each class cohort on each of our MSc streams:

• Full-time Data Analytics
• Full-time Advanced Software Development
• Part-time Data Analytics
• Part-time Advanced Software Development
• Part-time Information & Knowledge Management

If you would like to act as a class rep could you please let me know by next Tuesday (23rd October) via email (Brian.MacNamee@dit.ie) indicating your stream and class cohort. I will organise elections if required.

DIT VPN Access For School of Computing Postgraduate Students

School of Computing students are offered VPN access to allow them access local computing resources such as the application servers used in some classes fro outside the DIT campus. Details on how to make a VPN connection are given at:

http://www.dit.ie/computing/studentresources/vpnaccess/

Please pay particular attention to the points made at this website about limited access to tech support for this service.

Trinity College - Innovation and Technologies Showcase 4th October

Trinity College Dublin’s Technology Transfer Office will be hosting  the annual Innovation and Technologies Showcase in the O’Reilly Institute on Thursday 4th October 2012,  from 4-8pm

Trinity researchers will showcase innovative ideas, technologies, products and processes at different stages in the commercial pipeline and derived from a wide range of disciplines across College.

30+ projects will be showcases


http://trinityshowcase.eventbrite.ie/?goback=%2Egde_3241550_member_171297136&ebtv=C

Idiro Technologys Presentation & Jobs

Aidan Connolly, the CEO of Idiro Technologies will be be giving a presentation on Monday 15th October @18:30 in KE-4-008, for about 30 minutes

He will be giving an overview of Idiro Technologies, what Predictive Analytics work they do, the type of projects they do and some of their customers. All their work is in the are of Social Network Analysis.

Idiro are expanding and are looking to hire a number of people with skills in software development, statistics, high performance computing and databases.

Come along if you are interested (with a copy of your CV)

Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling Class Oct 8th

Class this evening will be in KA-3-005 (lab on 3rd floor) @ 18.30

Talk on Monday by Mobile Telecoms Analytics Expert

Victor Carey, customer insight manager at Three Ireland, will give a presentation in DIT on "How Three Ireland is Finding Ways to Action Segmentation Results. The presentation will take place as part of Brendan Tierney's Data Mining class on Monday the 8thof October at 18:30 in room KE-4-008 in Kevin St.

This talk should offer a valuable insight into how analytics results are put into practice in large, dynamic organizations. Please come along if interested.

Visualisation Class in KA-3-008 Today

Tonight's Visualisation class will take place in the lab in KA-3-008.

Web Application Architectures - Self Study Questions

The class is cancelled this week. Please use this opportunity to catch up with Java and
Web Development if you did not study/work in this area before. The questions asked
here are mostly technical questions. You may try to write programs to help answer
your questions.


Java Questions

What is the difference between procedural and object-oriented programs?
What are Encapsulation, Inheritance and Polymorphism?
What is the difference between Assignment and Initialization?
What are Class, Constructor and Primitive data types?
What is an Object and how do you allocate memory to it?
What is the difference between constructor and method?
What are methods and how are they defined?
What is casting?
What is method overloading and method overriding?
What is meant by Inheritance and what are its advantages?
What is the difference between this() and super()?
What is the difference between superclass and subclass?
What is an abstract class?
What is the difference between Integer and int?
What is the difference between abstract class and interface?
What is the difference between Array and vector?
What is the difference between exception and error?


Web Questions

How do you edit and debug an HTML file?
What is the difference between an HTTP GET and HTTP POST?
What is the full structure of a URL (URI)?
What is a domain name?
What is an IP address?
What is the default HTTP port and how can this port be changed from both client side
and server side?
What kind of HTTP request does the <a href="url">text</a> generate?
What are the typical tags that are used to create an HTML form?
How can you create an HTML table with 3 columns and 5 rows?
What are the common user behaviors when they are browsing a web page?
What is JavaScript and why is it used?


Database Questions

What is SQL?
What are SELECT, INSERT, and UPDATE statements?
How can you compare a part of the name rather than the entire name?
What is ERD?
What is primary key?
What is foreign key?
What are DDL and DML?
What is a database schema?
How do you execute a DDL script in MySQL?
In a typical database system for a grocery shop, how do you find out the following
information using a SELECT statement: Confectionery Brand, Unit Price, Supplier’s
Name, and Stock Level?

Web Application Architectures cancelled for Oct 2nd

The lecture for Web Application Architectures for Tuesday 2nd October is cancelled.   The class will be made up at a later date, arrangements to be confirmed by the lecturer.

Research Writing and Scientific Literature & Problem Solving, Saturday Classes: Change of Start Time

From 6th October classes for Research Writing and Problem Solving will start at 9.30 for the morning
session and 13.30 for the afternoon session.

Please check http://webtimetables.dit.ie for location of Research Writing.

Senior Developer wanted in Oracle

Oracle are currently recruiting for a Senior Software Engineer to join our European Development Centre in Dublin 3.

See attached link to the job description for more details:
https://emeajobs.oracle.com/pls/webdep_www/wd_portal.show_job?p_web_site_id=582&p_web_page_id=130077

Msc/ASD Full Time - Programming and Paradigms Class 27th September Cancelled

Hi all,

  the next class for Programming and Paradigms, scheduled for Thursday afternoon is cancelled and it will be rescheduled for next week.

Job Bridge position with Revenue

Revenue has a position available under the Jobs Bridge scheme for a Data Analyst (Researcher)

Go to

http://intern.jobbridge.ie

Search for 'Data Analyst (Researcher)'   Ref. INTE-708095

You will find all the details about the position there and how to apply.

Students taking Geographic Information Systems - HOW-TO guide to help you access the various services you'll need

To all DT249 and MSc students taking Geographic Information Systems
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The following is a quick HOW-TO guide to help you access the various
services you'll need.

Rgds,
Mark.

Access to DIT network from outside DIT network (VPN)
----------------------------------------------------
- go to ditnet.dit.ie
- there is an instructional video at
http://www.dit.ie/computing/studentresources/vpnaccess/
- this is a direct link to the login page -
https://ditnet.dit.ie/dana-na/auth/url_default/welcome.cgi

Access to GIS server (needs VPN)
--------------------------------
- From a computer running Windows 7:
- Start->All Programs->Accessories->Remote Desktop Connection
- Server URL is cork.ict.ad.dit.ie
- if you expand this dialog box you can save a profile containing the
server URL, your Log In and the domain (ICTDOMAIN)

Access to material on Webcourses (doesn't need VPN)
---------------------------------------------------
- https://idp.dit.ie/idp/Authn/UserPassword
or
- http://www.dit.ie/webcourses

If you forget your password
---------------------------
- go to mypassword.dit.ie
- you need to register for this to use it

Access to ESRI Virtual Campus (Online GIS course)
-------------------------------------------------
- go to training.esri.com

- go to "My Training"->"Create new account"
- follow instructions to create "ESRI Global Account"
- IMPORTANT: Use your DIT UserId as your ESRI ID.
- IMPORTANT: Use your DIT email address
- These are important so that I can track your progress and allocate
marks. It's IN YOUR INTEREST to get this right.

- to access ESRI course material
- go to "My Training"->"Login"->"My Virtual Campus Training".
- under "Start a New Web Course" enter the code that I gave you to
activate the module. Press "GO", ENTER will not work.
- "Learning ArcGIS Desktop (for ArcGIS 10)" should appear on your
"Courses In Progress" list.

Fee Implications of Exemptions and Deferrals

In response to some queries here is clarification with regard to the fee implications of deferrals and exemptions for part-time students:

• Exemptions: Students that receive an exemption for a module must pay a fee for that module. 

• Deferrals: Students that defer a module that they have registered for and paid for are not entitled to a fee refund. 

We strongly recommend that students take the option to pay only half fees at the beginning of the first semester to allow flexibility in case of a change of mind at the beginning of the following semester.

Change of Day: Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling, Knowledge Management Tools & Techniques

From next Monday (Sept 24th)
Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling will be on Monday in KA-G-026 from 18.30 to 21.30
Knowledge Management Tools and Techniques will be on Wednesday in KE-1-005 from 18.30 to 21.30

(Please note, when viewing the timetable for Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling the room shown initially is the lab we will be using occasionally through the  module, please click on the item to view all details of the timetable including the main room and times)

Case Studies in Computing - Room Moved

The first Case Studies in Computing session of the year will kick off this Saturday the 22nd of September at 10:00 AM (sharp!!!). The venue has moved to KE 1-008. This is the corner lecture theatre on the first floor in the Kevin Street main building.

See you then.

Robert

First Probability & Statistical Inference Class

The first Probability & Statistical Inference class will take place in KA-G-028 this evening (Tuesday).

Research Writing and Scientific Literature - Part-time Class

For those who missed class on Saturday all the material you need is available at
http://www.comp.dit.ie/dlawless/rwsl.html
(We will be revisiting a lot of the material covered in later lectures and will be starting to tackle the assignment in class next week)

For exact dates please refer to the schedule published under Important Documents as part of this blog.

From Saturday 22nd September, students following Advanced Software Development and Information and Knowledge Management routes should attend the morning session starting @ 10.00 in KE-3-007a,
those following Data Analytics should attend the afternoon session starting @ 14.00 in KE-3-007a.
Any continuing students should normally attend the afternoon session, however if you need to request a change please contact me directly.

Data Mining module 17th Sept room

Our first call will be in KE-4-008 this evening

Part-time Induction & Fee Advice

Thanks to everyone who came along to the part-time induction session on Saturday, and once again welcome to DIT.

On Saturday most people confirmed modules for semester 2 or changed module choices from the default set, and so will receive an updated fee amount from DIT registrations in the coming weeks. Based on this new amount you will be given the option to pay half now and half at the beginning of semester 2 (approximately the end of February). We strongly recommend that you take this option.

Programming & Paradigms class moved

For all DT228A/ASD students:

The timing of the Programming & Paradigms class has changed to 10am on Tuesday and the location has moved to room 3-030 in Aungier Street.
This is different from the details given to you at the induction - please note the change.  Webtimetables is up-to-date.

Systems Architecture on Mon 17th not on

The Systems Architecture module will not start next week so the class scheduled for the evening of Monday 17th Sept will not be on.

Updated Dissertation Presentation Schedule

This schedule is only for students who are presenting their completed dissertation.

Student Name	MSc	Presentation Date	Presentation  Time
Karl O'Keeffe	AT - DT202	Tuesday 11th September	10:30-11:10
Sarah O'Reilly	AT - DT202	Tuesday 11th September	11:10-11:50
Michelle Moloney	AT - DT202	Tuesday 11th September	11:50-12:30
Anita Foley	AT - DT202	Tuesday 11th September	12:30-13:10
Conor Brennan	AT - DT202	Tuesday 11th September	13:10-13:50
Sean Loughran	AT - DT202	Tuesday 11th September	2:00-2:40
Sarah Keane	DA - DT286	Tuesday 11th September	2:40-3:20
Stephen Horan	IT - DT210	Tuesday 11th September	3:20-4:00
Peadar Fitzpatrick	IT - DT210	Wednesday 12th September	9:00-9:40
Alain Muhire	KM - DT217	Wednesday 12th September	9:40:10:20
Mojtaba Akbari	IT - DT210	Wednesday 12th September	10:30-11:10
Tom Grey	KM - DT217	Wednesday 12th September	11:10-11:50
Orna Nicholl	KM - DT217	Wednesday 12th September	11:50-12:30
Niall Murphy	KM - DT217	Wednesday 12th September	12:30:1:10
Cao, Chenjie.	DT285	Wednesday 12th September	2:00 - 2:40
Kuanyshev, Tair.	DT285	Wednesday 12th September	2:40 - 3:20
Cregan, Brendan.	DT230A	Wednesday 12th September	3:20 - 4:00

You will have a maximum of 20 minutes for your presentations and this will be followed by 10 minutes of questions.

Please turn up 10 minutes before your time slot and wait outside the door.

The presentations will be held at the School of Computing office on the 3^rd floor of the annex building.

Make sure to have your presentation on a USB key.

MSc Proposal Presentations

The following is the Proposal presentation schedule.

David Hendrick	Tuesday 11th September	17:15-17:45
Mariano, Lira, M.	Tuesday 11th September	17:45-18:15
Deirdre Behan	Tuesday 11th September	18:15-18:45
Chiwing Ng	Tuesday 11th September	18:45-19:15
Shay Foody	Tuesday 11th September	19:15-19:45
Gabriel Lawless	Tuesday 11th September	19:45-20:15
Moronke Fajobi	Wednesday 12th September	17:15-17:45
Anthony Daly	Wednesday 12th September	17:45-18:15
Peter Clarke	Wednesday 12th September	18:15-18:45
Kendlin, Frank.	Wednesday 12th September	18:45-19:15
Haidurova, Jelena.	Wednesday 12th September	19:15-19:45

We have to work to a very tight schedule here in DIT, so there can be no alterations to the schedule.

You will have a maximum of 12 minutes for your presentation and this will be followed by 10 minutes  of discussion.

The presentations will be in the School of Computing meeting room, which is located at the School of Computing office on the 3^rd floor of the annex build.

Please turn up 10 minutes before your allotted time and wait outside the door.

Bring your presentation on a USB key.