Guest Seminars Thursday March 1st @ 17.00 Locations

The Distinct Consulting seminar will be in KA-G-027
Maciej Wasiak,  Bronagh Riordan and Gina Cassidy from Distinct Consulting
will present a session aimed at the Data Analytics stream in KA-G-027

Kai Matturi from Concern will present a session aimed at the Information and KM
stream  in KE-1-014 (1st floor main building)
This session will cover topics other than KM including content re use of mobile technology
in Concern projects in Africa

Both start at 17.00 and will last approx 1 hour

Visualisation (PT) - Review Week - date change

***For Part-Time Visualisation students only***

Hi,

It was decided at the end of last night's class that Review Week would be shifted from 5th March to 19th March in order to get up some momentum with the lab exercises.

Next week will be a normal session (5 March, 18:30-21:30) during which you will try out the "Relationship" exercise.

Regards,
Colman

Research Writing and Scientific Literature Class Tuesday Feb 28th

The class tomorrow will be a problem based session on Academic Writing.
It will be held in KA-3-008 (lab in the Annexe building)

You will be required to review material in class and create a written piece as
a result. You will be working in groups.

There are two papers selected per stream. You can choose one or the other or both.
If you require these on paper please print them and bring to class.

All the material you need is available via the calendar
https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=i1un9qg865i7ufar14l848e04s%40group.calendar.google.com&ctz=Europe/Dublin

If you need your CS account reset please email support@dit.ie with your student
number and mention in the email that you are a School of Computing student.

School of Computing Project Fair

The school holds a project fair annually to which industry representatives are invited.
Students can present projects they have completed for dissertation or interesting work
completed as continuous assessment on modules.

A number of students are completing or have already completed interesting projects that
would fit well into the school fair.

It would be a good opportunity to advertise your work and make valuable contacts
with industry.

Ocuco will sponsor this years fair to the value of €5000.


The fair this year will be held on March 28th from 9 to 4 in the Gleeson Hall.

More details are available at http://www.comp.dit.ie/website07/news.php?id=231
If you are interested in participating please contact Mark Deegan mark.deegan@dit.ie
as soon as possible.

If you are not interested in participating please feel free to go along on the day
and see the type of work being completed in the School.

The following is a link to a short YouTube video on projects included last year http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-4Tt1EwVvc

Guest Seminars for MSc students March 1st @ 17.00

Two guests will give seminars for MSc students only on Thursday March 1st
@ 17.00 this week.

Maciej Wasiak,  Bronagh Riordan and Gina Cassidy from Distinct Consulting
will present a session aimed at the Data Analytics stream

Kai Matturi from Concern will present a session aimed at the Information and KM
stream.

Both sessions will cover topics that would be of interest to UDAT and ASD also.
They will talk about the type of projects they are currently involved in, potential
ideas for dissertation and typical career paths.

Each session will be approx 1 hr in length with a 30-40 min presentation followed
by an opportunity for questions.

These will be part of the scheduled Research Methods and Proposal Writing class.
I will post details of location of each session to the blog http://ditmsc.blogspot.com


All students are welcome whether intending to start a dissertation soon or not.

Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling - Previous Student Topics

The following lists some previous topics covered by students for Knowledge Acquisition and Knowledge Representation projects which should be helpful in identifying a topic and scope of the assessment for Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling this semester.
https://docs.google.com/file/d/0B-RIxfFpDs08UFREZ29YSUlRYUdKTjdhQkRlM2lZUQ/edit?pli=1

Students Learning With Communities Projects

The Students Learning With Communities group within DIT have identified a number of projects with partners which may be of interest to some of you for assignment work or as potential dissertation projects.

The projects suggested are listed in :
http://tinyurl.com/slwcprojects


If you are interested and have not already been in touch with me please email me before Wednesday Feb 29th. I will then arrange for those interested to meet with Catherine from SLWC to take it to the next stage.




Regards
Deirdre

Dates for Saturday Classes - CONFIRMED

There has been some confusion over the dates for the modules that are scheduled for Saturday delivery.  These are confirmed with room numbers below:

Universal Design:  Sat 4th Feb;  Sat 10th Mar;  Sat 31st Mar;   Sat 28th Apr;  
Room: Kevin St Annexe 3-005

Case Studies:  Sat 11th Feb;  Sat 3rd Mar;   Sat 24th Mar;  Sat 12th May;
Room: Kevin St Main Building 3-008

Security:  Sat 25th Feb;  Sat 31st Mar,   Sat 21st Apr;  Sat 5th May;
Room: Kevin St Annexe 3-023

IT Security module class on Saturday (25th Feb) will be in Kevin Street - Annexe - 3-023 from 9:00am to 3:00pm

Student Dissertation Survey - Request for Participation

Chong Liu an MSc Student within the school would like assistance with 
his research project which is to research a Knowledge Management System 
for students of MSc programmes within the School.
If you could spare a few minutes to complete his brief survey that would be a great 
help:


http://tinyurl.com/cliumscsurvey

Technical Support (including reset of CS domain passwords)

In order to get technical support of any kind including password resets you need to email support@dit.ie or
phone  +353-1-402-3123


Please use your DIT student email address where possible and include School of Computing in the detail
of the email so that your request can be channeled to the correct technicians.


Please make sure you check your DIT student email on a regular basis from this point on since it is the main channel of communication for examination information.

Free online part-time courses

Courtesy of Peter Clarke a current MSc student of ours, these are free online part-time courses
from MIT, Stanford and Caltech.

Some really interesting stuff.

Udacity 

http://www.udacity.com/

Stanford

Computer Science 101 http://www.cs101-class.org/

Machine Learning (one of the offerings this past fall) http://jan2012.ml-class.org/

Software as a Service http://www.saas-class.org/

Human-Computer Interaction http://www.hci-class.org/

Natural Language Processing http://www.nlp-class.org/

Game Theory http://www.game-theory-class.org/

Probabilistic Graphical Models http://www.pgm-class.org/

Cryptography http://www.crypto-class.org/

          

Non-computer science courses:

The Lean Launchpad http://www.launchpad-class.org/

Technology Entrepreneurship http://www.venture-class.org/

Information Theory http://www.infotheory-class.org/

Model Thinking http://www.modelthinker-class.org/

Making Green Buildings http://www.greenbuilding-class.org/

Anatomy http://www.anatomy-class.org/

VPN Access for part time students

As part of a pilot scheme all part time MSc students have been given access to the DIT internal network via a Virtual Private Network.

Instructions on how to access it are available here.

Please do not contact support@dit.ie if you are having issues.  There is limited support for this service at present.  If you have difficulty accessing the VPN service please first ensure that you are fully registered and have followed the video tutorial.

Room for Web Applications Architectures

All classes for Web Application Architectures will be in KA-1-016
Lab 016 on the 1st floor of the Annexe building

Congratulations to all on Exam Results

Dear All

Many congratulations on your results.

The performance overall has been extraordinarily good and reflects the strong effort you put in.

Many thanks again for your patience with the transition to the new programmes and the larger class sizes
this year.

Commiserations to those who feel they did not do so well. You will have another opportunity in
the supplemental session. Please contact your lecturers who will be happy to help you to prepare for this.


Best of luck for Semester 2.

Deirdre

Exam Results - FOI, Recheck, Appeal Process

You are entitled to view your exam script under Freedom of Information.

To request to view a script please email soc-admin@dit.ie stating the programme code and module name of the script you wish to view. A time will be arranged.

If you are unhappy with your result, first of all you should request to view your script. If you are still unhappy you can do the following

• request a re-check - your script will be re-totaled to check that all marks given have been included in the total
• request a re-mark - your script will be marked again from scratch
• appeal a result - if you feel you have grounds as listed on the appeals form that were not considered or not available to the board you can appeal the result. Please check the appeal form carefully for grounds and possible outcomes.

The steps are 1) view script 2) request recheck 3) request remark 4) appeal

All forms required are available at

http://www.dit.ie/services/qualityassuranceandacademicprogrammerecords/student-assessment-regulations/general/


Please Note: There is a time limit which applies to when you can or can't initiate this process. If you apply outside the time limit your request will not be granted. This time limit is detailed on the forms at the link above.

Regards

Deirdre

Semester 2 Registration - Payment

F.A.O fee paying part-time students

Registrations have now updated the vast majority of student records.

Requests to take additional modules in the last couple of days should be
complete tomorrow.

If you have requested changes to your record since September you need
to check online for the fee payable or contact registrations directly on
01 402 7000 to make payment before the end of the week.

Details of who can proceed to dissertation were sent to registration yesterday.

Regards

Deirdre

Assistive Technology Professional Skills

Hi all,

the notes for Assistive Technology Professional Skills
will be put up here:

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

and here:
http://www.slideshare.net/DamianGordon1

Damian

Knowledge Acquisition and Modelling Feb 1st

This class will start this evening @ 18.30 in KA-3-022

There is a Google Calendar for the class. All lectures are events on the calendar. If you click the event and more details you will see the notes attached.
Calendar available at  http://tinyurl.com/kamodelling