Dubstarts Start-up Jobs Fair

Dubstarts Start-up Jobs Fair is an interesting event that might be of interest to you. The upcoming event will feature 30 of Ireland's most promising start-ups in attendance and looking to hire. The list of previous attendees includes Swrve, Boxever, Newswhip, Soundwave, BulletHQ and Fieldaware. The last Dubstarts event in November resulted in 20 hires as well as over 50 internships, many of which lead to full time jobs. The upcoming event will feature 30 of Ireland's most promising start-ups in attendance and looking to hire. The event is aimed specifically at students, and provides an excellent opportunity to get involved in the start-up scene in Ireland.

The next event is on April 23rd. For more information visit www.dubstarts.com.

Exam Timetable - changes

The  Kevin Street Semester 2 Exam Timetable  has changed to move the Machine Learning exam to earlier during the exam session.    Please check it to make sure you are aware of your exam dates.

Removing all doubts: Man and Machine is on!

Hi all,

there definitely is a Man and Machine class this weekend, I appreciate it's a bank holiday weekend, so I'll make sure there's a festival feeling to the class!

Send me an e-mail (Damian.Gordon[at]dit.ie) if you can't make it.

Damian

Class Rep for DT228B

Could you let me know (andrea.f.curley@dit.ie) if there is currently a class rep for DT228B?

Thanks,
Andrea

DIT Annual College Teaching Awards

DIT College Teaching Awards are made to recognise quality in teaching practice of individuals or teams of DIT staff. All DIT staff involved in teaching are eligible for this award. Winners are announced at College Boards and Academic Council and awards presented at the relevant Graduation Ceremonies;

The College Awards process normally commences with the Call for nominations in February each year and concludes in September with the College reviews of shortlisted applicants. Each applicant submitting for an award must include both a student and a colleague’s recommendation with their application. For more information about the awards see http://www.dit.ie/lttc/awards/

The student online nominations for awards is underway and will close on 11March.  The link to the student nomination form is available from http://www.survey.bris.ac.uk/dit/collegeawards

FAO Programming for Big Data Class

The Programming for Big Data class from tomorrow for the next 4 weeks will be doing Hadoop programming.    The Hadoop programming will be done on a Ubuntu virtual machine within VirtualBox, a free virtualisation product that can run on Mac or Windows.  If you want to take a copy of the VM home you need to bring a USB key with you.   The key we recommend is the Transcend 700 series 16GB - it is available at RightClick, 70 Lower Camden Street and costs €20. This key has fast I/O access and you can run the VM from the key.

The class will be in Lab KA-1-015.

Man and Machine forum

Hi all,

I've created a forum the Man and Machine module that
has the assignment posted to it. If you are interested in
doing any of the group-based questions, post to the blog,
or send me an e-mail at Damian.Gordon@dit.ie:
http://manandmachine.freeforums.net/

If see any interesting articles, feel free to post to the blog also:
http://interfacesusabilityaccessibility.blogspot.ie/

and just in case you can't find my notes, they are here:
http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/Courses/ManAndMachine/

Damian

DIT Data Analaytics Club Meet-Up

The DIT Analytics Club real live meet-up has been rescheduled to March 7th at 20:30 in Peader Kearney's pub on Dame St. (http://www.peadarkearneys.com/). The session will involve talks and demos about analytics and a panel session on pressing questions about the Irish analytics scene. 

All are welcome on the night.  Even more interestingly, if you would like to give a short talk or demo on the night (about 10 minutes) please let Brian.MacNamee@dit.ie know.