Problem Solving Assignment #1 (DT228A and DT228B)

Hi all,

The due date for Assignment #1 is the later of the two dates, but if you want to try to get it done by the earlier date, that's aright also, I won't mind.

DT228B class -> Please believe Ciara from now on.

Damian

BearingPoint Open Evening

BearingPoint are hosting an open evening next week for students. You may be interested in attending. Please see the correspondence from BearingPoint:

As you know BearingPoint regularly recruits graduates from Computing and Computer Science courses.  We are holding an open evening on Thursday 5 November and we would like to invite your students to the event to gain a unique insight into what it is like to work in technology consulting and enjoy some delicious craft beers and pizza in our boardroom!  The event will take place in our offices (see address details below) from 5.00pm for approximately 1.5hours.

This is an excellent opportunity for your students: 

·        To meet experienced and graduate staff who can help them understand what it is really like to work in the technology solutions and consulting industry

·        To get a flavour for the types of projects BearingPoint helps clients with and ask any questions they might have about how to launch their career

·        Oh, and of course... enjoy some delicious craft beers & pizza

Craft Beers, Pizza and an Introduction to Technology Consulting with BearingPoint http://bit.ly/1POSfZ4  5 November 2015 @ 5.00pm

Internet of Things Enterprise Challenge

DIT, in collaboration with IBM, Bell Labs and The Greenway, are hosting an Internet of Things Enterprise Challenge which will take place in the DIT Grangegorman campus  on Friday October 30th starting at 8.00am and finishing at 6.30pm.

Present on the day will be some of the leading Small Medium and Large Enterprises in the IoT space with genuine problems they need resolved. IoT is a growing area of interest for many companies and it is anticipated that this space will be an underpinning element for most jobs in most sectors in the near future.

It is hoped that the teams on the day will be multidisciplinary.

The link to the event

MSc Study Room

The application form for the MSc Study room is on the left of the blog. To gain access to the MSc study room, KE-B-004, students will need to complete the application form on the MSc blog and drop it, with their student card, in to Jimmy Kane (Ext 4797). He is in the basement of the main Kevin St. building beside the ramp.

Part time students can submit their forms and cards to the School office and we will arrange for access.

Students who had requested access last year will continue to have access this year and do not need to resubmit the form.

Free Talk on Quantum Computing

Dear students, 

you might be interested in this event:

Eric Ladizinsky, chief scientist at DWave, the Quantum Computer Company, will be in Dublin to give a free public lecture in the Burke Theatre in Trinity College at 7pm on 5^th November.

Here is his WIRED2014 talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLJ38KDS4Pc

Admission is free but booking is essential at www.ria.ie

The event is organised by the Royal Irish Academy; Embassy of Canada and the Irish Centre for High End Computing.

Regards

Bianca

Probability and Stats Part-time Class Tuesday 13th October

We are back in the classroom KA-G-028 this evening to start with.

Graduate Software Developer with LotusWorks

LotusWorks currently have an opportunity in Galway for a Graduate Software Developer - job specification.

DT228B - Data Management Webcourses Module

The Data Management module for DT228B (Part-Time - Wednesday evenings) is now available on Webcourses.

Please let me know if you have any issues accessing it.

Brian

Data Management Slides for Lecture 4

Slides for Lecture 4 available here

Probability and Statistical Inference (Part-time Students)

The class tomorrow Tuesday October 5th 2015 will be in the labs KA-3-006 and KA-3-005

I will post a set of notes for you to work through using SPSS in the Webcourses module.