Events of Interest 24th and 25th November 2011

Two events of interest from Dr. Bryan Duggan:

On Thursday:

Michael Meagher, Academic Engagement manager from Microsoft Ireland
will be in DIT on Thursday 24th @ 1pm in room 4-008 (K408) to give a
presentation on the Imagine Cup competition. The Imagine Cup is the
worlds largest student software development competition. It was won by
a team from IT Sligo last year (at the worldwide finals in New York).
A team from DIT School of Computing represented Ireland at the
worldwide finals in Poland the year before with their project
Imaginote:
http://www.facebook.com/imaginote
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ReKoyJcfRXA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cdehtXx9PVs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGU-1-kcrgU
All students should attend!

On Friday:
State of Play - Indie Game Development Seminar Friday 25th November (6pm - 8pm)
Various indie game development companies will present
- Open Emotion (http://www.openemotionstudios.com/)
- RedWind (http://www.redwindsoftware.com/web/index.html)
- Pufferfish Games (http://www.pufferfishgames.com/powergrid/)
- Bitsmith Games (http://www.bitsmithgames.com/)
- Weeman Studios(http://www.weemanstudios.com/)
- Simplelifeforms Games (http://www.simplelifeforms.com/)
- Zinc Software (http://www.zincsoftware.com/)
- Nevermind Games (http://www.nevermindgames.com/)
- Digital Arrow (http://digital-arrow.com/)
- SuperfunPlay games (http://www.superfunplay.com/)
http://www.gamedevelopers.ie/calendar/viewevent.php?article=526
This will be a great event for anyone interested in getting into
games/apps development
Register your place!
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dHBkUmhnX1NoNmJfWklSYlVVS2NLb0E6MQ

Building the Future. AHEAD

Building the Future. AHEAD.

Fri, November 11, 10am – 5pm

Where Hosted by Bank of Ireland, Grand Canal Quay, Dublin 2. map Calendar ditcampuslife@gmail.com Description This event aims to help graduates with disabilities polish their job seeking skills and give them some invaluable pointers o successfully adjusting to the world of work and building a fulfilling career. High profile employers such as Gogole, Citi, ESB, Sigmar Recruitment, Bord Gais, Abbott Ireland, Covidien and others will be on hand to speak to graduates one on one about their expectations as emplyers and will field questions relating to their organisations and sectors. This event is free of charge but booking is essential. Registration closes on the 4th November. For more information and online registration details, please visit www.ahead.ie/buildingthe future2011.

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

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