ODCSSS 2007

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News Item on Internships: How to Turn that IT Internship into an IT Job

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:24:02 +0100

How to Turn that IT Internship Into an IT Job

....Using a few tips from IT recruiters, students can maximize their chances of converting an unpaid internship into a full-time job offer. While internships are a great way to get your foot in the door of an organization, not all interns are offered full-time positions. According to the National Association of Colleges and Employers, one out of every three new hires from the 2007 graduating class landed their first job with a company they'd previously interned for. With that in mind, the article summarizes what to do – and what not to do – during an internship.

Most importantly, you must know what kind of internship you have and the expectations your employer has surrounding that internship. Some organizations use internships as a form of campus recruiting where there is a direct path from internship to full-time employment. Others view it differently, as more of an outreach effort to local universities. Secondly, you will need to network aggressively. If someone is rooting for you within the organization, you will have a better chance of convincing an employer to hire you on a full-time basis. Finally, you should use every opportunity possible to learn additional skills.

However, don’t annoy your manager by lobbying incessantly for a job. When you're in an internship, you have to know your place. Lobbying for a full-time position right away is almost a sure way not to be hired. While networking is encouraged during an internship, don’t gossip about other employees or date a co-worker. Also, you shouldn’t slack off during your idle time or become self-important in the way that you interact with co-workers....

Thankfully.. we pay ODCSSS interns... !

ODCSSS 2008: Offers sent to Students

Tue, 22 Apr 2008 21:22:21 +0100

Offers to 16 local, EU and International candidates have been sent out the past few days.

Odysseus 2008: "Technologies for Social Connectedness"

Tue, 13 Nov 2007 22:56:20 +0000

A call has gone out to the research investigators in both DCU and UCD for project proposals on Odysseus 2008 under the theme:

The Global Family; The Global Workplace
"Technologies for Social Connectedness"

In 2008 the program starts on Tuesday June 3rd and runs for twelve weeks. Applications from Irish and international students are sought. Students who are successful in their application will be offered an internship and will be paid 300 (Eur) per-week as a tax-free scholarship. Some international travel support is available and we can help with arranging on campus accommodation.

The primary goal of this school is to afford exceptional undergraduate students the opportunity to participate and contribute to exciting yet challenging research projects at leading research facilities and inspire them to go on to undertake research careers.

Applicants apply online and are selected based on their CV, motivations and references and they will be distributed to the projects according to their preferences. Applications for can only come through the website and are limited to 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students. Students who are offered an internship must attend a number of events during the summer (kick off day, midterm research day, final research day) and are expected to submit a final report, final poster and present during the course of the internship. They are also expected to participate in industrial and other site visits. There are a number of social events arranged which are after hours and are optional but we strongly encourage all participants to attend.

Post ODCSSS 2007: MONET'07 Publication

aquigley@ieee.org — Tue, 11 Sep 2007 17:39:02 +0100

Congratulations to Emil and his supervisor Jill and co-authors whose paper entitled "Realising Context-Sensitive Mobile Messaging" has been accepted to the workshop on MObile and NEtworking Technologies for social applications (MONET´07) Vilamoura, Algarve in November.

Workshop Theme:
"...recent years the research area of social mobile and networking technologies has made rapid progress, due to the increasing development of new mobile technologies and the widespread usage of the Internet as a new platform for social interactions. Social applications of mobile and networking technologies serve groups of people in shared activities, in particular geographically dispersed groups who are collaborating on some task in a shared context. An important characteristic of those social applications is the continuous interaction between people and technology to achieve a common purpose. Again social applications tend to be large-scale and complex, involving difficult social and policy issues such as those related to privacy and security access..."

Week 13: Post ODCSSS - Summer Awards...

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 29 Aug 2007 17:08:21 +0100

This message is relevant for ODCSSS as three of our 2007 alumni will be getting awards this Friday from Microsoft for the UCD CSI Summer Programming Contest.

From Joe Kiniry:

On this Friday, 31st of August at 10:00am in the CSI Boardroom Liam Cronin from Microsoft Ireland will be visiting us to award the prizes to the winners of this Summer's UCD CSI Programming Contest.
http://topos.ucd.ie/csic/

The prizes offered by Microsoft are Vista for the first place, Office 12 for the second place, and XBox games for the third place.

This year's winners are:
1. Minh Dinh
2. Rashid Bhamjee, Eugene Kenny, Eoin Murphy
3. Jakub Dostal, Kirill Ignatiev

Honorable mention: Fintan Fairmichael, Ross Shannon, Graham Williamson.

We'd also like to encourage any undergraduate students or faculty that are interested in learning more about the Microsoft Imagine Cup to come by and hear a brief talk about it and what Microsoft has been up to lately to encourage undergraduate participation in programming contests and similar.

We hope to organize several other programming contests in the coming months including one associated with the Imagine Cup, one with TopCoder, and another with the ACM regional competition. As a student, if you are interested in participating, or as a academic staff member or researcher, if you are interested in knowing what these organizations are up to and learn how you can help out, I encourage you to drop by.

Week 12: Final Farewell Social Event

aquigley@ieee.org — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:09:58 +0100

Our final social event for ODCSSS 2007 started with a visit to the Pav in Trinity College followed by a group event in the Porter House Temple Bar where many supervisors and mentors joined the students in a farewell drink.

Thanks to everyone who participated in ODCSSS this year! Please keep in touch as you progress through your studies and future career (in research we hope).

Week 12: Visit to the Irish Houses of the Oireachtas (Parliament of Ireland)

aquigley@ieee.org — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:09:44 +0100

Thanks to Senator Norris we had a tour of the Houses of the Oireachtas in Dublin (Parliament of Ireland). Included in this we had a comprehensive tour of Leinster House including both Dáil Éireann (the House of Representatives) and Seanad Éireann (the Senate). While this was a serious event for the final day of ODCSSS, it was an interesting experience for all the students to get a perspective on the Irish democratic system of government.

Week 12: Final Research Day

aquigley@ieee.org — Mon, 27 Aug 2007 21:06:42 +0100

Final Research Day Photo Gallery

Friday the 24th of August saw the final research day for the DCU-UCD ODCSSS UREKA research site. This event held at DCU attracted over 60 people and was of great interest to all. Starting with a prize giving ceremony and introductions the day progressed to the main research event which was held as a research poster session. The event finished with a certificate presentation to all 24 students who participated in this years research internship.

Week 12: ODCSSSS in ERCIM News (Europe)

aquigley@ieee.org — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 22:36:28 +0100

ERCIM News is the magazine of ERCIM. It reports on joint actions of the ERCIM partners, and aims to reflect the contribution made by ERCIM to the European Community in Information Technology. Through short articles and news items, it provides a forum for the exchange of information between the institutes and also with the wider scientific community. ERCIM News is published quarterly. The printed edition of the current number has a circulation of 11,000 copies.

This article on ODCSSS appeared in ERCIM News 70, the July 2007 issue with a Special theme: Service-Oriented Computing.

Science Foundation Ireland funded Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School

24 International Research Undergraduate Projects in Ireland for "Technologies for Aiding Human Memory".

ODCSSS the Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School is a paid research internship program for undergraduate students funded in part by the Science Foundation Ireland under their UREKA program. ODCSSS is a four-year collaborative internship program between the School of Computer Science and Informatics at the University College Dublin and the School of Computing at the Dublin City University.

The 2007 thematic focus of "Technologies for Aiding Human Memory" grew out of our experiences with the program in 2006. The 2006 students suggested the need for undergraduates to see a social impact from their work, not just academic results. In 2006 there were 17 students in the program, which has grown to 24 students in 2007. This year we had over 100 applications from around the world. In 2007 we have students coming from Universities in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand and the USA. The 2008 program opens for applications from 2nd and 3rd year undergraduate students in late 2007. Successful candidates are offered a tax-free scholarship of €300 per week (for 12 weeks) along with travel support.

The primary goal of this research program is to afford exceptional undergraduate students the opportunity to participate and contribute to exciting yet challenging research projects and to inspire them to go on to undertake research careers. Example projects in 2007 include, "Reminding Short-Term Memory Sufferers to Complete Routine Tasks" and "Using Multiple Sensors to Determine Posture". Past projects include "TableTop Tissue Micro Array Visualisation" and "Forensic speaker identification".

While focusing on world-class research, this internship provides the participants with exposure to a distributed, cooperative and collaborative research environment facilitated and supported by exchanges of the entire summer school cohort. Along with research seminars, research training, industrial lab visits, industrial research events, social events and research management seminars including intellectual property, patenting and commercialization.

Link:
http://www.odcsss.ie/

Week 12: MIT DARPA urban challenge project talk @ UCD

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 22 Aug 2007 00:44:18 +0100

Today we had a talk for a visiting academic who changed the schedule
for this talk so the ODCSSS students could attend before the end of
their internship.

"Team MIT: DARPA Urban Challenge 2007"

Speaker: John J. Leonard MIT (http://dgc.mit.edu)
Title: Team MIT: DARPA Urban Challenge 2007
Time: Wed, Aug 22nd, 2007, 1.00 pm
Venue: Complex & Adaptive Systems Laboratory UCD
Directions: http://casl.ucd.ie/
UCD CASL, 8 Belfield Office Park, Beaver Row, Clonskeagh, Dublin 4

Abstract:
This talk will provide an overview of MIT's entry in the 2007 DARPA
Urban Challenge. The goal of this effort is to produce a car that can
drive autonomously in traffic. Our team has developed a novel
strategy for using a large number of inexpensive sensors mounted on
the vehicle periphery. Lidar, camera, and radar data streams are
processed using an innovative, locally smooth state representation
that provides robust perception for real-time autonomous control. A
resilient planning and control architecture has been developed for
driving in traffic, comprised of an innovative combination of well-
proven algorithms for mission planning, situational planning,
situational interpretation, and trajectory control. These innovations
have been incorporated in two new robotic vehicles equipped for
autonomous driving in urban environments. Extensive testing has been
performed on a DARPA site visit course, and preparations are underway
to participate in DARPA's National Qualifying Event in October 2007.

Joint work with Seth Teller, Jon How, Emilio Frazzoli, David Barrett,
David Moore, Edwin Olson, Albert Huang, Yoshi Kuwata, Luke Fletcher,
Justin Teo, Gaston Fiore, Stefan Campbell, Troy Jones, and Keoni
Maheloni.

Biography:
John J. Leonard is Professor of Mechanical and Ocean Engineering at
MIT and a member of the MIT Computer Science and Artificial
Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL). His research addresses the problems
of navigation and mapping for autonomous mobile robots. He holds the
degrees of B.S.E.E. in Electrical Engineering and Science from the
University of Pennsylvania (1987) and D.Phil. in Engineering Science
from the University of Oxford (formally 1994). He studied at Oxford
under a Thouron Fellowship and Research Assistantship funded by the
ESPRIT program of the European Community. Prof. Leonard joined the
MIT faculty in 1996, after five years as a Post-Doctoral Fellow and
Research Scientist in the MIT Sea Grant Autonomous Underwater Vehicle
(AUV) Laboratory. He has participated in numerous field deployments of
AUVs, including under-ice operations in the Arctic and several major
experiments in the Mediterranean. He has served an associate editor
of the IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering and of the IEEE
Transactions on Robotics and Automation. He is the recipient of an
NSF Career Award (1998), an E.T.S. Walton Visitor Award from Science
Foundation Ireland (2004), and the King-Sun Fu Memorial Best IEEE
Transactions on Robotics Paper Award (2006).

Week 12: ODCSSS and IBM Extreme Blue Joint Research Day

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:41:00 +0100

ODCSSS -Technologies for Aiding Human Memory and Extreme Blue project presentation (20 Aug 10:30 GDT in Hamilton Auditorium)

Description

On the 20th August staff in IBM had an opportunity to see a selection of the "Technologies for Aiding Human Memory" projects being worked on by the ODCSSS students (http://www.odcsss.ie/) and a chance to see the progress to date of the Extreme Blue students.

This was a fantastic opportunity to see challenging projects up close and to comment and question the students.

A selection of the interesting and challenging ODCSSS projects that were presented is:

Wearable Memory Sensing Devices
Wayfinding with Holographic Directional Information Signs
A 3D User Interface for Improving Human Memory
Capture and Analysis of Biometric data to Aid Memory Augmentation with SenseCam
Developing m-learning assistance for small screen wireless devices
Using Multiple Sensors to Determine Posture
Development of a J2MEbased Mobile Daily Activity Reminder System

4 Extreme Blue projects were also presented. Details on these projects will appear here after the Extreme Blue expo in Sept 2007.

There was a a poster session after the presentations where all projects were be available for closer review. All the participants received a certificate and selected students were awarded Hamilton Coins.

Week 11: Four ODCSSS research Students Chosen to present at IBM

Fri, 17 Aug 2007 10:42:41 +0100

Today four students from ODCSSS (2 based in DCU and 2 in UCD) have been invited to present at the joint IBM-ODCSSS research day. This decision was taken based on draft research papers submitted by all students which the ODCSSS directors reviewed and then ranked. The top ranking students have been invited to present full presentations on their work at IBM and two of the four (based on votes on the day) will be awarded Hamilton Coins. These four are:

Tim Kersten, "Interactive Browsing for a Visual Diary"
Romain Muller "Mobile Daily Activity Reminder System"
Emil Varga "Forget me Not(es)"
David Martin: "Video Database of Irish Sign Language Performed by Native Signer"

Week 11: DCU-UCD Website Competition Winners

Thu, 16 Aug 2007 19:43:24 +0100

Week 11: ODCSSS Posters Printed

Tue, 14 Aug 2007 10:44:29 +0100

Today the 24 students from across ODCSSS submitted their final posters to the printers. These posters are being used at a joint research day with IBM on the 20th of August and then again for the final research day on the 24th of August in DCU. The students have put in a lot of work to the posters and the layout, research content and aesthetic reflects this. Congratulations to everyone for making this deadline.

Week 10: ODCSSS student wins UCD programming contest

Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:45:16 +0100

Minh Dinh an ODCSSS 2007 student won the annual UCD programming contest. Eoin Murphy who is an ODCSSS student was in a team placed 2nd and Jakub Dostal also from ODCSSS was in the 3rd placed team.

The following message on this came from Joe Kiniry the UCD staff member who arranged this programming contest.

On Friday 31st of August at 10:00am in the CSI Boardroom Liam Cronin from Microsoft Ireland are awarding the prizes to the winners of this Summer's UCD CSI Programming Contest.
http://topos.ucd.ie/csic/

The prizes offered by Microsoft are Vista for the first place, Office 12 for the second place, and XBox games for the third place.

This year's winners are:
1. Minh Dinh
2. Rashid Bhamjee, Eugene Kenny, Eoin Murphy
3. Jakub Dostal, Kirill Ignatiev

Honorable mention: Fintan Fairmichael, Ross Shannon, Graham Williamson.

Week 10: DCU Research Visit

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 10 Aug 2007 17:00:00 +0100

On the 10th of August ODCSSS had a comprehensive research visit to the facilities in DCU. Starting in the DCU Engineering building we visited the three main DCU and national research centres: AIC (Adaptive Centre), RINCE (Networks Centre) and NCSR (Sensors Centre). Students were shown many interesting and lead edge research projects. Thanks to all the staff and postgrads for hosting us on this day.

Week 10: ODCSSS Publications

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 08 Aug 2007 19:00:00 +0100

4 ODCSSS student projects are represented in two papers at the workshop Supporting Human Memory with Interactive Systems, at the British HCI 2007 conference in Lancaster in September. Caitie and Hristo had a paper entitled "Using colocation to support human memory" and Mukul and David had a paper entitled "Context-coded memories:
who, what, where, when, why" accepted.

Week 8: Research Pathways talk and social event

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 25 Jul 2007 18:00:00 +0100

Today we had a talk on research pathways after ODCSSS. This was a good opportunity to hear about a broad range of options inside and outside of academia. After the talk we had a farewell dinner for Mukul and Gaurav from India who joined ODCSSS early and had to return to start their new semester of study.

The talk ODCSSS pathways: "Pathways... where to from here?"

Had the following topics included:

Overview:
Independent Study - Final Year projects
Work (Resumes, Job Hunting)
Internships (pay, conditions)
REU - IBM Extreme Blue - CISCO
Postgrad Study in Ireland
Funding and models
Postgrad Study in UK
Postgrad Study in Australia
Funding
Postgrad Study in USA/Canada
Models
JET - EPIK etc. (pay, conditions and options)

Week 7: Mid Term Research Day

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 20 Jul 2007 20:00:00 +0100

On Friday the 20th of July we had 24 students based in DCU and UCD showing interactive posters of their work to date in week 7 of their 12 week research internships. All ODCSSS supervisors, mentors, postdocs, postgrads and others interested were invited and many attended. Over 60 people along with the 24 students attended.
Location: UCD CASL 3rd and 4th floors

See: Students Page on this: [ DCU Based Students ]

Week 5: MSR and Glendalough trip

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 04 Jul 2007 13:29:02 +0100

On July 4th ODCSSS 2007 all the ODCSSS 2007 students had a research visit to Microsoft Ireland followed by a social outing to Glendalough in Wicklow.

Microsoft’s European Product Development Centre in Sandyford, Dublin.
Since establishing its initial European manufacturing and distribution centre in Dublin in 1975, Microsoft Ireland has grown to become the largest software company in Ireland, employing over 1,200 highly skilled people. From its original mandate the Irish operations have grown to become a strategic hub in the Microsoft global network, servicing customers and partners in 70 countries across Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Today the company is a multi functional centre which manages a range of functions which now includes product development and localization, financial services, supply chain management, customer care, data hosting and sales and marketing. (text from IDA news release)

Week 5: Library Resources for Research in Comp Sci - UCD

aquigley@ieee.org — Mon, 02 Jul 2007 07:24:00 +0100

Today Josh Clark from library services UCD gave a talk on use of online library resources such as the Comp Sci subject portal http://www.ucd.ie/library/subject_portals/computer_science/index.html, resources http://www.ucd.ie/library/electronic_resources/guides_to_web_resources/computer.html . His talk included details on offsite access, Free Electronic Books, INSPEC, gateway.ut.ovid.com, Electronic Resources (Databases), E=Journals and how to access them, subject portal (off library website), Databases - ACM Digital Library (full-text) (not off campus), LNCS (not off campus), IEL (IEEE/IEE e-Library) (full text), INSPEC(computer and control), Compdendex (not full text, bibliography), Computing Reviews (Current + 20 year archive) (all but ACM with off campus access). Computing Reviews, e-journals, LNCS, Aggregator databases, Science Direct, IEL, Wiley InteScience, ACM Digital Library, Net Library - Online Books (eBooks). Inter-Library Loan and Secure Electronic Delivery (PDF to your desk) - SED

The library has details on "How do I access these Databases?" -
www.ucd.ie/library

Week 5: Innovation and Technology Transfer and Microsoft Ireland visit

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 22:04:08 +0100

Nova UCD

On July 4th ODCSSS 2007 all the ODCSSS 2007 students are having a research visit to NovaUCD and Microsoft Ireland followed by a social outing.

NovaUCD is the Innovation and Technology Transfer Centre at UCD.
NovaUCD is located in a magnificent mid-18th century house in the Belfield Innovation Park on the University campus. The concept for the innovation and technology transfer centre was to restore the original house as the centrepiece of a complex of subsidiary buildings that surround it. NovaUCD works with UCD researchers in identifying the most appropriate business model for the commercialisation of the IP which may involve licensing to commercial partners or the creation of spin-off companies. [ Read More ]

Week 4: Viking Splash Tour

aquigley@ieee.org — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 17:00:00 +0100

Today we had a purely fun social event so everyone (including the Irish people) could get to know Dublin on the Viking Splash Tour. Our guide was guide bemused as to how 24 people from over 14 different countries would all know each other and all be interested in Computers! Yes, ODCSSS it's normally but it is an interesting experience. Given all the activity and photos and shouting at the crowds (both from the land and water) it seemed it was a popular event.

Week 4: Innovation, Library and Social activity

aquigley@ieee.org — Mon, 25 Jun 2007 22:05:17 +0100

Tuesday, June 25th 2007 ODCSSS - Electrical Engineering DCU, Visit to the DCU Invent Centre

Thursday, June 28th 2007 ODCSSS - St. Patrick's Cathedral for the Viking Splash tour 5pm
Social event for ODCSSS students and affiliated UREKA supplement students.

Friday, June 29th 2007 ODCSSS - CASL UCD, School of Computer Science & Informatics Library Resources,
Josh Clark, University College Dublin James Joyce Library

2007 Projects in Focus: Using Multiple Sensors to determine Posture

Sat, 23 Jun 2007 10:16:48 +0100

[xsens.com]

Body sensing has many applications in the areas of sports, medicine, gaming, and pervasive computing. Nanthana Trakarnratanakul (King Mongkut's Institute of Technology Ladkrabang, Thailand) will be working on sensing and recognizing body postures and movements using synthesized data from multiple inertial sensing units. The project will take two directions: first, inertial sensing units will be used to make rehabilitation exercises fun by using specific prescribed movements as inputs to a computer game. The game parameters will encourage patients to perform correct movements to aid their recovery, without excessive instruction or expert assistance. Second, she will use machine learning and pattern recognition techniques to discover specific characteristics of healthy and unhealthy gait, and develop tools for gait analysis using these features.

-- Lucy

Week 1: June 6th ODCSSS 2007 - Kick Off!

aquigley@ieee.org — Tue, 12 Jun 2007 00:55:35 +0100

On June 6th ODCSSS 2007 had it's research kick off event in Newman House. Over 50 people attend the day during different times. Dr. Aaron Quigley and Dr. Gabriel Muntean the ODCSSS co-directors provided an introduction, history and welcome to ODCSSS 2007. 22 of the 24 ODCSSS students along with their mentors and supervisors attended and presented introductions and project overviews. Along with this we had talks from Dr. Betsy Keath (SFI) on "The UREKA Experience - Is It As Good As it Sounds?", Richard White (Microsoft) on the "Imagine Cup - The world's premier student technology competition", Dr. Alexander Troussov (IBM) on "R&D and student opportunities in IBM Dublin" and Dr. Lorcan Coyle on "Doing Research". [Some Student Photos:flickr]

The day ended with a tour of Newman House, a capstone and a social event. The tour of Newman house which consists of two Georgian houses, pointed out many fine aspects of these houses and some of Dublin's finest 18th century plasterwork. Our capstone talk from Prof. Alan Smeaton (AIC/CDVP) on "Multi-disciplinary & collaborative research: pushing to your edges" demonstrated the opportunities from inter-disciplinary research. Our social event concluded the day in O'Neills Suffolk street where all the students in DCU and UCD along with some UREKA supplement students got to know each other in a social setting.

Students described this day as a "informative and enjoyable day" and "I thought that the launch event was a lot of fun. I got to get to know the other students better and some of the faculty as well. It was really interesting to hear what all the other students were doing. Of course, I'd read the project descriptions when I was applying to the program, but I'd forgotten what most of the projects were by that time. I thought the talks by Lorcan and Alan were very good, too. " See the UCD CSI Newsletter for more details [PDF]

ODCSSS 2007 Talk @ UCD June 12th - 2pm

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 19:16:09 +0800

All ODCSSS students in UCD and DCU are invited to attend this talk in the CASL on June 12th. Students from
DCU or UCD who wish to attend may be able to watch it on a video conference on iChat or may be able to attend in
person (please ask your supervisor if this talk is relevant for you)

UCD CASL - Seminar Notice

Speaker: Ms. Lucy Dunne (School of Computer Science and Informatics, UCD)

Title: Smart Clothing and Seated Posture

Date: Tue 12th June
Time: 2:00PM
Location: CASL Seminar Room - Belfield Office Park

Abstract:

Electronic technology offers clothing a world of adaptive functionality for protection, expression, and communication. Body sensing is one of the most compelling application areas of wearable technology, exploiting the surface area, omnipresence, and social acceptability of clothing to obtain data for medical monitoring, sports, gaming, and many other applications.

Lucy will provide an introduction to the field of wearable technology, and describe the research and development process of a posture-monitoring garment for the prevention of musculoskeletal disorders associated with long-term computer use.

For more information see http://www.lucydunne.com or email paul.dempsey@ucd.ie.

ODCSSS 2007 - Important Links

aquigley@ieee.org — Sat, 02 Jun 2007 17:39:26 +0800

The summer school starts next week so here are some of the most important links:

ODCSSS Homepage http://www.odcsss.ie
June 5th - UCD Location (10am Coffee Morning) CASL Directions
June 5th - DCU Location Campus Map
June 6th - Newman House Map
ODCSSS Project Page - http://www.odcsss.ie/projects.html
Students of ODCSSS 2007 - http://www.odcsss.ie/index-8.html
Important Dates - http://www.odcsss.ie/dates.html

ODCSSS 2007 - Kick Off Schedule June 6th

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 01 Jun 2007 23:11:36 +0800

09:00 People arrive to 85/86 Newman House
09:30 Dr. Aaron Quigley and Dr. Gabriel Muntean - Welcome & Introduction to ODCSSS
09:50 ODCSSS Students - 1 minute each introduction of themselves
10:30 Dr. Betsy Keath (SFI) - "The UREKA Experience - Is It As Good As it Sounds?"
11:00 Coffee break
11:15 Richard White (Microsoft) - "Imagine Cup - The world's premier student technology competition"
12:00 Dr. Alexander Troussov (IBM) - "R&D and student opportunities in IBM Dublin"
12:45 Lunch break
14:00 Dr. Lorcan Coyle - "Doing Research"
14:30 Supervisors/Mentors - 3 minutes each about their projects
15:30 Coffee break
16:00 Prof. Alan Smeaton (AIC/CDVP) - "Multi-disciplinary & collaborative research: pushing to your edges"
18:00 O'Neills pub - Finger food

Directions:
Newman House, 85/86 St. Stephens Green, Dublin 2, Tel: +353 1 7167422
Google Maps (link)

ODCSSS Microsoft Imagine Cup and more talk

Thu, 31 May 2007 20:45:04 +0800

During the ODCSSS research kick off on June 6th in Newman House we will be hearing from Richard White of Microsoft Ireland on the Imagine Cup from 2007 and the upcoming 2008 theme and event. Along with this we will also be hearing from him on R&D in Microsoft Ireland. Tadhg O'Sullivan shown to the far left an ODCSSS 2006 alumnus and several of his class mates participated in the Imagine Cup in 2007. We hope future ODCSSS student continue to contribute to such activities in years to come.

ODCSSS Opening Research Day - June 6th.

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:27:55 +0800

On Wednesday June 6th DCU and UCD students will come together in Newman house in Dublin city centre for our joint ODCSSS research kick off. We hope this will be an exciting yet informal research event for everyone to get to know one another and our research in UCD and DCU. We will have talks from academics and industry people such as IBM and Microsoft. In the afternoon we hope to have an informal social event (more details to come). Students will start in each University on June 5th but will come together as a group on June 6th for this launch event in the city centre.

2007 Projects in Focus: 11 Memoir

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:19:47 +0800

2007 Projects in Focus: 11 Memoir:

Mukul Chandra Singh Bisht from IIT Guwahati (India) will be working on methods in the Memoir project to collect and tag pictures with context data such as location information. Take for example mobile phones which usually embed a camera as well as bluetooth facilities. Some GPS devices even smaller than mobile phones also have bluetooth facilities. So anyone with those devices has the ability to record pictures and their location at anytime. In addition, these devices along with other local data sources provide a rich array of context data sources which can be mined, fused and blended to create Context Rich User Content Sources (CRUCS). Mukul's work will then consist in enabling the phones and the GPS devices to communicate as well as embed the location information into the pictures. Users could then use that information to visualize on a map the places where the picture were taken along the principle of web sites like Flickr (http://www.flickr.com). Mukul will also investigate these and other pieces of Photo context data.

- Dr. Benoit Gaudin

2007 Projects in Focus: 18 Stereo imaging and photographicmetadata as an aid to information access

aquigley@ieee.org — Tue, 29 May 2007 14:48:10 +0800

Finding the subject in photographs

Photographs are notoriously time-consuming to index -- and without indexing it's almost impossible to find images of particular subjects in a large collection. Meta-data tagging works well but requires that a human editor examines and consistently marks-up each image.

Photographs of three-dimensional scenes usually have a number of planes, with (for example) the foreground plane being "more interesting" than the background. Identifying these planes automatically would facilitate a number of operations including tagging and compositing.

Olga Murdoch will be working with Simon Dobson on an ODCSSS project looking at finding the various planes in an image. The idea is to use two cameras, separated by a known distance, to establish a fixed viewing geometry from which we can extract three-dimensional information about the composition of the scene. This can then be used within a standard photographic workflow.

-- Simon

2007 Projects in Focus: 07 Forget me Not(es)

Mon, 28 May 2007 23:32:21 +0800

Emil Varga, an IASTE recommended student from Serbia will be working on the Forget me Not(es) project in UCD. The project aims to explore how context information can be used as a basis for storing information online. Consider the situation where a colleague meets you while your on your way to a meeting. They give you some important information on an upcoming event that you do not have the time to file appropriately. At best you rush to file it away under some category or folder as you dash to your next task and when you go to look for the information you are unable to find it due to the lack of context in your filing system. The Forget me Not(es) project will consider temporal, location and social context as a basis for indexing digital information and aims to build a digital graffiti messaging service which allows users to store digital messages at physical locations.

- Dr. Jill Freyne

ODCSSS Students @ DCU

aquigley@ieee.org — Sun, 13 May 2007 22:09:48 +0100

(ODCSSS 2006 Students)

ODCSSS 2007 Students in DCU

Gaurav Chaurasia, A 3D User Interface for Improving Human Memory with Dr. Derek Molloy
Eoin Lynch, Capture and Analysis of Biometric data to Aid Memory Augmentation with SenseCam with Dr. Gareth Jones
Gearoid Treasaigh, Developing m-learning assistance for small screen wireless devices with Dr. Jennifer McManis
Hristo Novatchkov, Did I take my medicine? with Prof. Alan Smeaton
Tim Kersten, Interactive Browsing for a Visual Diary with Dr. Hyowon Lee
Vincent Andrieu, Peer-to-Peer Management of Large-Scale Memory Sources with Dr. Mark Roantree
Zbigniew Fratczak, Portable System to Support Healthy Diet with Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean
Lukas Hrazky, Remind me what I promised to do with Dr. Noel O’Connor
Dian Zhang, Shape Modelling for Irish Sign Language Recognition with Dr. Alistair Sutherland
Lu Juncheng, Using Multiple Sensors to Determine Posture with Prof. Alan Smeaton and Prof. Barry Smyth
David Martin, Video Database of Irish Sign Language performed by native Signer with Dr. Alistair Sutherland
Wan Choi Yuen, Wearable Memory Sensing Devices with Prof. Dermot Diamond

UCD Carnival Day 2007 - June 30th.

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 09 May 2007 11:07:58 +0100

UCD Carnival Day 2007 will be held on Saturday, 30th June, from 2 to 6pm at the UCD Sports Centre and surrounding areas. ODCSSS students are welcome to what will be a big family day out. For further information keep an eye on http://www.ucd.ie/news/carnivalday07/.

ODCSSS @ DCU

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 09 May 2007 07:45:04 +0100

Where is DCU? - http://www.dcu.ie/info/in_dublin.shtml

How do I find my way around Dublin? - http://www.dto.ie/web2006/jp.htm
Type in "Dublin City University" and then the address on any place you want to find walking/bike directions to. For example you may try getting directions to "OConnell st" the main street in Dublin, which is close to many hostels, pubs, etc.

How do I get to DCU from the airport? - http://www.dcu.ie/info/get_to.shtml

How do I get around the DCU campus? - http://www.dcu.ie/info/campus.shtml

What are other DCU offerings? - http://www.dcu.ie/students/life.shtml

Where is and what is the on campus accommodation - http://www.shanowensquare.com/

Where will I be working for the summer?
- There are three locations within DCU in which ODCSSS students will work:
- Adaptive Information Cluster (AIC)
- School of Computing (COMP)
- School of Electronic Engineering (EENG)

2007 Projects in Focus: 16 Reminding Short-Term Memory Sufferers to Complete Routine Tasks.

aquigley@ieee.org — Thu, 03 May 2007 15:50:34 +0100

2007 Projects in Focus: 16 Reminding Short-Term Memory Sufferers to Complete Routine Tasks.

Caitlin Lustig, on ODCSSS student from the University of Washington will be working on a project that seeks to extend work done by Intel on the iGlove. The user wears a glove, with an embedded RFID reader, which keeps track of any artifacts the user interacts with during their daily routine. Firstly our system will attempt to understand the context in which an artifact was last handled by the user. If a user is looking for an artifact (e.g., their car keys), the system will provide cues to to jog the user's memory, e.g., "you left your keys with your mobile phone". Secondly, this project will extend the work done by Intel on recognising routine tasks with an extension that looks at ongoing routines and alerts the user if there is a delay in their completion. This is particularly useful for helping users with short-term memory problems, since they often find it difficult to perform routine tasks if they have
too many steps. Caitlin will bring her experience from the University of Washington's RFID Ecosystem to this project.

- Dr. Lorcan Coyle.

2007 Projects in Focus: 10 Memoir

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 30 May 2007 08:10:34 +0800

2007 Projects in Focus: 10 Memoir:

David Swords, one of the UCD based ODCSSS students will be working on a tabletop system for annotated photographs driven by a social network as part of Memoir. This photo shows Joel (an ODCSSS 2006 student) working on his Table Top Tissue Micro Array gesture system. What is a tabletop display? Well, take a look at some of Aaron Quigley's Nightingale tabletop work in Australia with Trent Apted, the main research associate on the project. You don't even need special purpose hardware, a camera will do, as shown in this recent Microsoft Video Based Gesture Recognition video from April 2007.

- Dr. Aaron Quigley

ODCSSS Students @ UCD

aquigley@ieee.org — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:32:37 +0100

(ODCSSS 2006 Students)

ODCSSS 2007 Students in UCD

Jeff Wright from Carleton College, MN - USA Working on Project 3 "Detecting Important Events using Evolutionary Learning " with Dr. Michael O'Neill and Dr. Anthony Brabazon.
Romain Muller from ESIAL, Nancy - France Working on Project 5 "Development of a J2MEbased Mobile Daily Activity Reminder System" with Dr. John Murphy in UCD and Dr. Gabriel-Miro Muntean DCU.
Emil Varga from Serbia (IAESTE) Working on Project 7 "Forget me Not(es)" with Dr. Jill Freyne and Prof. Barry Smyth
Eoin Murphy from UCD, Ireland Working on Project 8 "Glow Tags: The Choice of the Old Generation" with Dr. Simon Dobson and Prof. Paddy Nixon
David Swords from UCD, Ireland Working on project 10 "Memoir (a): Visual life stories for social reminiscence" with Dr. Aaron Quigley and Dr. Benoit Gaudin
Mukul Chandra Singh Bisht from IIT Guwahati, India Working on project 11 "Memoir (b): Visual life stories for social reminiscence" with Dr. Aaron Quigley and Dr. Benoit Gaudin
Jakub Dostal, from UCD Ireland Working on Project 13 "Programmer and Prover Memory" with Dr. Joseph Kiniry
Caitlin Lustig, University of Washington, USA Working on Project 16, "Reminding Short-Term Memory Sufferers to Complete Routine Tasks" with Dr. Lorcan Coyle and Dr. Aaron Quigley
Olga Murdoch, UCD Ireland Working on Project 18, "Stereo imaging and photographic metadata as an aid to information access" with Dr. Simon Dobson
Minh Hong Dinh, RWTH Aachen University Germany Working on Project 19, "In the Right Place at the Right Time" with Dr. Chris Bleakley
Nanthana Trakarnratanakul, King Mongkut's Institute of Technology, Thailand (IAESTE) Working on Project 21, "Using Multiple Sensors to determine Posture with Prof. Alan Smeaton DCU and Prof. Barry Smith UCD
Nieves Salor Moral, Carlos III University Madrid, Spain Working on Project 23 "Wayfinding with Holographic Directional Information Signs Dr. Michela Bertolotto and Dr. Eleni Mangina UCD

ODCSSS @ UCD

aquigley@ieee.org — Thu, 26 Apr 2007 23:24:04 +0100

Where is UCD? - http://www.ucd.ie/maps/

How do I find my way around Dublin? - http://www.dto.ie/web2006/jp.htm

Using the above DTO website you can: type in "University College Dublin" and then the address of any place you want to find walking/bike directions to. eg. try getting directions to "oconnell st" the main street in Dublin which is close to many hostels pubs etc.

How do I get to UCD from the airport? - Take the aircoach and ask for the UCD stop on the N11. http://www.aircoach.ie

What is UCD like? - http://www.ucd.ie/newstudents/

Where is and what is the on campus accommodation like? - http://www.ucd.ie/residences/

UCD ODCSSS Locations

CSI - http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/aquigley/home/index.php?Introduction:Contact_Details:CSI_Directions
CASL - http://www.cs.ucd.ie/staff/aquigley/home/index.php?Introduction:Contact_Details:CASL_Directions
ENGINEERING - Building 49 - http://www.ucd.ie/maps/ucdmapeng_06.jpg

ODCSSS Invitations

aquigley@ieee.org — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:00:00 +0100

Letters of invitation sent to successful ODCSSS candidates for 2007. These 24 include students from Universities in Austria, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Hong Kong, India, Ireland, Slovenia, Spain, Thailand and the USA.

ODCSSS Alumnus and Imagine Cup 2007

aquigley@ieee.org — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 09:00:00 +0100

Tadhg O'Sullivan an ODCSSS 2006 alumnus and several of his class mates have been selected to participate in the Imagine Cup Ireland 2007 run by Microsoft Ireland.

Email to potential applicants

aquigley@ieee.org — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:00:00 +0100

Email sent to all applicants with an update on the notification date which is now April 17th.

UCD News on ODCSSS

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:49:33 +0100

ODCSSS News Story in the University College Dublin Information Bulletin, Issue 388, 20 March 2007.

DCU News on ODCSSS

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:49:22 +0100

DCU Research News on ODCSSS based on our media press release. Click here for the [ODCSSS press release].

UCD Research News on ODCSSS

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:49:10 +0100

UCD Research News on new UREKA sites and in particular on ODCSSS based on our media press release. Click here for the [ODCSSS press release].

SFI UREKA Sites

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:48:56 +0100

Science Foundation Ireland announces all new UREKA sites available for undergraduate students for the Summer of 2007.

Other Programs and ODCSSS

aquigley@ieee.org — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 00:48:45 +0100

Due to numerous inquiries from students who are not eligible for ODCSSS we are now updating this page with pointers to other well regarded programs. Please see this page for links to [other resources].

IAESTE and ODCSSS 2007

aquigley@ieee.org — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:49:09 +0000

For the 2007 program the ODCSSS organizers decided in August of 2006 to assign some of the non-SFI funded internships via the IAESTE Ireland program. Their general conference (19-26 Jan) has now initiated the search process in Austria, Serbia, Czech Republic, Thailand and Hong Kong for internships. We look forward to working with IAESTE to expand the scope of our program with them in years to come.

ODCSSS 2007 Poster

aquigley@ieee.org — Thu, 01 Feb 2007 10:49:14 +0000

ODCSSS poster sent to Universities and Colleges around the world click here to download a copy of the 2007 Odysseus Poster [PDF]

ODCSSS 2007 Applications Open

aquigley@ieee.org — Sat, 20 Jan 2007 09:49:20 +0000

We are pleased to announce that applications for ODCSSS 2007 are now open.

UREKA Award

aquigley@ieee.org — Mon, 15 Jan 2007 11:00:00 +0000

The Science Foundation Ireland today gave us their decision to fund our Undergraduate Research Experience & Knowledge Award (UREKA) Site which underpins ODCSSS. See list of [All UREKA Sites].

This award is based on the international peer review of our grant proposal from 24 academics in UCD and DCU. This proposal is entitled

UREKA Site Proposal: ODCSSS (Odysseus)
Online Dublin Computer Science Summer School -
http://www.odcsss.ie

Technologies for aiding human memory