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The Lero CSET is holding an industry day on December 9 in the Kilmurry Lodge Hotel, Castletroy, Co. Limerick.
Admission to the event is free, and interested parties should contact Jack Downey to register, or check out the conference programme
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While at the Business of Software conference, this happened.
I’ve only been to California a few times, and I find myself eating dinner 9 miles from the epicentre of a 5.6 quake. Typical!

Following on from my last post on the topic, here’s a brief run down of day 2 of the Business of Software conference.

First up was Dan Nunan of Red Gate software, who spoke about marketing made simple – a recurring theme of the conference. Like a number of previous speakers, Dan was originally a [...]

Today, SFI officially announced the launch of a number of new CSETs (Centres for Science Engineering and Technology) and SRCs (Strategic Research Clusters).

Professor Frank Gannon, Director General SFI, added; “Today’s research award recipients and the teams that they have assembled are of world-class calibre. I believe that the initiatives to be undertaken by SFI over [...]

Professor Mark Keane, the former ICT Director and Director General at SFI returned to UCD in February of this year.
He was recently appointed to the role of Vice President of Innovation. Silicon Republic has an interview with Mark.

The Irish Independent reports on the recently published Top 200 world universities, published by the Times Higher Education Suppplement.
TCD retains its spot as top Irish university, but sees its raking rise to 12th in Europe and 53rd in the world. UCD breaks into top 200 for the first time, at 177.

UCD has also improved [...]

One of the best non-fiction writers around, Malcolm Gladwell, has resumed blogging with a bang.
Welcome back, you have been missed.

Last week, I had the pleasure and good fortune of attending the Business of Software conference in San Jose, California.
The lineup of speakers was truly impressive – many well-known figures from the software and blogging worlds.
Here’s a quick run-down of the speakers, and my impression of their talks. For a more detailed set of [...]