Newsletter March 2013
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SFI Investigator Programme Funding
SFI Investigator Programme Funding Lero Visit to Vistakon Young Scientist 2013 Scratch Competition LGSSE at Postgraduate Study Fair in UL Conferences and Workshops ICPE 2014 AMCIS 2013 Dublin Bid wins ICIS 2016 Smart Grid 2013 Testing the Cloud 2013 Tool Demonstration Track Graduations and Vivas Irish Research Council Gran Congratulations to Dr. Padraig OâLeary Big in Japan 2013 International Womenâs Day Publications
Directorâs Message Welcome to another edition of the Lero newsletter. In addition to the usual items relating to conferences and publications, in this issue we have some great news on additional funding for two of our researchers. Also, we have news on industrial engagements and outreach and news on graduations. Congratulations to all for a very successful period.
Professor Mike Hinchey Director
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ongratulations to Lero researchers Dr. David Gregg Lero@TCD and Dr. Jim Buckley Lero@UL who were awarded âŹ839,000 from SFI under the Investigator Programme. Dr. Gregg was awarded âŹ563 K to investigate âData-centric ultra-low power embedded computingâ. This award will allow him to build upon the work already funded under the Lero CSET programme and other funding schemes. Over the last decade energy has become the main limiter of computing performance. As energy consumption increased, the industry has adopted measures to limit energy and heat dissipation such as lower clock frequencies and multiple cores. Improved energy efficiency would allow a reduction in power bills and greenhouse gases while increasing battery life and functionality of low-power systems. The goal of this project is to develop techniques for high performance ultra-low energy embedded systems. We will achieve this with a parallel data centric model of computation aimed at minimizing the energy cost of data movement. The aim is to achieve extremely high levels of energy efficiency. While the proposed research is aimed at HPEC, many of the solutions will be applicable to other forms of energy efficient computing. Dr. Buckleyâs research project is entitled: âEstablishing best practice in Software Architecture Consistency Processesâ and it probes the tricky question of promoting consistency between the designed architecture of software systems and the as-implementation architecture of those systems. Dr. Buckley said: âItâs analogous to ensuring that the blue-print for a house is the same as
Dr. Jim Buckley
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the actual design of the finished house. The difference in software systems is that the blue-print my never actually be written down, that, even when it is, itâs often not followed by the builders, and the resultant differences are obscured by the complexity of the implemented system. However, like a house, once these differences are embedded in the finished system they can degrade the quality and maintainability of the system and are very costly to remove.â This award will allow Dr. Buckley to build upon his existing architecture recovery and architecture consistency work with companies like IBM Ireland, FINEOS, Information Mosaic and QAD Ireland: work already funded under the Lero CSET programme, Enterprise Ireland Innovation Partnership grants and Enterprise Ireland Commercialization funding. This funding involves collaboration with Information Mosaic, and Fidelity Ireland, although several other companies have expressed an interest in joining the collaboration
Lero Visit to Vistakon
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group from Lero (Sarah Beecham, Klaas-Jan Stol, Brian Fitzgerald, Brendan OâMalley, Rory OâConnor and Lorraine Morgan) were taken on a tour of Johnson & Johnsonâs Vistakon soft contact lens manufacturing plant in Limerick recently. The Lero group discussed collaboration opportunities with the newly-established Automation Centre of Excellence for Johnson & Johnsonâs Medical Device and Diagnostics group. Dr. Sarah Beecham, Dr. Klaas-Jan Stol, Prof Brian Fitzgerald, Mr Brendan OâMalley, Dr. Rory OâConnor, Dr. Lorraine Morgan
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