"Each Odysseus internship affords an undergraduate student with an interest in Computer Science the opportunity to undertake exciting and fun research in a distributed yet cooperative environment."
News Items 2005-2006

In 2006 Odysseus started on June 6th and ran for twelve weeks.

Nov 1 ODCSSS Final Report 2006 Published
Dr. Aaron Quigley (UCD) and Prof. Alan Smeaton (DCU)
Aug 25 End of Internship Showcase UCD - all scholars/supervisors
Poster Session and Lunch
Research Futures...Talk presented by postdocs and postgrads
Talk: Virtual Machines for Resource-Constrained Platforms. Prof. Hitoshi, University of Aizu, Japan
End of summer school social event
Aug 14 ODCSS and IBM Dublin Extreme Blue Day
Industrial research lab visit and research exchange IBM
Aug 4 UCD to DCU ODCSSS Research Visit, Library Tour, One Minute Madness, Group Presentation
July 28 DCU to UCD ODCSSS Research Visit
Office of Funded Research Support Services UCD
Science SPIN Ireland's first science magazine, David Duke
One Minute Madness and Group Presentations
July 7 Internal research showcase DCU with over 30 visitors which highlights the efforts in each projects to date!
July 2 Provisional date for Extreme Blue and Odysseus research symposium at IBM Dublin Software Laboratory Aug 14th announced
June 30 Second return visit from DCU to UCD with all summer scholars for a day of research activities One Minute Madness, NOVA UCD Commercialisation talk, How to give a research presentation
June 16 First return visit from UCD to DCU with all summer scholars followed by a movie outing One Minute Madness, Online project updates, followed by a movie outing
June 6 ODCSSS starts with morning tea in DCU and UCD followed by ODCSSS lab orientation and supervisor, student meetings
May 7 Student biographical page goes online
April 22 "Dublin Summer School to Bring Adventures in Computer Science to Two University of Tennessee Students" from University of Tennessee (news item)
April 12 University College Dublin News Item on ODCSSS: "Internships offer UCD students invaluable access to industry experience"
April 9 Student Support Page Launched
Apr 4 Invitations posted to 16 students for 2006
Mar 24 2006 Over 80 students from sixteen countries apply to Odysseus
Mar 4 2006 Number of students to be supported in 2006 (16) due to funding
Feb 23 2006 Odysseus Site Launched
Jan 7 2006 Internal Final Project Selection
Dec 10 2005 Internal Project Deadline
Dec 1 2005 DCU-AIC-UCD Consortium Formed

Important Dates
June 6 Summer School Starts
Aug 25 Summer School Ends
Projects in this stand range from automatic speech recognition to language learning.
Projects in this strand range from sign language recognition from video to distributed visualisation of web-graphs.

Projects in this strand range from adaptive recommendation kiosks to location-based tagging and glow-tags.
Projects in this strand range from P2P simulation to mobile voting and large-scale embedded systems.

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