Odysseus

Friday the 17th of July saw Dr. Aaron Quigley the UCD director for ODCSSS and Dr. Hrishikesh Venkataraman from DCU welcome everyone to DCU for the 4th annual mid-term ODCSSS research day. The day started with a lab tour by Professor Alan Smeaton the deputy director for CLARITY.

Following this we had a seminar from Ryan Spicer of Arizona  State University on "Telling Reactive Organizational Stories with Multiple Paths through Content".

The mid-term research showcase lasted from 11.15 until 1.15 where all 18 research interns were able to demonstrate their progress to date. Many students were able to demonstrate impressive progress just 7 weeks into their summer research projects.
 

The afternoon consisted of research seminars from  IBM. IBM's Chief Technologist, Mike Roche gave a presentation on "Smart Work for a Smarter Planet". While (under NDA) we heard from an IBM Extreme Blue team who gave a presentation on their smart media commercial research project.
This IBM team included John Reddin an ODCSSS alumni from 2008 who recently graduated from Trinity College Dublin. John recently had a paper based on his internship in ODCSSS published with his supervisors in the Lecture Notes in Computer Science series.
 

During the afternoon session this year's ODCSSS program was represented by Ben Kirwan who presented on "Long-term sensing in aquatic environments using autonomous yachts" and Catalin David who presented on "Sensing and modelling radio channel conditions for mobile users".

We were also pleased to have Prof. Patrick Cunningham the Chief Scientific Advisor to the Irish Government present an inspiring talk entitled "We are Serious about Science".