Odysseus

Patrick is a 19 year old, 3^rd year BA student, from Cavan. Apparently, he is supposed to be studying Mathematical Studies and Computer Science in college. But like most other BA students, he is expansive in his interests.  While not “studying”, he spends his time listening to rock music, watching tv and meeting with friends. He also spends a lot of time playing many different sports.

Barry is 25 and grew up in county Kildare to where he regularly returns. He is a third year in IT-Tallaght studying computing, specialising in 'Information Systems'. He is also half way though a Cisco CCNA course. His main love in life is rock music, including silverchair and weezer, and he plays the guitar whenever he can. He also loves motorbiking and fixing bikes up. Barry just bought an old bike from 1990 specifically for getting to UCD this summer and he is now busy making it road worthy at the weekends.

Sandrine is 21 from Nancy, a town in the East of France. She is currently a 2^nd year student at ESIAL, a French “Grande Ecole” and will obtain a Master’s degree in Computer Science, with a specialization in Information Systems. She is a big fan of rock music and has been playing the electric guitar for a year and enjoys going to concerts and festivals in Europe. She practises sports like badminton, roller skating and enjoys doing other things like hanging with her friends and going to the cinema.

Jing is 22 years old and from China. She has been living in Dublin for the past 5 years now and did her Leaving Certificate in Ireland. For the past three years, she has been studing computer science in UCD. She likes graphics, web design and database study. In her free time, she likes to listen to music, shopping and going out with her friends.

Shauna is currently studying computer applications specialising in software engineering in Dublin City University. At the moment she is working as a laboratory tutor supervising first year students during their programming and computer architecture labs. Her interests include socialising, going to the cinema, fashion, technology and swimming. She also enjoys traveling abroad and has visited several countries including Portugal, Greece, France, UK., Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Spain, Germany, Austria and the USA.

Joanne is a 21 year old 2nd BSc Computer Science student in UCD. Before this, she was a student of Mathematical Physics for 3 years. Her main interests include taekwon-do (she is one of the instructors with the UCD club), video games, rock and metal music, movies and anime. Her particular interests in computing include programming, operating systems and web design and technologies.

Tadhg is from Canada but now lives in Ireland. He is currently a 2nd year Denominated Computer Science student in UCD but holds an Honours Degree in Behavioural Science/Psychology. His interests include Computer Gaming, Basketball and Music. He can be found online at AOL/AIM: mysticmonkey3110

Graham is currently a Computer Applications Software Engineering student in Dublin City University in his second year. In DCU so far he has enjoed a broad range of subjects from Probability and Statistics to Advanced Computer Architectures. His interests in the field of computing include computer networks, security, operating Systems and programming.

Jason is 21 and from Fayetteville, Tennessee. Despite still not knowing what he wants to be when he grows up, he is a third year student studying Computer Science at the University of Tennessee. He has several addictions that cut into his studies which include movies, board games, movies, getting lost in strange places, and movies. Contrary to the common computer scientist cliche, Jason actually grew up with a strong hatred of computers and thus today, feels an irresistable urge to develop software that is correct and easy for end-users to use.

Neil is from Dublin and is currently a 2nd BSc Computer Science student in University College Dublin. His interests include Web design and technology, along with GUI design.

Gary is a 21 year old student from Dublin. He has just finished his third year of the BSc. Computer Science course in UCD. His interests include loud music, sport, gaming, graphics and tweaking his Linux and OpenBSD machines. He spends a lot of his time on the internet doing nothing in particular, and can be usually found haunting sites such as slashdot, ign and boards.ie. He also finds it very strange talking about himself in the third person.

Brendan is from Dublin but grew up in Philadelphia in the United States.  He attended primary and secondary school in the US before returning to Ireland to attend University College Dublin.  For the past three years, he has been studying computer science in UCD.   He is very interested in software design and engineering and would like to one day have a career in software development.