DCU Computer Applications Degree Final Year Project Display

DCU student Peter Denham with
Bertie Ahern, T.D, showing his project
entitled 'Bumper2Bumper'

Former Taoiseach Bertie Ahern was guest of honour at DCU’s School of Computing on Monday 26th May for the final year project display.

The graduating class of the university’s B.S.c in Computer Applications degree 2008 gave open demonstrations of their final year projects following a breakfast & champagne reception.

The event provided an excellent opportunity for IT professionals and potential employers to view the high standard and broad range of development work carried out by more than seventy graduating students of Ireland’s largest computing degree programme.

Over 150 people were present from industry reflecting the strong interest in DCU’s computing graduates and the demand that exists for software engineering and IT graduates in Ireland.

Mr Bertie Ahern,TD, said he was delighted to be at the launch: “I know these projects are the hard-work and toil of some of this country’s most innovative young minds. I have long felt that DCU is one of the most forward looking academic institutions on this island and in that regard I want to pay tribute to the School of Computing and those who will graduate from it”.

One of the projects on display included ‘bumper2bumper’, a Dublin traffic monitoring system, which gives commuters a visual bird eye view of what the traffic is like around Dublin, before they take the dreaded journey to work and back each day.

The solutions developed by students cover a wide spectrum of application areas. These include artificial intelligence, embedded systems, information management, digital signal processing, e-commerce, educational applications, gaming, graphics, Internet, mobile and wireless applications, multimedia, natural language processing, network applications and security.

The event was sponsored by the Centre for Software Engineering, ComputerScope, Ericsson, Fidelity Investments and Invent DCU.