Category: Galway
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New BE/MEngSc in Engineering Innovation – Electronic from NUI Galway
NUI Galway‘s College of Engineering & Informatics is now offering a new course titled “Engineering Innovation – Electronic“. This course will provide graduates with specialised multi-disciplinary skills to start their own business, centered on the development of innovative, niche, market-led, electronic products. The programme is composed of three multi-disciplinary strands,…
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GalwayFirst.ie: Lost in Galway / Stars at Galway Film Fleadh
From Galway First: Star Trek fans are called Trekkies, but watch out for the Lost-ies. Fans of the inexplicable and never-ending TV series are planning to come to Galway this week to honour the conferring of the star of several episodes of the series, who is receiving an honorary degree…
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Bits and pieces: SMOB 2nd Prize in SFSW / Drupal Ireland on Saturday / Wikipedia on OLPC
Semantic Microblogging wins 2nd prize in the Scripting for the Semantic Web challenge! Alex tweeted from the SFSW workshop at the European Semantic Web Conference that our SMOB (distributed microblogging with semantics) prototype has won 2nd prize in the SFSW challenge. Congratulations and thanks to Alex, Tuukka and Uldis for…
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DERI Entrepreneurial Forum #2 last week
We had a very interesting event in DERI last week – the DERI Entrepreneurial Forum #2 – where six CEOs from the west of Ireland gave us their views on entrepreurship. There was some frank sharing of professional and personal experiences on both starting and running a company in Ireland.…
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Fwd: Galway Linux installfest, Sat 17th Nov
Via Andrew Gallagher: Galway LUG is organising a Linux installfest on Saturday 17th from 10am-noon in the DERI building, Lower Dangan (map). This is a chance for you to bring along your old laptop/desktop and give it new purpose in life! If you have thought about trying Linux, but haven’t…
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November's OpenCoffee Galway event
The next OpenCoffee Galway meetup will be held at the DERI Café, in the Digital Enterprise Research Institute on Friday, 2nd November 2007 at 11 AM.
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Lally meetup on Saturday…
Had an interesting evening chatting about Web 2.0, the Semantic Web and Fortune 500 consultancy with Brendan Lally (a Galway-born IT and Web consultant currently based in Colorado) during a night out with a few other web heads including James Cooley and Ina O’Murchu from DERI, and Richard Garsthagen, Technical…