Two Places a.k.a. 2Places catalogue launched

Tuesday evening, we launched the exhibition catalogue of the Two Places (a.k.a. 2Places) Sound art exhibition at UL and the Ormeau Baths Gallery in Belfast.

Kaleidoscope project features in Tafter Magazine

An interview with Filippo Fano' now features in the Italian "Tafter" magazine. Filippo explains the approach to music education applied as part of the project on the production of educational formats that the IDC is involved in, in collaboration with the University of Siena and Centro Tempo Reale in Florence.

Professor Parnas' talk

Yesterday, UL organised a lecture (and a reception) to celebrate the IEEE Computer Society's 60th Anniversary Award made to Professor David Lorge Parnas.

Hosted by Prof. Vincent Cunnane, UL's VP Research, the event included two talks, one by David Parnas himself and one by Fionn Murtagh, the new Director of ICT at the Science Foundation Ireland.

The title of Prof. Parnas' talk was:
‘Getting Lucky’ in Software Engineering Research. He spoke about his most important accomplishments and tried to explain the pattern of his successes, but also tackled a number of "sins"in software engineering research (reacting to symptoms rather than cases, reacting to papers not to real problems, reacting to funding buzzwords).
While criticizing simplistic experiments and interviews as reliable research methods("people ask people things and they believe them!"), Prof. Parnas mentioned: "That's one of the reasons why I always enjoyed having Liam Bannon around - he's a psychologist! he knows better than that".

Professor Fionn Murtagh presented a briefing entitled “An ICT View of the Current Conjuncture and the Topology of Innovation”, providing some interesting insights into current and future priorities for the SFI in the ICT field.

Update- amateur recordings of the two talks are available here:

• David Parnas
• Fionn Murtagh