Summer 2012 Exams Timetable

Assistive Technology Professional Skills

Hi all,

the notes for Assistive Technology Professional Skills
will be put up here:

http://www.comp.dit.ie/dgordon/Courses/ATProfSkills/

Damian

May 2011′s Alchemist Cafe

May 2011′s Alchemist Cafe

Michael Gill of Trinity College Dublin will be talking about the unexpected genetic links between Schizophrenia and Autism.

Schizophrenia and Autism are related disorders of brain development with many different causes. Recent genetic studies are showing that schizophrenia and autism are more closely related than might have been considered up to now. Both are disorders that can result from many different rare genetic mutations that disrupt the development of the brain and affect its basic cognitive functions. The implies that there are multiple forms of the disorder that share similar clinical symptoms much the same as intellectual disability has many origins but shares similar clinical characteristics. Surprisingly, some of the mutations seem to be the same in both conditions and are also found in other neurodevelopmental disorders such as Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and epilepsy but how this might happen is not known. There are important clinical and ethical implications of this work that need to be considered in detail.

Date: Tuesday 10th May 2011
Location: The Mercantile, Dame St, Dublin 2
Time: 7:30pm (sharp)
Admission: Free-All Welcome!
Complimentary finger food will be provided

In association with CPL and Discover Science & Engineering

World Intellectual Property Day

William Fry solicitors are organising a briefing around World IP Day on the evening of May 4th next and are looking to attract graduates (or soon to be graduates) who have a particular interest in the area of intellectual property. It's ideally suited to people who are developing (or hoping to develop) something innovative as there will be a team of IP lawyers on hand to provide free advice. (I know lawyers and free in the same sentence, where's the catch? But, of course they're looking for potential new clients to work with).

If is interested contact the organisers.
http://www.williamfry.ie/gns/news-events/events/11-01-21/World-Intellectual-Property-Day---Designing-the-Future.aspx

You can mention Frank O'Reilly (a fellow student of yours) as a contact.

DT202 Student Handbook

The student handbook for the programme is available at
http://www.comp.dit.ie/msc/documents/DT202handbook.pdf

Reminder: Universal Design Class Saturday

The first Universal Design Class is on Saturday 5th starting @ 9.00 am
in KA-3-010

Universal Design Classes

Universal Design will be on the following Saturdays
05 February 2011
19 February 2011
05 March 2011
19 March 2011
02 April 2011

Access to Comp website

There has been a hardware failure on our internal DNS server.
To access the school website you can use its IP address:

http://147.252.224.87/website07/

Similarly to access staff websites you may use the format:

http://147.252.224.87/jbloggs

(example... http://147.252.224.87/bduggan)

Registration for Semester 2 2010/2011

Good evening.

If you have already selected and paid for the modules you are
taking in semester 2 please ignore this post.

If you haven't then you need to contact registrations as soon as
you can and arrange for the modules you wish to take to be added
to your record and make payment for same.
All payments must be made before the end of January.
You can find the numbers you need at
http://www.dit.ie/cgi-bin/phonesearch.pl?firstname=&surname=&department=registrations&location=kevin+st&phone=&submit=Search

You can access the timetable at
http://www.dit.ie/registration/studentclasstimetables/


Once you have completed your registration can you send me a
short email listing the modules you are registered on in Semester 2.

Many thanks in advance for your assistance with this.


Regards

Deirdre

Presentation on Tackling Exams

There will be a short 30 min presentation on general
tips on how to tackle your examinations on Wed 15th 2010 @ 18.00
in KA-G-026.

Deferral of Exams/Personal Circumstances

Folks

Before you sit your exams you need to make sure you are familiar
with the DIT general assessment regulations (available at http://www.dit.ie/services/academicregistrar/student-assessment-regulations/general/)
and the programme document (available online at http://library.dit.ie search for DT210)

If you cannot attend an exam and know in advance (e.g. work commitments) you
need to do the following:
1. Request a deferral form from the examinations office
2. Complete the deferral form and return with documentary evidence
to support your reason to myself or Damian Gordon

All deferral requests are considered by the head of department and permitted/refused
at their discretion. It is VERY important that you submit some evidence with
your request.

If you are ill in the run up to an exam or on the day of an exam or any circumstances
happen which mean you cannot make the exam or feel you don't do well,
you need to submit a Personal Circumstances Form (available at
http://www.dit.ie/services/academicregistrar/student-assessment-regulations/general/)
and return it to the examinations office.
You must include a Professional Opinion Form with your circumstances.

Where you have submitted a personal circumstances it will be considered when the
examination board meets to consider your result. It will be treated as private and
discussed only with the programme mentor, programme chair, examinations officer
and chair of the examination board.



Deirdre

Semester 1 Exam Numbers + Timetables

I will be collecting your exam numbers and timetables from
the exams office this afternoon and will try to get them to you
over the next 3 days.

I will call into the various classes today if possible, tomorrow and Wednesday
or arrange for the relevant lecturer to take the letters for the people in
their class.

If your class does not go ahead and the college is open I will be in my office
@ 5.45 tonight Monday (KE-2-001 room 201 on the second floor)

If you can't make it in for class this week don't worry the exams office
will post whatever I haven't distributed by Thursday so you should get
it well in time for the exams start date.

DIT opening times for next 3 days From Dec 2nd

The following arrangements have been agreed for opening times over the coming days, due to continuing adverse weather and the unpredictability of public transport:



* Thursday 02 December
o All DIT buildings will close at 4 pm this afternoon, and classes will be cancelled



* Friday 03 December
o All DIT buildings will open from 10 am to 4pm
o Classes cancelled BUT scheduled examinations will take place as previously notified



* Saturday 04 December
o All DIT buildings will remain closed
o DIT Open Day has been cancelled, with great regret, and will be rescheduled in early January



We regret the inconvenience caused but these decisions have been taken to avoid further uncertainty.

Please check www.dit.ie for information re opening on Monday Dec 6th

DIT closure Dec 1st

See message from public affairs

DIT BUILDINGS TO CLOSE FROM 4PM TODAY, WEDNESDAY 01 DECEMBER UNTIL NOON TOMORROW, THURSDAY 02 DECEMBER



Due to the worsening weather conditions and reduced public transport services, DIT will close from 4pm today, Wednesday 01 December, till noon tomorrow, Thursday 02 December. Students and colleagues are requested to check their email and the DIT website for further updates.



We regret this inconvenience and thank you for your cooperation.



Public Affairs Office

Wed Dec 1st 2010 - Problem Solving Class Cancelled

There will be no problem solving class this evening.
Damian will post homework on his website to be completed
for next week

Exam Timetable + Exam Number for Winter Exams

Your exam numbers and timetables will be distributed to you next week.
I will be in touch next Monday to let you know mechanism, times and locations.
If anyone can't make it in to receive their number and timetable - these
will be posted out to them

Lab Opening Saturdays

Access will be provided to the computer labs from
Saturday December 4th.

Hey,

As the School website is down, I've put up this
week's lecture in GoogleDocs here;

https://docs.google.com/viewer?a=v&pid=explorer&chrome=true&srcid=0BwodBolTd7UGNDc0ODkxMzgtZTI2MC00ZTY4LTlkY2UtYWE5MWI5NzM2ZTc4&hl=en

sorry for the inconvience :-(

Damian

Drupal Camp 20th - 21st November 2010

The next Drupal Ireland event is taking place on Saturday 20th & Sunday 21st November in Trinity College Dublin and will run from 9am to 5pm both days. Registration is free and you can now sign-up for this event at http://www.drupalcampireland.org.

Presentations in two tracks: White belt and black belt
The event will include presentations from experienced Drupal developers where people can learn more about Drupal, what it can do and how it can benefit both them, their careers and their organisation. There will be two tracks, so participants of all levels will be catered for.

- White Belt track: For newcomers and beginners.
- Black Belt track: For intermediates and experts.

About Drupal
Drupal is a powerful open source content management system which allows users to easily publish, manage and share a wide variety of content on the internet. There is a great demand for people who know this software and demand is growing. Drupal's many features and add-ons allow it to be used for a variety of website needs; including for marketing, internal communications, informational websites, and for social networking purposes. See http://www.drupal.org

About the Irish Drupal user group
This event is being organised by the Drupal Ireland user group - a volunteer membership group. The group is comprised of developers who use Drupal everyday; who contribute to Drupal core, documentation and maintain popular modules.

Thanks to the generous support of our sponsors, this event is being held free of charge. Lunch is also being provided, and while registration is free, we would ask people to register before hand so we can cater accordingly.

More information on the event, including accommodation and car pooling, can be found at http://drupalcampireland.org

Dublin Computational Linguistics Research Seminar

The second of this year's talks in the Dublin Computational
Linguistics Research Seminar DCLRS series will by given this week by
Dr. Ielka van der Sluis of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation
at Trinity College Dublin.

This year the DCLRS series is being organized by the Artificial
Intelligence Research Centre (AIRC) in DIT, and is generously
supported by the CNGL and the DIT School of Computing.

The talk will take place in KE 308 in Kevin Street @ 16.00. Tea and biscuits
to be provided!




--- Speaker:
Dr. Ielka van der Sluis. Centre for Next Generation Localisation,
Trinity College Dublin.

--- Title:
Cross-Cultural Assessment of Automatically Generated Multimodal
Referring Expressions in a Virtual World.

--- Abstract
This talk presents a cross-cultural evaluation of an algorithm for
generating multimodal referring expressions to be produced by embodied
conversational agents in a virtual world. The algorithm employs a cost
function to implement general principles of
human motor control and cooperativity in dialogues that can be
parametrised so as to vary the precision of the pointing gestures and
the amount of linguistic information included in the referring
expressions. The study evaluated how native speakers of English and
Japanese perceived three different algorithmic outputs for multimodal
referring behaviour. Results show differences between English- and
Japanese-speaking subjects with respect to their preferences for types
of multimodal referring expressions. In the talk these differences are
related to matters of understandability, human-likeness and
culture-specific social practices. Methodological issues arising from
the translation and localisation of the materials used in the study as
well as its background and preparations are also addressed.

This research is supported by the Science Foundation Ireland (Grant
07/CE/I1142) as part of the Centre for Next Generation Localisation
(www.cngl.ie) at Trinity College Dublin.

KEYWORDS: generating referring expressions, multimodality, virtual
worlds, realisation of referring expressions, dialogue, translation,
cross-cultural differences, social practices.


--- Time and Location:
KE308, Kevin Street @ 16.00, Friday 29th of October