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Some students from the BSc in Software Systems Development went down to Waterford Tech Meetup on Thursday and by all accounts they found it very informative. Thanks to everyone for making them feel so welcome.

Thanks to John Ronan for taking our 2nd year Students from the BSc in Applied Computing and the BSc in IT who are studying on our Networks and Cloud stream for a tour around the Walton Institute Data Centre today. All of our students really enjoyed it.
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Some year two Applied Computing students enjoying building networks today

Student from the BSc in Software Systems Development using his Raspberry Pi to play retro games

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Dr Steven Davy talking to our Students from Software Systems Development year 4 today about PhD opportunities in TSSG.

Thanks so much to Red Hat for giving our Software Systems Development Year 3 students a taste of Agile. Their Lego lab experience was a great way for the students to understand agile and iterative delivery. The students really enjoyed it.

Amanda from our department had a great day in Abbey Community College Waterford (Official) talking about career option in ICT. Thanks for hosting her!

💻🎮 5th Year WIT Computing Talk 🎮💻
Amanda Freeman Gater, Lecturer in Computing in WIT gave an interesting talk on careers in the computing industry to all 5th year students.

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BSc in Software Systems Development year 1 students using their Raspberry PI to play some retro games.

Congratulations to William Wall & Anqi Li who were runners-up at the BSc Software Systems Development final year project awards. Thanks to Errigal for their support & helping these talented students with the next step of their journey

Congratulations to Francisca Masombo who won first prize at the BSc Software Systems Development final year project awards!

WIT Computing Projects Sun Life Awards 2019

We were delighted to have nearly 100 students from the Ursuline primary school come in and visit and take part in our Hour of Code, the girls tell us they had a ball.

Computing Projects Fair | Waterford Institute of Technology

An open invite to the 2019 WIT Computing Projects Fair, 17 May 2019 https://lnkd.in/gWUtENP

wit.ie Waterford Institute of Technology (WIT) is a university-level institution in the South-East of Ireland with over 10,000 students and 1,000 staff. WIT offers tuition and research programmes in various areas from Higher Certificate to Degree to PhD

Students Andrew Brennan & Gianluca Zuccarelli from the BSc Applied Computing (Entertainments Media Stream) (year 2), who were finalists (with 3 of the 9 shortlisted audio pieces) in the National Smarter Travel Campus Media Awards. They collaborated on joint projects with WIT students from Health Sciences, and winner of the Lecturer Award Jenny O'Connor (WIT). Congratulations!

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DJs of the Future Don't Spin Records—They Write Code

“Live Coding”

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wired.com "Live-coding" parties are the latest phenomenon in underground electronic music culture.

David Hearne talking us through UX with

Meetup

Best of luck to WIT Computing postgrad student Phil Healy who's competing very shortly in the shortly! She'll be live on BBC2 at 12.40pm. G'wan Phil!!!

Delighted to present our exciting line up of amazing speakers for our Women in Tech event at WIT arena on March 7th

"Institutes of technology, and now TUs, remain committed to providing programmes that ‘reflect the needs of individuals, business, enterprise, the professions, the community, local interests and other stakeholders’ in their regions" Dr Jim Murray in

Govt targets 47,000 high-skilled ICT graduates by 2022

“A target of delivering more than 47,000 graduates with high level ICT skills by 2022 has been set by the Government to meet Ireland's need for graduates in computing, electronic and electrical engineering.” www.rte.ie/amp/1031199/

rte.ie A target of delivering more than 47,000 graduates with high level ICT skills by 2022 has been set by the Government to meet Ireland's need for graduates in computing, electronic and electrical engineering.

Ep 7: Tech Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future

Some of the Lecturers in the Department have started a podcast. Their latest episode is all about the tech ghosts of Christmas past, present and future. You can hear about gift guides for this year and you'll also hear them get all nostalgic for tech of years gone by ...

open.spotify.com We have a festive themed episode today! Rob is joined by Mairead Meagher, Siobhan Drohan, Brenda Mullally and Colm Dunphy to reminisce about tech gifts from years gone by, make some recommendations... Faculty and students from Waterford Institute of Technology explore a wide range of topics related....

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Great to see so many students and staff attend our Women in Technology coffee morning

Great to see so many students and staff attend our Women in Technology coffee morning

The Machine • A podcast on Anchor

Some of our computing faculty have started a podcast in which they discuss different aspects of technology and computer science. 'The Machine' is available on most podcasting platforms (e.g. Spotify, iTunes, etc) but you can also listen online here https://anchor.fm/the-machine

anchor.fm Faculty and students from Waterford Institute of Technology explore a wide range of topics related to computing and technology. Hosted by Rob O'Connor. All opinions are personal and do not represent Institutional views.