CodeGirl and the Conversation: Women in Computing
In this special live-recorded episode of The Machine, Rob O’Connor hosts a panel discussion following a viewing of the CodeGirl documentary at SETU Waterford. The event brought together a group of sec...
20 Jun 202539min
Why Study Computing?
Are you interested in studying computing but feel a bit daunted by entering a field that can seem overwhelming? As professional computer science educators, we are often asked questions by prospective ...
17 Jan 202541min
Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau
Coming out of our latest Computing Week on campus in SETU, Rob spoke with two members of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau – Detective Sergeant Eoin O’Connell and Detective Noel O’Gorman. They spo...
4 Nov 202438min
Indrakshi Dey - Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Systems are the jumping off point for this podcast episode with Indrakshi Dey of the Walton Institute at SETU. We talk about how computer science research is progressing in this area, encom...
14 Mar 202446min
Nuria Oliver - Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Addressing Imbalances
To help celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Rob spoke with Spanish computer scientist Nuria Oliver about her work to date, such as using big data systems to help unbanked pe...
7 Mar 202455min
Jobs in Computing (Live Panel Discussion)
Here's a live panel discussion we recently hosted at SETU, in which a bunch of computing professionals talked about what it's like to work in the tech sector in Ireland. This took place in front of ap...
20 Feb 202435min
Building a Local Large Language Model (LLM)
Another #ComputingWeek talk turned into a podcast! Two Red Hat software engineers, both recent graduates of SETU, returned to discuss the issues surrounding running your own LLM on a local machine, ho...
8 Feb 202451min
How AI is changing the ICT work environment
On the back of a packed #ComputingWeek talk at SETU, Rob nabbed two speakers from UNUM Ireland – Gary Kenneally and Shourjya Sanyal – and recorded a conversation about the pace of change in the ICT in...
7 Feb 202447min
