Trinity College Dublin

Established in 1981, the Distributed Systems Group (DSG) is both the longest standing and largest research group in the Department of Computer Science at Trinity College Dublin. DSG conducts basic and applied research into all aspects of distributed computing extending from the theoretical foundations underpinning the field to system engineering issues. Our expertise is in the areas of middleware, ubiquitous computing, mobile computing and software engineering.

Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre has announced new funding of €22.4 million from Science Foundation Ireland (€16 million) and industry (€6.4 million). DSG’s Dr. Siobhán Clarke and Prof. Vinny Cahill are co-Principal Investigators, and DSG’s focus is on investigating the optimisation of resources for smart and sustainable cities.

DSG is participating in a new ‘Sustainable Cities’ research programme; a partnership with the new Intel Energy and Sustainability Lab in Leixlip, and Dublin City Council, leading to pilot deployments of Sustainable City Technologies, including a prototype ambient intelligence sensing platform.

DSG appointed Mélanie Bouroche as the new program manager for their Future Cities research program, starting on 01/10/2011.

Congratulations to Christin Groba, who was presented with the Best Student Paper Award at the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS) in Washington DC, last week. The paper was entitled “Opportunistic Composition of Sequentially-Connected Services in Mobile Computing Environments”, and was co-authored with Siobhán Clarke.

Congratulations to DSG's Dr. Shane Brennan and Dr. Serena Fritsch, who were conferred at the Trinity Summer Commencements. Shane and Serena were both in Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Centre, and were supervised by Dr. Siobhán Clarke. Click here to see the picture!

The School's MSc in Computer Science (Networks and Distributed Systems) has won the postgradireland Postgraduate Course of the Year, 2011. DSG’s Dr. Siobhán Clarke is the course director, and many DSG staff contribute to the course. This award reflects the academic quality of the programme, and the high esteem in which it is held by potential employers.