Caitriona Byrne (1st Year CSI) has won the inaugural Jobs Award for the best essay, on the topic of "The Essence of Computer Science is ..." , submitted as coursework for the Computer Science in Practice course (COMP10030). The award was established this academic year in honour of Steve Jobs (1955-2011) and his contribution to Computer Science. Caitriona was presented with a copy of Jobs' biography as a prize, by the module co-ordinator, Prof. Mark Keane. 

Congratulations to a postgraduate student Cristian Olariu and a researcher Dr. John Fitzpatrick, who won the overall best paper award at IEEE/COMSOC CCNC 2012 (Consumer Communications and Networking Conference) for their paper entitled "A QoS based call admission control and resource allocation mechanism for LTE femtocell deployments". John is a member of the Performance Engineering Lab and is currently a visiting researcher at NEC labs Europe. Cristi is a TSSG PhD student working closely with UCD CSI as part of the FAME strategic research cluster. The work was performed in collaboration with Prof. Liam Murphy and Dr. Philip Perry of UCD CSI.

ForkStream, a new CSI venture, was announced as second place winner at the NovaUCD 2011 Start-Up Award, which are part of the 16th NovaUCD Campus Company Development Programme. ForkStream is developing a disruptive technology to allow mobile network operators to cost effectively and seamlessly the offloading of smart phone traffic to any available WiFi network.

Congratulations to CSI student, Patrick McDonagh, who won a best paper award at WPMC’11 (14th International Symposium on Wireless Personal Multimedia Communications) for his paper entitled “Investigation of Scalable Video Delivery using H.264 SVC on an LTE network”. Patrick is working with the Performance Engineering Lab in CSI with Profs Liam Murphy and John Murphy.