Closing photographs (click for a larger view)

Participants at the end (Photo by Jukka Pitkänen)	Pekka Kilpeläinen, Sarah Beecham, and John Noll (Photo by Jukka Pitkänen)

Two parallel sequences on courses will be offered, one related to Media Computing (MC) and the other related to Software Engineering (SE).

Course MC1: Fuzzy Clustering for Image Segmentation (1.5 ECTS)

The course is given by Professor Laurence S. Dooley (Department of Communication and Systems, Open University, UK).

More information and an abstract are available on the course page.

Course MC2: 4G Security (1.5 ECTS)

The course is given by Professor Laurence S. Dooley (Department of Communication and Systems, Open University, UK).

More information and an abstract are available on the course page.

Course SE: Research Perspectives on Software Engineering and Software Engineers (3 ECTS)

The course is given by Dr Sarah Beecham and Dr John Noll, Lero, the Irish Software Engineering Research Centre.

The course will include topics on Software Engineer Motivation, why software engineers enter the field, and software engineering processes; e.g. from Requirements Engineering processes, to global software development and Software Process Improvement, quality of Software - how to predict faults, Open Source Development, Agile practices ... a varied course, where there should be something for everyone!

More information and a course syllabus are available on the course page.