The MGS Blog

Tuesday, February 11, 2014

Irish firm in alliance with Indian IT giant Mahindra

Indian IT giant Tech Mahindra has forged a partnership with AIMS Software, a subsidiary of Dublin-based Quest Computing that will see the Irish tech firms software deployed across South East Asia.

News link on Silicon Republic

How to review an article...

The following review criteria are typically applied to articles submitted for conferences.
  • Is the topic relevant to the theme?
  • Are the paper's objectives clear and well-described?
  • Is the paper written clearly?
  • Will the paper will draw an audience?
  • Is the paper well organized, does it flow logically?
  • If it includes a literature review is the literature appropriate and relevant to the theme?
  • If it includes a methodology or research method is it appropriate?
  • Are the analyses appropriate to the data presented for analysis?
  • Does the evidence given support the author's arguments (if relevant)?
  • Does the paper make a useful contribution or has it the potential to make a contribution?
Alternatively you might respond to the following general prompts:
  • Identify the paper’s strengths
  • Identify the paper’s weaknesses
  • Provide suggestions for improving the paper
  • Detail major issues (if any)
  • Detail minor issues (if any)
  • What is missing?

SILS Lecture: Framing Sustainability in the Digital Data Environment

You are invited to a lecture by Dr. Kalpana Shankar titled:
Framing Sustainability in the Digital Data Environment: the Social Science Data Archives Case
This is the third of the SILS lectures for 2014, providing an insight into the research questions of our staff throughout the School.

When: 13 February, 11.30am
Where: Room 107, in the School of Information and Library Studies - beside the James Joyce Library, Belfield.

All welcome!