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Faculty and students from Waterford Institute of Technology explore a wide range of topics related to computing and technology. Hosted by Rob O'Connor. All opinions are personal and do not r...

In this special live-recorded episode of The Machine , Rob O’Connor hosts a panel discussion following a viewing of the CodeGirl documentary...

Are you interested in studying computing but feel a bit daunted by entering a field that can seem overwhelming? As professional computer sci...

Coming out of our latest Computing Week on campus in SETU, Rob spoke with two members of the Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau – Detective S...

Autonomous Systems are the jumping off point for this podcast episode with Indrakshi Dey of the Walton Institute at SETU. We talk about how...

To help celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Rob spoke with Spanish computer scientist Nuria Oliver about her work...

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 i...

Another #ComputingWeek talk turned into a podcast! Two Red Hat software engineers, both recent graduates of SETU, returned to discuss the is...

On the back of a packed #ComputingWeek talk at SETU, Rob nabbed two speakers from UNUM Ireland – Gary Kenneally and Shourjya Sanyal – and re...

Don't know your q-bits from your bytes? This is the podcast for you! Quantum Computing is one of the next-gen technologies that can truly us...

Hazel Farrell and Pete Windle are academics at SETU who have been playing with ChatGPT (and other AI tools) to see how they can be used in t...

Red Hat are the world's largest open source software company. Senior Engineers at Red Hat - Brendan O'Farrell and Leigh Griffin - joined SET...

Two colleagues at SETU from the School of Engineering, David Alarco and Natalie Romanyatova, joined Rob in the podcast studio to discuss add...

Can we detect an excess of carbon in a field using equipment that already in place? Rob spoke with SETU academic Bernard Butler and his grad...

What place does religion have in video games? Why should developers be concerned with religion, theology or morality when creating games? Fr...

A rerun of an episode we published a few years back - Rob sat down with some final year students who'd just completed their undergraduate de...

StudyAtHome is a collection of eLearning courses approved by Universities across Europe where students can pick up extra credits in a variet...

To kick off a short season at the end of the academic year, Eamonn Deleastar and Siobhan Drohan joined Rob O'Connor in the studio to discuss...

A documentary tracing the 50+ years history of Waterford Institute of Technology, from its initial creation as Waterford Regional technical...

It's not a new episode, but Rob gives an update as to where The Machine podcast current stands (HINT - will be back soon!) and also reposts...

Continuing our series looking at sub-disciplines of computer science, in this episode we're discussing Automotive Computing (yes, the comput...

Mícheál Ó'Foghlú is a former computing faculty member at WIT, one of the founders of the TSSG research group (now Walton) and instrumental i...

Continuing our explorations of sub-topics of Computer Science, WIT lecturer Frank Walsh and student Dominik Wawak joined Rob O'Connor in the...

In the first episode of the new season of the podcast, the panel have a chat about cloud computing, what's involved, some of the big techs t...

An unexpected episode for the academic year 2020/21. What does 3rd Level need to know about Leaving Cert Computer Science? This podcast is a...

Rob chats with Brett Becker, one of the co-authors of the Computer Science for Leaving Cert book. They talk about computing as a 2nd level s...

A different episode to our normal programming. 'Gianluca Wants a Record Player' is a documentary that follows an Applied Computing student's...

Final Year Projects are one of the most exciting (and daunting!) parts of an undergraduate degree. WIT have a close relationship with Sun Li...

VR/AR and MR are acronyms that are becoming increasingly prevalent in the tech world. We delved into what that means from a tech and busines...

In March of 2021, the TSSG ( tssg.org ) will rebrand as The Walton Institute. Rob spoke with co-directors Sasi Balasubramaniam and Kevin Doo...

Despite the ongoing COVID situation, work placements and internships are still going ahead in the tech industry. Rob spoke with three stakeh...

Ho ho ho! Five of the regular podcast hosts from WIT got together to record a joint episode recommending some books, TV programmes, films, p...

"LOVE: A Puzzle Box Filled With Stories" is the recent release from Canadian studio RocketShip Park Games. Rob spoke with their chief games...

Quantum communication! Cybersecurity! Controlling tractors from space! Rob spoke with Mark White (Head of Research WIT) and Niall Smith (Hea...

We have three IT security and forensics experts in the virtual studio for this episode! Rob knows next to nothing about cybersecurity so was...

The COVIDTracker app, developed by NearForm in Tramore Co. Waterford has become the basis for exposure notification apps across the globe. I...

A companion piece to our last episode, this time Rob is speaking with two computing students - Sinead O'Neill (2nd year Computer Forensics &...

Rob O'Connor discusses the new academic year with Colm Dunphy and Siobhan Drohan and the shift from on-campus to remote teaching and learnin...

Following on from our previous episode, here's a discussion about two more Covid19 projects that are being actively worked on during the loc...

Applying their expertise in information communications technology (ICT), researchers from TSSG at WIT are working to develop both short as w...

Mark White (VP for Research & Innovation) and Kathryn Kiely (Industry Services Manager) spoke with Rob about research activities at WIT. Wha...

Rob and podcast regular Colm Dunphy sat down with former student Danny O'Dwyer, now well known across d'internet for the documentaries he's...

As a special Christmas treat, we present a radio nativity play which was produced by computing students from WIT back in 2012, made in conju...

WIT has an Open Day coming up for prospective students. We thought it'd be a good to publish a podcast answering some of the frequently aske...

Two students of the HDip in Computer Science at WIT were drafted in to describe their experiences of being a student on a totally online pro...

It's hard to imagine life without the Internet. Podcasts wouldn't exist without the infrastructure provided by a collection of interconnect...

As it's #CodeWeek across the EU, we thought we'd record an episode offering advice on starting coding with younger folk (primary and seconda...

We've all gotten questions like "what laptop should I buy?", "any recommendations for a computer?" or "is this a good deal for a PC?" The sh...

In what is likely to be the final episode of The Machine for this season, Rob chatted with some outgoing final year undergraduate computing...

Rob is joined by Siobhan Drohan and Brenda Mullally to discuss a few tech news stories making headlines this week. - Canada is becoming a te...

Four women chat about how they began their careers in computing & technology. Features Phil Healy (Irish Athlete and postgraduate computing...