CodeGirl and the Conversation: Women in Computing
In this special live-recorded episode of The Machine , Rob O’Connor hosts a panel discussion following a viewing of the CodeGirl documentary...
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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...
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20 of 62 episodesWhy Study Computing?
Are you interested in studying computing but feel a bit daunted by entering a field that can seem overwhelming? As professional computer sci...
Garda National Cyber Crime Bureau
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...
Indrakshi Dey - Autonomous Systems and Artificial Intelligence
Autonomous Systems are the jumping off point for this podcast episode with Indrakshi Dey of the Walton Institute at SETU. We talk about how...
Nuria Oliver - Big Data, Artificial Intelligence and Addressing Imbalances
To help celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, Rob spoke with Spanish computer scientist Nuria Oliver about her work...
Jobs in Computing (Live Panel Discussion)
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...
Building a Local Large Language Model (LLM)
Another #ComputingWeek talk turned into a podcast! Two Red Hat software engineers, both recent graduates of SETU, returned to discuss the is...
How AI is changing the ICT work environment
On the back of a packed #ComputingWeek talk at SETU, Rob nabbed two speakers from UNUM Ireland – Gary Kenneally and Shourjya Sanyal – and re...
Quantum Computing and Quantum Communications
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...
ChatGPT and AI in the Classroom w/ Hazel Farrell and Pete Windle
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 Academy w/ Brendan O'Farrell & Leigh Griffin
Red Hat are the world's largest open source software company. Senior Engineers at Red Hat - Brendan O'Farrell and Leigh Griffin - joined SET...
3D Printing and AMASE
Two colleagues at SETU from the School of Engineering, David Alarco and Natalie Romanyatova, joined Rob in the podcast studio to discuss add...
Wireless Comms on the Farm ... and Mars?
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...
Religion & Video Games (with Frank Bosman)
What place does religion have in video games? Why should developers be concerned with religion, theology or morality when creating games? Fr...
I Wish I Knew Then What I Know Now (II)
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 with Martin Deinhofer and Brendan Jackman
StudyAtHome is a collection of eLearning courses approved by Universities across Europe where students can pick up extra credits in a variet...
Learning Your Second Programming Language
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...
From There To Here: 50-Odd Years of WIT
A documentary tracing the 50+ years history of Waterford Institute of Technology, from its initial creation as Waterford Regional technical...
Update and Introducing 9plus (Female Researchers)
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...
Automotive Computing
Continuing our series looking at sub-disciplines of computer science, in this episode we're discussing Automotive Computing (yes, the comput...