Computer Science - At the Centre of Student Life

Nestled alongside the River Lee, the Western Gateway Building is home to Computer Science. This ultra-modern building is situated at the heart of a UCC student's college life. Within a three minute walk of the newly expanded Mardyke Arena, and within a few minutes walk of Campus Accommodation, most lectures, lab sessions and facilities used by our students are located in this state-of-the-art facility.

Computer Science teaching facilities

• Teaching and specialist labs (more detail below).
• IT Helpdesk: Email based ticketing system. Web site with frequently asked questions. Physical desk for queries that cannot be handled via self service or email.
• File system for staff and student data. RAID and Mirrored.
• Web and DBMS for school, staff and student development and production use.
• Platforms include PHP and server-side Python.
• Full email service for staff. Managed email lists for staff and student groups.
• Dedicated SSH gateway server (to allow secure external SSH access to CSIT Unix servers) .
• VLE: Canvas.
• Virtual Machines in labs with use across MSc, 2nd year, 3rd year and diploma courses for more flexible teaching.

General-use teaching labs

• Dual boot Windows /Linux PCs across 3 teaching labs for undergrad teaching (83, 80 and 75 seat).
• Dual boot Windows /Linux PCs across 2 labs for diploma and MSc.
• 40 seats across two labs for minor, service modules and overflow.
• 19 seat labs for school research MSc/PhD students.
• 20 seat lab for 1st, 2nd and 3rd year unscheduled coursework.

Specialist teaching labs and facilities

• Hardware lab: 25 seats for 2 specialist hardware classes with Arduino Kits and FPGAs.
• Multimedia classes: 70 MAC OSX workstations.
• Final year and MSc project lab: 25 seat high end workstations mostly for data analytics and compute-intensive needs.
• Specialist GPU workstation lab for compute intensive deep learning.
• Video laboratory with high end workstations and video editing hardware and software.
• Audio lab high end workstations, keyboards and audio editing software.
• Dedicated virtual reality lab: State-of-the-art VR hardware and HCI devices.
• Fully equipped multimedia recording studio.

Other teaching facilities

• Server Room with Fire suppression and rack mounted servers.
• A selection of devices (phones & tablets etc) for loan to project students.
• Specialist IP video conferencing in main CS meeting room for School use.