BESS Undergrad at Trinity College Dublin

While looking for a subject for his final year computer programming thesis he noticed staff in the Faculty Office trying to reschedule a lecture for a lecturer that was out sick. It involved manually checking all the subject lectures of all the students to reschedule to a date that did not conflict with their existing lecture commitments or those of the lecturer, to find a lecture hall with sufficient capacity for the rescheduled class and to avoid conflicting with any tutor sessions. He realised that he could remove the tedious, repetitive routine of this manual procedure using a computer application. He therefore designed and built an application written in Prolog called the Faculty Advisor. He created an English language compiler in front of the Prolog application so that people in the faculty office didn't need to know the syntax of writing Prolog queries. For a typical rescheduling of a lecturer's commitments that took 30 minutes the ESS Faculty Advisor could carry out the optimal rescheduling in 0.2 seconds.

Eoin took on the role of project managing the first ever ESS Faculty Christmas Concert for charity, he got his father to do a set of his blues songs!