{"id":133001,"date":"2025-01-17T12:15:40","date_gmt":"2025-01-17T12:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/?p=133001"},"modified":"2025-04-09T04:51:57","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T04:51:57","slug":"commissioner-helen-dixon-presents-award-at-bt-young-scientist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/commissioner-helen-dixon-presents-award-at-bt-young-scientist\/","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Helen Dixon presents award at BT Young Scientist &#038; Technology Exhibition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ComReg Commissioner Helen Dixon presented the BT Young Scientist &amp; Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) ComReg Award to Max Grogan and Finn O Donaill, St Andrews College, Dublin.<\/p>\n<p>Judged as part of the #technology category, Max and Finn\u2019s project was titled \u201cMachine Learning powered Intruder Detection System in the context of our Medical Appointment Computing System Software\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In light of the 2021 HSE cyberattack, Max and Finn created an Intruder Detection System to defend against potential malicious activity. A network security tool on a server or website, an Intruder Detection System identifies good and bad connections and blocks attacks. After testing seven machine learning models, the students concluded that their model 2 of the Decision Tree and Artificial Neural Network was the best. They created a sample software, MACSS, for the IDS to act upon.<\/p>\n<p>D\u00e9anaimid comhghairdeas \u00f3 chro\u00ed le Max agus Finn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2025\/01\/BTYS-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-133003\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2025\/01\/BTYS-2.jpg\" alt=\"overhead photo of the displays\" width=\"399\" height=\"532\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2025\/01\/BTYS-3.jpg\">\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2025\/01\/BTYS-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-133004\" src=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/media\/2025\/01\/BTYS-3.jpg\" alt=\"two students standing in front of their display\" width=\"299\" height=\"531\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ComReg Commissioner Helen Dixon presented the BT Young Scientist &amp; Technology Exhibition (BTYSTE) ComReg Award to Max Grogan and Finn O Donaill, St Andrews College, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/commissioner-helen-dixon-presents-award-at-bt-young-scientist\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":76,"featured_media":133002,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":"","_wp_rev_ctl_limit":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-133001","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-enforcement"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133001","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/76"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=133001"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133001\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":133949,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133001\/revisions\/133949"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133001"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133001"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comreg.ie\/ga\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133001"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}