School of Computer Science and Information Technology
Computer Science and
Information Technology

RMIT University, Computer Science and IT
2005 Seminar Series

Seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary. If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Xiaodong Li, the seminar co-ordinator.

Here are some suggestions made by James Harland (RMIT CS&IT access only). Seminars are normally held at 10.08.04 (building 10, level 8, room 4). You can find where we are from the RMIT city campus map.

Previous seminar series: 2004 seminars, 2003 seminars, 2002 seminars,

Date/Day

Time/Location

 Presenter

 Topic

Friday 18th February

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Keith Frampton

WHAT CAPABILITIES DO IT ARCHITECTS SAY THEY NEED?

Friday 11th March

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Paolo Giorgini

Modelling Security Requirements Through Ownership, Permission and

Delegation

Friday 18th March

12:30-13:30
12.08.02

Prof. Zbigniew Michalewicz,

University of Adelaide

Adaptive Business Intelligence

Friday 1st April

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Alexandra L. Uitdenbogerd

Effectiveness of Note Duration Information for Music Retrieval

Friday 8th April

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Caspar Ryan

MobJeX: An Adaptive Java Based Mobile Object Framework

Friday 15th April

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Andrew Turpin

Algorithms for Testing Eyes

Friday 22nd April

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Carlos Merida

Research on Coalition Formation

Friday 6th May

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Craig Pearce

Protecting Consumer Data in Composite Web Services

Friday 13th May

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Asso. Prof. James Harland

The busy beaver, the placid platypus and other alliterative amphibians

Friday 20th May

2:30 - 4:00pm
12.10.03

Asso. Prof. John Hurst,

Dr. Selby Markham

School of Computer Science and Software Engineering,

Monash University

Peer Review of Teaching

Tuesday 24th May

12:00pm – 1:00pm

Theatre 3 (ICT-205), ICT Building
111 Barry Street, Carlton

 Jim Walsh and

Dr. Hugh Williams

MSN Search, Microsoft Corporation

Building Microsoft's MSN Search engine

Friday 27th May

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Mark Bernstein

Chief scientist, Eastgate Systems, Inc.

TINDERBOX - USING WHAT WE KNOW TO HELP USERS KNOW WHAT THEY KNOW

Friday 3rd June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Michael Cameron

Improved gapped alignment in BLAST genomic search

Friday 10th June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Fabio Zambetta

3D Embodied Agents in Networked Virtual Environments

Friday 17th June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Astrid Bauers

COSC2273 Software Engineering postgrads

Software Engineering Postgraduate Projects

Friday 24th June

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Hesham Soliman

 Mobility in the Future Wireless Internet

Friday 8th July

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Robyn A. McNamara

Computer Science and Software Engineering, Monash University

Assessing Programming Ability in Introductory Computer Science: Why Can't Johnny Code?

Friday 15th July

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Adrian Pearce

The University of Melbourne

 Graph-based coordination in multi-agent programs

Friday 22nd July

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

David Lemphers

Microsoft

The latest and upcoming Microsoft technology

Friday 5th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Prof. Alistair Moffat, The University of Melbourne

Top Ten ARC Tips

Friday 12th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Fengling Han

Fingerprint image encryption based on chaos

Friday 19th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

A/Prof. Kate Patrick

HIGHER EDUCATION WORKPLACE RELATIONS REQUIREMENTS: the impact of Government policy on university working conditions

Friday 26th August

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr.Michael Winikoff and Dr. Saied Tahaghoghi

Research Supervision forum

Friday 2nd September

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Damien Phillips

 Round Trip Time Fairness for High Bandwidth TCP

Friday 9th September

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Rosie Jones

Sr. Research Scientist, Information Retrieval

Yahoo! Matching Sciences

Text Queries on Document Time Series

Friday 16th September

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Michael Winikoff and Dr. Saied Tahaghoghi

 Become a Better Supervisor - or "Everything you wanted to know about research supervision but were afraid to ask"

Friday 23rd September

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

 Steve Wilkins

IBM Asia Pacific

 IBM academic initiative, and IBM's open source efforts

Friday 7th October

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Dr. Prabhu Manyem

School of Information Technology and Mathematical Sciences, University of Ballarat

Syntactic Characterisations of Polynomial-Time Optimisation Classes

Friday 14th October

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

 Adrian Miles

School of Applied Communication

Video Architecture, Folksonomies and Blogs

Friday 21st October

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Prof. T. Y. Chen

Software Engineering at the Swinburne University of Technology

 Adaptive Random Testing (ART)

Friday 4th November

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Astrid Bauers

COSC2273 Software Engineering postgrads

 Software Engineering Postgraduate Projects

Friday 11th November

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

 Panu Phinjaroenphan

Simple Techniques to Improve the Performance of Nearest Neighbour Search in k-d Trees

Friday 18th November

11:30-12:30
10.08.04

Bodo Billerbeck

Ranjan Sinha

Talk (1): Query Expansion: An examination of Effectiveness and Efficiency

Talk (2):  Compact Tries for Efficient Sorting