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

RMIT University, Computer Science and IT
2007 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: 2006 seminars, 2005 seminars, 2004 seminars, 2003 seminars, 2002 seminars.

Date/Day

Time/Location

 Presenter

 Topic

Friday 23rd February

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Professor Alireza Baghai - Wadji, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

On the Nature of Accelerated Computational Technologies: Singular Self-actions vs. Renormalised Interactions "Collaborate to Prosper"

Friday 2nd March

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Dr. Rainer Berbner, Darmstadt University of Technology, Germany

QoS-aware composition of Web Service workflows

Friday 9th March

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Professor Bruce Croft, Department of Computer Science,  University of Massachusetts

An IR Perspective on Community-Based Question Answering

Friday 16th March

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Professor John Mo, Discipline Head Manufacturing & Materials Engineering, RMIT University

Application of IT in manufacturing - some practical examples and the future

Friday 23rd March

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Lei Pan, School of EIT, Deakin University

Forensic tool testing

Friday 30th March

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Peter Tilmanis

Using WebLearn instead of turnin

Friday 13th April

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Dr Andrew Turpin Fast Generation of Result Snippets in Web Search

Friday 20th April

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Jo Morgan and Pauline Bowles, RMIT International

Education Services for Overseas Students (ESOS)

Friday 27th April

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Bin Rong

Failure Recovery in Cooperative Data Stream Analysis

Friday 4th May

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Dr. Robert Stewart, University of Melbourne

Collective  Construction with a Swarm of Minimalist Robots

Friday 11th May

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Dr Ross Wilkinson Bang for Buck in Exploratory Search

Friday 18th May

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

A/Prof. Grenville Armitage, Faculty of ICT, Swinburne University of Technology

Fun and Games - why online FPS games are interesting to network engineers?

Friday 8th June

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Dr Mingfang Wu

Myriad: A Platform for Contextualised Information Retrieval and Delivery

Wednesday 20th June

13:30-14:30

12.10.03

A/Prof. Wayne Wobcke,  School of Computer Science and Engineering University of New South Wales The Smart Personal Assistant: An Overview

Friday 22nd June

11:30-13:30

12.08.02

COSC2273 Software Engineering postgrads

YourSoftware project presentations

Wednesday 18th July

11:30-12:30

8.11.68

Prof. Chengzheng Sun, School of Computer Engineering Nanyang Technological University Singapore

Collaborative Computing on the Internet: Opportunities and Challenges

Friday 20th July

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

A/Prof. Nalin Sharda, School of Computer Science and Mathematics, Victoria University

Creating Mobile Multimedia Experiences: Future Opportunities and Challenges

Friday 3rd August

11:40-12:30

10.08.03

Allan Morris, IT Services

Update on the RMIT ICT Strategy Development

Friday 10th August

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Dr Andrew Turpin

Good Ol' Fashion Computer Science: Finding the Longest Substring of a Given Density in a Bitstring

Friday 17th August

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Dr. Ahmet Sekercioglu, Department of Electrical and Computer Systems Engineering Monash University

Distributed Algorithms for Self-organization in Wireless Sensor Networks

Thursday 23rd  August

11:30-13:00

5.03.01

Prof. Zbigniew Michalewicz,  School of Computer Science, University of Adelaide

Puzzle-based learning

Friday 24th August

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

A/Prof. Ann Nicholson, Clayton School of IT, Monash University

Bayesian networks for cardiovascular risk assessment

Friday 7th September

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

A/Prof. James Harland

Busy beaver, universal machines and the Wolfram Prize

Friday 14th September

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Vafa Shams, MAP Venture Partners

Working with Venture Capital

Thursday 20th September

11:00-13:00

10.04.27

Hugh E. Williams, Microsoft, Redmond, WA, USA

Multimedia Search Relevance

Friday 21st September

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Professor Iven Mareels, Faculty of Engineering, University of Melbourne

Information Theory, Feedback and Neuroscience

Friday 5th October

11:30-12:30

10.08.04

Dr Sebastian Sardina

Automatic synthesis of a global behavior from multiple behaviors

Friday 26th October

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Professor Lynn Batten, Director, Information Security Group, Deakin University

Teaching digital forensics to year 2 students – the challenges and opportunities

Friday 2nd November

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Nicola Stokes, NICTA, University of Melbourne

EAEBTR (Exploring Abbreviation Expansion in Biomedical Text Retrieval)

Friday 9th November

11:30-13:30

10.08.03

COSC2273 Software Engineering postgrads

Software Engineering Postgraduate Project Presentations

Friday 16th November

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Professor Sandip Sen, Department of Mathematical & Computer Sciences, The University of Tulsa

Robust Agent Communities

Friday 23rd November

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Professor Hong Ren Wu, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering

Fundamental Challenges in Picture Restoration for Forensic Investigations

Friday 7th December

11:30-12:30

10.08.03

Gabriella Kazai, Microsoft Research (Cambridge)

Integrating Post-Query Navigation within a Measure of Retrieval Effectiveness


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