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Business Case Competition Round 2

Saturday, 4 May 2019 - Te Wao Nui, OBS atrium
Grow your business skills with the 2019 University of Otago Business Case Competition - Round 2 on Saturday 4 May.

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University of Otago celebrates Marsden Fund success

Thursday, 8 November 2018 9:20am

University of Otago researchers are celebrating their most successful Marsden Fund round ever, securing $28.5 million (excluding GST) for 41 world-class research projects.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Anthony Robins, Department of Computer Science

Friday, 5 October 2018 10:34am

Anthony Robins will be giving an informal talk about computing in schools, what are the results from his recent involvement with co editing Cambridge Handbook of Computing Education Research and his experience of working with 53 academic authors for the handbook.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Richard Sinnott, University of Melbourne

Friday, 28 September 2018 11:30am

The challenges for computer scientists tackling inter-disciplinary research communities and their diverse research needs.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Holger Regenbrecht, Department of Information Science

Friday, 14 September 2018 11:32am

For mixed reality applications, where reality and virtual reality are spatially merged and aligned in interactive real-time, we propose a pure voxel representation as a rendering and interaction method of choice.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Matthew Parry Department of Maths and Stats

Friday, 7 September 2018 11:40am

In this talk, I will discuss recent developments in score matching, including penalized approaches, and applications to circular distributions, graphical models, classification challenges and gene network discovery.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Lahiru Ariyasinghe, Department of Computer Science

Friday, 24 August 2018 10:47am

In this talk, I will present the design of C-HAS and demonstrate how it can improve on state of the art by reducing the instability and unfairness problems in a significant manner.

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Virtual Reality providing real-world literacy and numeracy learning tool

Friday, 17 August 2018 9:39am

Virtual reality is moving beyond purely entertainment to become a potential tool in improving literacy, and the University of Otago is behind one ground-breaking approach.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Professor B.L. William Wong, Middlesex University, UK

Friday, 17 August 2018 9:21am

In this talk I will discuss the application of cognitive engineering in the design and development of the VALCRI system - Visual Analytics for sense making in Criminal Intelligence Analysis.

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CSIS seminar presented by  Tapabrata Chakraborti, Department of Computer Science

Friday, 10 August 2018 9:29am

The present research has developed collaborative filter based methods to progress the state of the art in representation and recognition of fine-grained categories of images.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Stephen Cranefield, Department of Information Science

Friday, 3 August 2018 11:26am

In this talk I will discuss my recent and emerging research in how autonomous software agents can be designed to interact in an open society. 

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CSIS Seminar presented by Warwick Jones of SenSys NZ

Friday, 27 July 2018 12:34pm

Warwick Jones guides the SenSys and LiNC teams of designers, engineers and developers to create and bring to markets unique and useful products. The products combine modern sensing and communication technologies to mimic human intelligence and provide useful information to managers and carers of farms, people, assets, utilities and facilities, enabling better care and improved decision-making.

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CSIS seminar presented by Claudia Ott, Department of Computer Science

Friday, 13 July 2018 11:09am

Claudia discusses the issues surrounding student self-regulated learning.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Andrew Trotman and Kat Lilly, Department of Computer Science

Friday, 1 June 2018 9:57am

SIMD and Search Engines - ongoing research in the Information Retrieval Research Group

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CSIS Seminar presented by Jeremiah Deng

Friday, 25 May 2018 11:41am

Data Science - how much math/stat/programming/IT/... should be covered?

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CSIS Seminar presented by Mostafa Alwash

Friday, 18 May 2018 9:54am

We examine the nature of values propositioned by brands on Twitter and the feedback to those values from customers.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Leila Eskandari

Friday, 11 May 2018 9:13am

In the era of Big Data, with streaming applications such as social media, surveillance monitoring and real-time search generating large volumes of data, efficient Data Stream Processing Systems (DSPSs) have become essential.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Mike Paulin, Department of Zoology

Friday, 4 May 2018 10:46am

Implications for modeling cognition in big brains such as ours.

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Two PhD scholarships available for multi-agent systems research

Monday, 30 April 2018 2:37pm

Two PhD scholarships are available for a research project to develop a computational theory of collective action.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Abbas Arghavani

Friday, 27 April 2018 12:22pm

In this talk, I will first give a brief introduction of WBANs and the challenges for communication in WBANs.

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CSIS Seminar presented by Stephen Wingreen

Friday, 20 April 2018 1:00pm

This talk reviews the recent case of The DAO "hack" in June 2016 and the hard fork it took in response. It analyses the role and effectiveness of the decentralised autonomous organisation's governance in its time of crisis, and who could possibly be held accountable for the events that took place.