University of Otago celebrates Marsden Fund success
Thursday, 8 November 2018 4:48pm
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
CSIS Seminar presented by Jeremiah Deng
Friday, 25 May 2018 11:41am
Data Science - how much math/stat/programming/IT/... should be covered?
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.
CSIS Seminar presented by Leila Eskandari
Friday, 11 May 2018 12:08pm
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
CSIS Seminar presented by Steven Mills
Friday, 13 April 2018 11:49am
Four- and Seven-Point Relative Pose from Oriented Features
Vacancies for two Lecturers or Senior Lecturers
Sunday, 8 April 2018 12:24pm
We are seeking two Lecturers or Senior Lecturers to join our dynamic academic teaching and research staff.
CSIS Seminar by John Williams, Department of Marketing
Friday, 23 March 2018 8:53am
What are blockchains and crypotcurrencies? In this talk I will cover what they actually are.
Family affair for Yasir as he submits his hardbound thesis
Friday, 16 March 2018 11:27am
It was a family affair for Yasir when his wife and daughter joined him to walk his thesis over to the doctoral office.
CSIS Seminar by Guangbing Xiao
Friday, 16 March 2018 12:23pm
This talk covers some recent work on reliable and efficient CAM broadcast for decentralised VANETs. The objective is to enhance packet delivery reliability in safety message dissemination with short latency and small overhead, aiming to provide traffic awareness around vehicles and reduce driving risks on road.
