Seminars in 2006

Note that seminar days and times outside the normal 'Wednesday 4 - 5 pm' slot are marked red.

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Seminars in 2006:

Wednesday, 25 Jan, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Eliot Moss , University of Massachusetts, Open Nested Transactions: Semantics and Support

Wednesday, 08 Feb, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Tom Worthington , Visiting Fellow, DCS, Humanitarian Disaster Management on a Wireless PDA

Wednesday, 22 Feb, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Andrew Coward , A Systems Architecture Approach to the Brain: From Neurons to Consciousness

Wednesday, 1 Mar, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Robin Garner , Effective Prefetching for Garbage Collection

Wednesday, 8 Mar, 4:00 -- 6:00 pm

TQP.

Wednesday, 15 Mar, 3:00 -- 5:00 pm

Janos Botzheim, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Evolutionary Algorithms. Introduction and recent results.

Friday, 17 Mar, 10:00 -- 11:00 am

Ray Warouw, Project Team Leader, MELCOE, An introduction to ASK-OSS

Wednesday, 22 Mar, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Chuan-Kun Wu, CS Dept., ANU, Security Issues in Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)

Friday, 24 Mar, 2:00 -- 3:00 pm

Kenneth Chiu, SUNY at Binghampton, Grid-Enabling Instruments and Sensors

Wednesday, 29 Mar, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Tom Worthington, Visiting Fellow, DCS, Podcasting and the end of the Myth of Live Broadcasting

Wednesday, 05 Apr, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Hugh Fisher , CS Dept., ANU, Python for Teaching and Creating 3D Graphics

Wednesday, 12 Apr, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Brendan McKay , CS Dept., ANU, Thoughts on the isomorphism problem

Wednesday, 19 Apr, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Maria Jump , University of Texas at Austin, Dynamic Memory Leak Detection for Garbage-Collected Languages

Wednesday, 26 Apr, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Roger Clarke , Visiting Professor, DCS, Plagiarism by Academics: More Complex Than It Seems

Wednesday, 3 May, 2:30 -- 3:30 pm

Stephen R. Schach , Elec. Eng., Vanderbilt University, Three Results in Empirical Open-Source Software Engineering

Wednesday, 3 May, 4:00 -- 6:00 pm

TQP.

Monday, 8 May, 11:00 -- 12:00 pm

John Hosking , Computer Science, University of Auckland, The Software Engineering Academy's Role in Industrial Innovation

Wednesday, 17 May, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Danny Butt , Partner, Suma Media Consulting, Internet Governance: The Clash of Cultures

Wednesday, 24 May, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Gary Frontin , Rehabilitation Case Manager, HR, ANU, Prevention and Management of Occupational Overuse Syndrome

Wednesday, 31 May, 4:00 -- 6:00 pm

Department Forum.

Wednesday, 7 Jun, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Joseph Antony , Computer Science, ANU, Two Papers: Performance Modelling of Gaussian; and Effect of Thread Placement on Performance

Wednesday, 21 Jun, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Henry Gardner , Computer Science, ANU, Design Patterns in Fortran 90/95

Wednesday, 28 Jun, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Graham Williams , Australian Taxation Office, Analytics at the ATO

Friday, 07 July, 3:00 -- 4:00 pm

Markus Schordan , Vienna University of Technology, Analysis and Transformation of Object-Oriented Applications with ROSE and PAG

Wednesday, 12 July, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Jia Meng , NICTA. Combining Interactive and Automatic Theorem Proving

Wednesday, 19 July, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Clem Baker-Finch and Malcolm Newey, We're using Haskell in First Year; So What!

Wednesday, 2 August, 4:00 -- 6:00 pm

TQP.

Wednesday, 9 Aug, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

John Campbell , Programming mainframes in the late '50s

Wednesday, 16 Aug, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Denny Denny , DCS, ANU, Visualizations of Cluster Changes by Comparing Self-Organizing Maps

Wednesday, 23 Aug, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Nick Piggin , DCS, A Lockless Pagecache in Linux - Introduction, Progress, Performance

Wednesday, 6 Sept, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Tom Worthington , DCS, Podcasting for Network Centric Warfare

Wednesday, 13 Sept, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Ian Barnes , DCS, POSTPONED, due to illness.

Wednesday, 20 Sept, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Michael Compton , Query Rewriting for Authorisation Checking

No seminar on 27 September, because of TQP.

Wednesday, 4 Oct, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Paul Thomas , DCS, Evaluating Information Retrieval in Context

Wednesday, 11 Oct, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Andrew Over , DCS, Experiences in Parallel Simulation

Wednesday, 18 Oct, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Duncan Stevenson , CSIRO ICT and DCS, Evaluating a Demonstration of Broadband Tele-health

Friday, 20 Oct, 12 noon -- 1 pm

Steve Blackburn, DCS, ANU, The DaCapo Benchmarks: Java Benchmarking Development and Analysis

Wednesday, 25 Oct, 4:00 -- 4:30 pm

James Navin , DCS, Depth estimation via Active illumination

Wednesday, 25 Oct, 4:30 -- 5:00 pm

Michael de Hoog , DCS, Towards a Flexible Computer Environment for Heterogeneous Clusters

Wednesday, 8 Nov, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Ian Barnes , DCS, ANU, Preservation of Word Processing Documents and the Digital Scholar's Workbench

Wednesday,29 Nov, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Warren Armstrong , DCS, Dynamic Algorithm Selection Using Reinforcement Learning

Wednesday,6 Dec, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Vacant , DCS, TBA

Wednesday, 13 Dec, 4:00 -- 5:00 pm

Peter Christen , DCS, A Comparison of Personal Name Matching: Techniques and Practical Issues and also Privacy-Preserving Data Linkage and Geocoding: Current Approaches and Research Directions