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- August08:Master of Information Systems student Dharvinder Bassi, has been awarded first place in IBM’s Master of the Mainframe competition, beating over 450 students from across Australia. IBM director Glenn Wightwick presented the prize, a Playstation 3 console, to Dharvinder at a ceremony in the ICT building on Friday 8 August. More details on Dharvinder's achievement are available from IBM's website.
- July08: DIS student Ed Hooper has beaten competition from around the world to win the international final of the Microsoft Imagine Cup, with his team’s SOAK software project to help drought-affected farmers manage their water resources. Ed was part of a team of three other university students from across Australia that won the coveted prize at a ceremony at The Louvre in Paris on 8 July. The SOAK team was awarded US$15,000, and will now take part in a mentoring program which will offer them high-level business and technology coaching and a chance to pitch their finished project to venture capitalists in Sillicon Valley. Further details on this incredible win in The Age, The Australian and at ZDnet.
- May08: DIS student Ed Hooper is part of a student group which won the Australian final of Microsoft's Imagine Cup with a project which could bring much-needed relief to drought-stricken farmers. Ed's team developed the Smart Operational Agriculture Kit (SOAK) which enables farmers to make the most of water and other resources on their farms. The project integrates sensors which gather data about the environment in real time, and electronically controls various systems such as sprinklers. This information will allow farmers to conserve valuable resources by determining the most optimal times for irrigation.
Ed will now travel to Paris in July to compete with his group in the international final. The Australian PC Magazine has more on the potentially revolutionary project.
- Apr08: HCI in the year 2020
In March '07 Assoc Prof Steve Howard reported on his attendance at HCI 2020, a Microsoft sponsored forum that bought together "computing, design, philosophy of science, sociology, anthropology and psychology to debate, contribute to, and help formulate the agenda for Human Computer Interaction
(HCI) in the next decade and beyond." The final report is now available for download from: http://research.microsoft.com/hci2020/
- Feb08: Prof Graeme Shanks has had an article accepted by prestigious peer-reviewed journal MIS Quarterly. The paper, based on an ARC Discovery Grant-funded project, is entitled "Representing Part-Whole Relationships in Conceptual Modelling: An Empirical Evaluation" (Shanks, G., Tansley, E., Nuredini, J., Tobin, D. and Weber, R., 2008).
See abstract for further details.
- Nov07: Stephen Smith has been awarded 2nd place (runner up) in the ACPHIS Information Systems Doctoral Thesis Award Competition for 2007
- Nov07: Christine Satchell gave a Key Note Address 'Creating Virtual Environments that are Easily Traversable Spaces' at the Making Links Conference. Sydney, Nov, 2007
- Oct07: ARC Grant Success: A/Prof R. Johnston; A/Prof S. Howard; Prof L. Sonenberg; A/Prof R. Scheepers; A/Prof P. Seddon "Cross-Community Information Systems: Understanding Technology-Practice Fit in Healthcare" 2008-2010
- Oct07: ARC Grant Success: Prof L. Sterling; Dr F. Vetere; A/Prof S. Howard "Socially Oriented Requirements Engineering : Software Engineering meets Ethnography" 2008-10
- June07: Undergraduate IS student Sadira Haque has received one of 5 SAP User Group Student Awards. See http://www.saug.com.au/ for information on the group itself.
- June07: Christine Satchell is the named APDI on an ARC-Linkage grant with Optus and QUT: Swarms in Urban Villages - New Media Design to Augment Social Networks of Residents. The administering institution will be QUT, and Christine will use DIS as her base.
- May07: This year's Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in the category of Large Class Teaching has been awarded to Dr. Shanton Chang. A tremendous result in
an area in which Shanton excels. Our congratulations to Shanton.
- May07: Congratulations to our SCIMET successes in the most recent round:
- May07: Innovation in Large Group Teaching programme grant success.
- Assoc Prof Steven Bird (CSSE) and Dr Andrew Lonie (DIS) have been awarded a
Development Grant for Innovation in Large Group Teaching for an 'Informatics Virtual Learning Environment'. The money will fund a joint project between CSSE and DIS to develop a computational platform supporting all student practical work for the new Informatics curriculum, starting in 2008.
- May07: Sandrine Balbo has been asked to give an invited talk to the 2007
Website Usability conference in Sydney (22-23 August), on 'Undertaking user testing' . Details will be posted at http://www.arkgroupaustralia.com.au/
In the News
- Oct08: Research Fellow Dr Christine Satchell is featured on ABC TV's The New Inventors, outlining her Swarm mobile phone software system. Watch the segment on The New Inventors site.
- Sept08: The University of Melbourne Voice profiles BIS graduate Slave Petrovski, who has developed a computer model which may predict the outcome of drug treatment on epileptic patients.
- June08: Research Fellow Peter Reynolds is interviewed in The Australian Financial Review about the IT skills shortage. Peter was also quoted in an article about return on investment in IT projects, 17/6/08.
- June08: A team of DIS students designed a website for Regina Coeli home for homeless women for their final year Industrial Project. The Voice profiles the project as part of a feature on homelessness.
- May08: Research Fellow Christine Satchell was interviewed on insider blogging on page 3 of The Sunday Age, 18/5/08.
- Apr08: Research Fellow Peter Reynolds is interviewed in The Australian Financial Review discussing the management of large IT projects. View article here. 15/4/08
- Apr08: Shanton Chang quoted in The Australian on Facebook and terror threats. 5/4/08
- Feb08:
Research Fellow Christine Satchell was interviewed about e-activism and Facebook in The Age on Feb 24 2008.
- Dec07: Martin Gibbs was quoted in The Age discussing Facebook use and its potential future impacts. 2/12/07
- Nov07: Martin Gibbs was interviewed about
making communications technology more social, and his team's research involving Collage touch-screen technology and geographically- isolated families. The article appeared in The Age on 20/11/07.
- Nov07: Research Fellow Christine Satchell was interviewed on young people, the internet, and politics on ABC's AM program 2/11/07. Transcript on the ABC site.
- Sep07: Research Fellow Peter Reynolds was quoted in the Australian Financial Review, commenting on the Australian Sourcing Interest Group (ASIG) industry awards. Peter was on the panel of judges, presenting the leadership award to the South Australian Government for its next-generation sourcing deal. Further information is available via Asia Pulse 14/9
- Sep07: Research Fellow Peter Benda discusses the NH&MRC project combining counselling, mobile phones and social networks in 'Quit smoking by text' on the ABC online 19/9
- May07: An article on Floyd Mueller’s research on jogging over a distance is on the US Discovery site and the ABC 11/5
- Apr07: Peter Benda was interviewed about the NH&MRC funded project on mobile devices and smoking cessation. The interview is available as a podcast
- Apr07: Dr Shanton Chang was quoted in the Sun Herald 24/4, in an article on the teenage suicides and the link to myspace/internet use.
- Nov06: Reeva Lederman argues the value of IT in hospitals in The Age and The Sydney Morning Herald.
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