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2013 Computer and Information Science Seminar Series

This page provides a list of seminars that will be presented on the dates specified at 1:00 pm in the Room 106 of the Owheo Building (133 Union Street East). Where available, an abstract of the seminar can be displayed by clicking on the title of the seminar. Some seminars will be recorded and those videos will available for download from within the university.

Important: Seminar video links below are provided as a service to students and staff of the University of Otago. The copyright for each video belongs to the seminar speaker. The videos are not to be copied or redistributed outside this university.

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Semester 2

July

July 12
How average are you? Personal Science in Quantified Self
Mariusz Nowostawski - Department of Information Science
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July 19
Nested tandem repeat a marker for population genetic studies on Taro
Atheer Matroud - Department of Computer Science

July 26
Health Informatics and the management of paracetamol poisoning
Alec Holt - Department of Information Science

August

August 2
Touch Tracking with a Particle Filter
Brendan McCane - Department of Computer Science
Watch video

August 9
Getting to Green: Navigating the Road to Environmentally Sustainable Information Technologies and Systems
Jane Webster - Queen's School of Business, Canada
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August 16
Simulation of Segmentation genes of Honeybee embryos
Maryam Bagher Oskouei - Department of Computer Science

August 23
Agent-oriented programming: getting from promising to mainstream (or even niche)
Stephen Cranefield - Department of Information Science
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August 30
No Seminar - Mid Semester Break

September

September 6
SELinux 101
Lech Szymanski - Department of Computer Science
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September 13
Dynamic Institutional Structures
Christopher Frantz and Martin Purvis - Department of Information Science
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September 20
Indoor scene localisation for blind people using vision
Nabeel Khan - Department of Computer Science
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September 27
'Sabbatical' Report...
Steve MacDonell - Department of Information Science
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October

October 4
Unlocking the Value of Big Data in Higher Education
Ben Daniel - Higher Education Development Centre
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October 11
Lies, Damned Lies and Clinical Studies
Geoff Wyvill - Department of Computer Science
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End of Semester Two

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