Departmental News 2013
2013-07-17: An award for a PhD student of Network Research Group: Muhammad Asad Arfeen, a PhD student of our Network Research Group, has been awarded the ITC Student Student Travel Grant to attend the 25th International Teletraffic Congress, to be held in Shanghai, China, in September, 2013. The ITC is one of the most prestigious research conferences in the area of networking. It is also probably, the oldest research conference in this area, as the 1st ITC was held in 1955. Asad will present a paper on "The Role of the Weibull Distribution in Internet Traffic Modeling". The paper is co-authored by K. Pawlikowski, D. McNickle and A. Willig.
2013-07-12: Professor Tanja Mitrovic elected as President of the AI in Education Society
Professor Tanja Mitrovic has been elected as President of the AI in Education Society. AIEd is an interdisciplinary community at the frontiers of the fields of computer science, education and psychology, and it promotes rigorous research and development of interactive and adaptive learning environments for learners of all ages, across all domains.
2013-02-26: Canterbury PhD students receive best paper awards at top CHI conference
Stephen Fitchett will receive a Best Paper Award at CHI 2013 in Paris in May this year for his paper "Improving Navigation-Based File Retrieval". Andy Cockburn and Carl Gutwin are co-authors. Best paper awards are reserved for at most 1% of submissions.
Joey Scarr will receive a Best Paper Honourable Mention award at CHI 2013 in Paris in May this year for his paper "Testing the Robustness and Performance of Spatially Consistent Interfaces". Andy Cockburn, Sylvain Malacria and Carl Gutwin are co-authors. Best Paper Honourable Mention awards are reserved for at most 5% of submissions.