Departmental News From 2005
Warwick Irwin
awarded a UC Teaching Award.
Warwick joins Associate Prof. Dr Tim Bell (2001), Ms
Yalini Sundralingam (2002), Associate Prof. Dr Tanja Mitrovic (2003)
and Associate Prof. Dr Andy Cockburn (2004) as the 5th CSSE staff
member to receive a teaching award. Computer Science & Software
Engineering is the only department in the university to have received a
UC Teaching Award each year since they were introduced in 2001. More
information is available on the awards
and previous recipients.
(19 October 2005)
PG Certificate
in Professional Development (Electronics and ICT).
Prof. K. Pawlikowski, with Associate Prof. H. Sirisena
(ECE, University of Canterbury) and Prof. R. Harris (Massey University)
have been awarded a grant by IPENZ for developing a number of courses
on networks for newly proposed PG Certificate in Professional
Development (Electronics and ICT). These courses, including courses on
Software Engineering (to be developed by another team), are planned to
be run by departments of Continuing Education at selected universities,
including the University of Canterbury.
(15 October 2005)
University of
Canterbury Summer Scholarship awarded.
Amanda Nicholas, student of the 3rd year of CSSE, has
been awarded a University of Canterbury Summer Scholarship, to work on
a research project in cooperation with Dr R. Mukundan. Congratulations
to both of them!
(10 October 2005)
A grant for
ICTG from the e-Learning Collaborative Development Fund.
ICTG has been awarded an eCDF grant (the e-Learning
Collaborative Development Fund) of 417k for a year, to develop ASPIRE,
a Web-enabled authoring system for building intelligent tutoring
systems. The project is led by Associate Prof. Dr Tanja Mitrovic and Dr
Brent Martin. Other participants of the project are four PG students:
Pramudi Suraweera (PhD), Konstantin Zakharov (MSc), Nancy Milik (MSc)
and Jay Holland (MSc).
(7 September 2005)
International PhD students to
pay domestic fees From 2006.
All new international PhD students will pay the same fees
as New Zealand domestic students. International PhD students currently
pay between $17,200 and $22,200 depending on the subject. For 2006 they
will now pay between $3569 and $4406. This means for example, an
engineering student will save $17,794.
(5 September 2005)
Richard Green receives Best
Paper Award.
Richard Green has received the 2005 IEEE Circuits and
Systems CSVT Best Paper Award for his paper entitled "Quantifying
and recognizing human movement patterns from monocular video
Images-part I: a new framework for modeling human motion" , which
was published in IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems for Video
Technology, Feb.2004. Congratulations Richard!
(17 June 2005)
Our Intelligent Computer Tutoring Group
(ICTG), led by Associate Prof. Dr Tanja Mitrovic, will have a
remarkable contribution in the 12th Int. Conference on Artificial
Intelligence in Education (AIED'2005), to be held in Amsterdam, the
Netherlands, 18-22 July 2005; see http://hcs.science.uva.nl/AIED2005/.
Tanja will give an invited talk. The ICTG will present four full papers
(out of 89 full papers accepted - 4.5%), one poster and one paper in
the doctoral track.
(May 10, 2005).
Associate Prof. Dr Tanja Mitrovic will
be co-chairing the 10th Int. User Modelling Conference, to be held in
Edinburgh, UK, 24-29 July 2005; see http://gate.ac.uk/conferences/um2005/committees.html
(May 10, 2005)
HCI Lab research has been nominated for the "Best Paper Award" at the annual ACM CHI Conference: CHI is the premier international conference for research in human-computer interaction. The paper, entitled "Tuning and Testing Scrolling Interfaces that Automatically Zoom" by Andy Cockburn, Joshua Savage and Andrew Wallace, will be presented in Portland, Oregon in early April.
High Accolade for PhD Thesis pdf (UC Chronicle, 3 March, 2005, p.7)
Shane Saunders was awarded the Most Outstanding PhD Thesis Award
in the Australasian Computer Science Week. The title of the
thesis is "Improved Shortest Path Algorithms for Nearly Acyclic
Graphs". Congratulations to Shane! See the article on page 7 of the
March 2005 edition of the
Chronicle pdf
(February 2005)
Awards Reward Teaching Excellence at Canterbury pdf (UC Chronicle, 27 January 2005, p.3)
Konstantin Zakharov has been awarded an ICTG MSc scholarship of
the value of $20,000, and Pramudi Suraweera has been awarded an ICTG
PhD scholarship ($5,000).
(January 2005)