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Monthly Archives: October 2015

Major Research Funding Success

Today the Australian Research Council awarded the School of Computer Science over $2 million in new research funding. This included almost $1.5 million for specific high quality research projects and two Discovery Early Career Researcher Awards (DECRA) for Dr Lina Yao and Dr Markus Wagner. Success in the DECRA scheme is testament to the potential of these outstanding […]

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Ingenuity 2015

In 2013, the idea of combining the various ECMS final year student expos into one large faculty-wide event was discussed and agreed upon. Next week, the faculty will again present under the banner of “Ingenuity” an exhibition of engineering, computer and mathematical sciences at the Adelaide Convention Centre. On over 3000m², hundreds of projects will […]

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Dr Nickolas Falkner awarded a University of Adelaide Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Teaching

Congratulations to CSER Researcher and Computer Science Lecturer, Dr Nickolas Falkner, who has been awarded a 2015 University of Adelaide Stephen Cole the Elder Award for Excellence in Teaching! The prizes are awarded annually to academic staff whose teaching is regarded by students and academic colleagues as being of excellent quality. The Stephen Cole the Elder […]

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University of Adelaide Team Wins Unearthed Hackathon

A team of students from the School of Computer Science has won the inaugural Adelaide Unearthed Hackathon (http://unearthed.solutions/events/unearthed-adelaide-2015/) . The Hackathon brings together teams of students with experienced advisors for 54 hours to solve challenging technical problems for mining industry sponsors. The winning team HyperSpecX worked with BHP to produce an innovative machine-learning solution to […]

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