Basser Seminar Series
Upcoming Seminars
Refreshments are available from 3:30pm before each seminar, unless otherwise stated.
- One Laptop Per Child - the View from 1978
Lee Felsenstein, The Fonly Institute
Friday 26 June 2009, 4:00-5:00pm, Wilkinson Building, Architechture Lecture Theatre 1, Note different venue, no refreshments will be served
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About the Basser Seminar Series
The Basser Seminar Series held at the School of Information Technologies provides an opportunity for IT academics and representatives from industry to present and discuss their current work. The seminars offer a glimpse at the cutting-edge of IT research.
For further information on the Basser Seminar Series, or would like to subscribe to our Seminar announcements, please contact Jon Patrick by emailing 'seminar AT it DOT usyd DOT edu DOT au'.
When
The seminars are held fortnightly on Friday, beginning with refreshments at 3:30pm. The seminars will begin at 4:00pm, unless specified otherwise.
New Venue
Lecture Theatre Room 123, Level 1, School of IT Building, The University of Sydney. Please click here for location details.
Duration
One hour, including a 15 minutes period for questions and discussion.
Postgraduate Research Seminar Series
The School of Information Technologies also runs a new 'Postgraduate Research Seminar Series' as part of the Basser Seminar Series. The intention is to give an overview of the current research activities at our School.
Recent Seminars
- AnonySense: Privacy-Aware People-Centric Sensing, Professor David Kotz, Computer Science, Dartmouth College
- Computing for the Australian Square Kilometre Array Pathfinder, Dr Tim Cornwell, CSIRO / Australia Telescope National Facility (ATNF)
- The ADAGE Approach to User-Driven Large Scale Data Processing, Associate Professor Fethi Rabhi, School of Information Systems, UNSW
- Immortal DB: A Compelling Case for Transaction Time Database Systems, Dr David Lomet, Microsoft Research
- Mathematics of Privacy, Associate Professor Ljiljana Brankovic, The University of Newcastle
- Do we simply accept the Australian Internet filtering scheme or do we need to ask hard questions?, Associate Professor Bjorn Landfeldt, School of Information Technologies, The University of Sydney. Watch this seminar online.
- Quantum computing – information processing and storage in quantum spin systems, Dr Stephen Bartlett, Senior Lecturer in Physics, University of Sydney
- The Claremont Conversation Online and Related Social Software Research, Professor Lorne Olfman, Fletcher Jones Chair in Technology Management, School of Information Systems and Technology, Claremont Graduate University
- Data Quality and Data Provenance Research, Professor Xiaofang Zhou, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, University of Queensland
- More than a thousand words, Professor Stefan Rueger, Knowledge Media Institute, The Open University
- Towards a Quiescent World: Local Inference in Complex Systems, Professor Assaf Schuster, The Technion, Haifa, Israel