Mozilla’s Laura Thomson returns to CSIT for Friday seminar

By CSIT | Published: May 22, 2013
Mozilla's Laura Thomson is speaking to the School on Firefox Crash Reporting

Mozilla's Laura Thomson is speaking to the School on Firefox Crash Reporting

Former CSIT student and staff member, Laura Thomson is returning to RMIT’s School of Computer Science and IT on Friday 24 May to catch up with old friends and give a seminar on Firefox Crash Reporting, while she’s at it.

Laura is now an engineering manager with Mozilla in the USA and is back in Melbourne for a brief visit home, so catch her while you can!

Firefox Crash Reporting
Laura Thomson, Mozilla
Date and time: Friday 24 May, 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Venue: RMIT City Campus, Building 12, Level 5, Room 2 (12.05.02)
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Title: Firefox Crash Reporting
Speaker: Laura Thomson, Mozilla
Date and time: Friday 24 May, 12.30pm – 1.30pm
Venue: RMIT City Campus, Building 12, Level 5, Room 2 (12.05.02)
Laura is the author of the book “PHP and MySQL Web Development” and was also recently named one of the 13 Secret Rock Stars of Silicon Valley!
Laura will talk about the crash-reporting infrastructure for Firefox, combining topics like managing Big (Huge!) Data and super-high Availability system requirements. It will be an informal talk, so bring along all your questions about life working at Mozilla, and your favourite Firefox bug/crash stories!

PS: note the non-standard time and room and add this event to your Google calendar:

Laura Thomson - Mozilla

Laura Thomson - Mozilla

Seminar Organisation

Seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary. If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Lawrence Cavedon, the seminar co-ordinator, lawrence.cavedon@rmit.edu.au.
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Another PhD completion – congratulations to Amir!

By CSIT | Published: April 24, 2013
Another PhD completion!
The examiners’ reports have been received and Amir Aryani’s PhD thesis, entitled “Predicting Change Propagation Using Domain-Based Coupling”, has been classified as “Passed, subject to minor amendments”.
Congratulations to Amir and Dr Margaret Hamilton and Dr Ian Peake, his supervisors.
Amir Aryani - another PhD completion for CSIT!

Amir Aryani - another PhD completion for CSIT!

Another PhD completion for RMIT’s School of Computer Science and IT!

The examiners’ reports have been received and Amir Aryani’s PhD thesis, entitled “Predicting Change Propagation Using Domain-Based Coupling”, has been classified as “Passed, subject to minor amendments”.
Congratulations to Amir, as well as Dr Margaret Hamilton and Dr Ian Peake, his supervisors.
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Traralgon College visits CSIT – High school students wowed by John Thangarajah’s presentation

By Robert | Published: April 19, 2013
John Thangarajah presenting to high school students from Traralgon College

Dr. John Thangarajah presenting to high school students from Traralgon College

A big “Thank you” to Dr. John Thangarajah for coming on board yet again with an engaging and captivating presentation.

John’s enthusiasm and continuing help with various marketing and promotional activities over the past 12 months is much appreciated by all of us.

Good on ya, John !!!

Also many thanks to Jenny Andrews for stepping in to talk about Higher Education Studies in the VCE.

Find out more about John’s Intelligent Agents research and student projects.

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Top Google research chief at RMIT seminar – video and slides available

By CSIT | Published: April 12, 2013

Dr_AlonHalevy02Visiting Google research chief Dr Alon Halevy may have come to Melbourne for the coffee, but all those who came to see him speak last Monday at the joint seminar hosted by the School of CSIT with NICTA (National ICT Australia) were grateful he found time to pop by RMIT University and expound on Recent Advances on Structured Data and the Web.

The talk was so popular registrations had been closed by NICTA when the full house of 300 had been reached, but if you were one of the unlucky ones who missed out his slides and a video of the talk are now available for you to see online.

See Dr Halevy’s presentation slides.

Watch the video of Dr Halevy’s seminar.

From all at the School of Computer Science and IT, “Thank you, Alon!”

Dr_AlonHalevy01For further information about events and seminars at the School of Computer Science and IT:

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CSIT welcomes Associate Professor Tao Gu at his first School Seminar today

By CSIT | Published: April 12, 2013
Infrastructure-free Floor Localization via Mobile Phone Sensing
Assoc. Prof. Tao Gu
School of CS&IT, RMIT University
Date and time: 11.30 – 12.30, Friday 12 April 2013
Venue: RMIT University, Building 10, Level 8, Room 4 (10.08.04)
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Abstract:
Mobile phone localization plays a key role in location based services. Most of the existing localization schemes rely on infrastructure support such as GSM, WiFi or GPS. In this work, we present a novel floor localization system to identify the floor level in a multifloor building on which a mobile user is located. We use the mobile phone.s accelerometer only without any infrastructure support. We do not require any prior knowledge of the building such as floor height. By capturing user encounters and analyzing user trails, we find the mapping from the traveling time (when taking the elevator) or the step counts (when walking on the stairs) between any two floors to the number of floor levels. The mapping can then be used for mobile users to pinpoint their current floor levels. We conduct both simulation and field studies to demonstrate the effectiveness of our approach.
About the speaker:
Dr. Gu is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University. Prior to joining RMIT, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 2005, his M.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2001, and his B.Eng. degree in Automatic Control from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.
His research interests are in the areas of mobile and pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, distributed network systems, big data analytics, and online social networks. His publications appear in top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and top-tier conferences, including PerCom, UbiComp, INFOCOM, and ICNP.
Seminar Organisation
Seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary. If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Lawrence Cavedon, the seminar co-ordinator, lawrence.cavedon@rmit.edu.au.
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School home page: http://www.rmit.edu.au/compsci

Tao_Gu_01Freshly installed at RMIT’s School of Computer Science and IT, Associate Professor Tao Gu today delivered his first seminar, as part of the School’s regular seminar series, titled Infrastructure-free Floor Localization via Mobile Phone Sensing.

A healthy crowd of CSIT staff and students came to hear Tao describe his research into mobile phone sensing, with particular attention to being able to locate people in buildings during emergency situations, without specific prior knowledge of the building concerned, such as floor height, etc.

Read more about Tao’s seminar.

Check out the future events on the School Facebook page, or the School home page.

About Tao Gu

Dr. Gu is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science and Information Technology at RMIT University. Prior to joining RMIT, he was an Assistant Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at the University of Southern Denmark. He obtained his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science from National University of Singapore in 2005, his M.S. degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore in 2001, and his B.Eng. degree in Automatic Control from Huazhong University of Science and Technology in 1990. He is a member of the IEEE and the ACM.

Tao_Gu_02His research interests are in the areas of mobile and pervasive computing, wireless sensor networks, distributed network systems, big data analytics, and online social networks. His publications appear in top-tier journals, including IEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing, IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Journal on Selected Areas in Communications, and top-tier conferences, including PerCom, UbiComp, INFOCOM, and ICNP.

Seminar Organisation

Seminars are free and open to the general public. No booking is necessary. If you are interested in giving a presentation in this seminar series, or to make suggestions for speakers, please contact Lawrence Cavedon, the seminar co-ordinator, lawrence.cavedon@rmit.edu.au.

Follow the School on Facebook.

CSIT School Seminar Series 2013.

Add the CSIT Events Google calendar: rmit.edu.au_qavandka1upp4redk5bfrdbelg@group.calendar.google.com

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CSIT’s Adriana Del Mastro and Dora Poulakis receive award for supporting sessional staff

By CSIT | Published: April 11, 2013

Adriana and Dora win BLASST award

Adriana and Dora win BLASST award

Adriana Del Mastro and Dora Poulakis, School of Computer Science and IT, received a commendation for administrative and academic preparation and support for sessional staff at the recent BLASST leadership summit.

Well done, Adriana and Dora – our sessionals salute you!

Read more.

Follow the story via the School’s Scoop.it! page.

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Top Google speaker at CSIT evening seminar – Monday 8 April

By CSIT | Published: April 5, 2013
The next instalment in the School of Computer Science and IT seminar and NICTA Discovery
Seminar series is on today. The speaker is Dr Alon Halevy, Head, Structured Data Management
Research group at Google Inc.
Title: Recent Advances on Structured Data and the Web
Date: Monday, 8 April
Time: 5.30 – 6.45pm
Venue: Building 80, level 7, room 1, Swanston Academic Building, City campus
For more information, join the Facebook event page and invite friends: https://www.facebook.com/events/137239336448464/

halevy-bigA senior researcher with Google, Dr Alon Halevy, is speaking at the next instalment of the CSIT Seminar Series and NICTA Discovery Seminar series on Monday 8 April.

Title: Recent Advances on Structured Data and the Web

Speaker: Dr Alon Halevy, Head, Structured Data Management, Research group at Google Inc.

Date: Monday, 8 April

Time: 5.30 – 6.45pm

Venue: Building 80, level 7, room 1, Swanston Academic Building, City campus

For more information, join the Facebook event page and invite your friends.

Please also register your attendance via NICTA’s registration page for catering purposes.

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Phd students farewell Research Coordinator Dora Drakopoulos

By CSIT | Published: April 3, 2013

PhD students from the School of Computer Science and IT threw a party with cake, presents and flowers on Tuesday 19 March to farewell popular Research Coordinator Dora Drakopoulos.

Dora had been filling the role for a year and a half, as maternity cover for another staff member, and returns to School Reception with the gratitude and best wishes of all staff and students at the School.

Check out the following photos from Dora’s leaving party (double click on each image to see full size):

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Another PhD completion! Congratulations, Wasala!

By CSIT | Published: March 28, 2013

PhD completion - Wasala Appuhamilage

PhD completion - Wasala Appuhamilage

Another PhD completion!

The examiners’ reports have been received and Wasala Appuhamilage Gamini Abhaya’s PhD thesis, entitled “Towards Achieving Execution Time Predictability in Web Services Middleware”, has been classified as “passed, subject to minor amendments”.

Congratulations to Wasala Appuhamilage and Professor Zahir Tari and Dr Peter Bertok, his supervisors.

Find out more about Computer Science and IT research at RMIT.

Study for a PhD in Computer Science at RMIT.

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School receptionist, Melina Pscheidl, is leaving today!

By CSIT | Published: March 22, 2013

School receptionist, Melina Pscheidl, is leaving RMIT today and heading to Europe for a long, and much deserved, holiday.

Melina Pscheidl is leaving CSIT reception and heading off to Europe

Melina Pscheidl is leaving CSIT reception and heading off to Europe

Everyone at the School of Computer Science and IT wishes Melina well in her travels!

Thanks for everything, Melina, and good luck!

Melina and the admin team

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