Guest Author • Sep 30, 2019 •
Ngoni Faya February 11, 2013 is one of the days I won’t forget in my academic life. I was so excited, enthusiastic and more than ready to pursue my Master’s programme in Bioinformatics, which was designed to start with some intense course work to get everyone up to speed with the computing skills essential for research projects. But I was … Read More
Guest Author • Dec 14, 2017 •
Rafael A Calvo, University of Sydney and Dorian Peters, University of Sydney If kids spend hours a day speaking to digital personal assistant Alexa, how will this affect the way they connect to real people? When a self-driving car runs over a pedestrian, who do you take to court? Is it okay to manipulate people’s emotions … Read More
Robert Hickson • Aug 24, 2016 •
Ten years ago we were largely communicating with computers through key pads and mice. Then came touch screens, and more recently voice recognition systems such as Siri, Google Now, and Cortana. Tim O’Reilly has written a good article on LinkedIn about the voice recognition technology that sits within Amazon’s Echo, and what it signals for the future. O’Reilly makes … Read More
Robert Hickson • Sep 16, 2014 •
It’s interesting how “Watson”, the computing system from IBM, is gathering a persona around itself (or rather one is being woven for it). “Watson”, which garnered fame several years ago by winning a game show, is now doing scientific research, among other noble things. Though it’s still a distant forebear of HAL 9000, so the cult of persona doesn’t seem … Read More
Grant Jacobs • Sep 03, 2012 •
The New Zealand eScience Infrastructure (NeSI) is about to hit the road, touring a National High Performance Computing Roadshow through the country in September. NeSi ties together the major high-performance computing available for research in New Zealand and the expertise and services needed to best utilise them. Details of … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Jan 16, 2012 •
[Original post on the Sciblogs The Official Sciblogs Podcast site] Greetings, listeners! This week, aimee was away in Melbourne at the inagural AdaCamp barcamp. So Elf brought in his good friend Haritina Mogosanu, who works with KiwiSpace and World Space Week, to co-host with him. They talked about the number of planets in our galaxy, [...] … Read More
Aimee Whitcroft • Oct 28, 2011 •
I am profoudly fortunate. Every day, tonnes and tonnes of brilliant bits of information come flying at me over the intertubes. I try to send as many of them back out as I can, and so today, I thought I’d put a couple into a post. Enjoy! First up: ‘Ubiquitous Computing’ My … Read More
Peter Griffin • Oct 04, 2009 •
My This Way Up slot with Simon Morton this week looks at online back-up options for people who want to protect themselves against losing their precious digital content. The list of services we looked at was by no means exhaustive, but some leading players in the online storage space have emerged in the last couple of years, and as … Read More