Past events

Dec

2015

Building Search Engines for the “Bottom Billion”

This is an event in the CSIRO IR & Friends series, in conjunction with RSCS HCC & Friends. About three quarters of a billion people are functionally illiterate, meaning that they...

Dec

2015

Introduction to Dynamic Social Network Analysis with Tnet

This is an event in the CSIRO IR & Friends series. Large majority of statistical analyses of both offline and online social networks based their studies on methods for static networks, even though most ofsocial networks are dynamic....

Nov

2015

An entrepreneurial path from academic innovation to commercial products

This presentation will include a history of taking a process from an academic laboratory curiosity to the cusp of commercial processing – entirely during major global economic downturns. The role of intellectual property, government...

Nov

2015

Teaching document computing

This is an event in the CSIRO IR & Friends series. ANU's "document analysis" course covers information retrieval, machine learning, natural language processing, information extraction, and web techologies. It has been taught over the...