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CSI Academy 2009 - REMINDER - sign up now! Deadline 19th September

Reminder - the deadline for company registration and project descriptions is this Saturday, 19th September.Please go to the Company Sign Up page, register you company, then login to register your proposed project description(s). Dear CSI newsletter subscribers, The University of Auckland’s CSI Academy internship programme is running again this year, and we are seeking company...  read more »

CSI Director wins national award

CSI Director Professor John Hosking was awarded a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award at a ceremony at Parliament Buildings on Wednesday night. This reflects both his passion for teaching (and research supervision in particular) and his advocacy for mentoring and industry engagement programmes such as the CSI Academy and Extenda programmes....  read more »

CSI June 2008 Newsletter

Welcome to this occasional newsletter from the CSI team. We have been pretty busy recently and felt a newsletter was the appropriate way to highlight some of  our achievements and opportunities coming up. We hope you find it of interest....  read more »

The Visual Wiki: a new metaphor for knowledge access and management

John Hosking recently gave a Google TechTalk on his research with PhD student Christian Hirsch, describing Visual Wiki's. The TechTalk was recorded and is shown below: Abstract Successful knowledge management results in a competitive advantage in today's information- and knowledge-rich industries....  read more »

John Corey

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Consultant

In over 30 years in the telecommunications and IT industry, John Corey has been engaged with a wide range of activities in the ICT sector including strategic planning for the Foundation for Research, Science and Technology as well as Intellectual Property Development. His previous roles include stints with Clear Communications, the Wellington City Council, Equant and the World Health Organization.

Contact

+64 9 373-7599 ext 89834

Nick Jones

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Consultant
Programme Leader
Mentor

Nick Jones works with experts at the CSI to help clients resolve fundamental computer science challenges. Nick Jones is Co-Director eResearch in the Centre for eResearch at The University of Auckland based in NZ, and is the Director of the NZ national grid computing and eResearch infrastructure project BeSTGRID.

Beryl Plimmer

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Senior Lecturer

Beryl Plimmer has been involved in the computer industry since the 1970s - initially as a programmer and systems programmer for various organisations in Auckland before pursuing a PhD project in software for interface design. The focus of Beryl's research is Human Computer Interaction specifically Pen-based computing, Informal interfaces, User-centred design, usability, site design and navigation.

Jun Huh

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Researcher
Administrator

Jun is involved in various projects within the CSI as a researcher and technical assistant. His main focus is on the administration, project management, and development of Marama meta-tools project, which is one of the SPPI projects, and is working to improve upon areas of project release cycle, team communication, and shared code management.

Contact

+64 9 373-7599 ext 84028

John Hosking welcomed attendees this morning to the International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems

CSI Co-chief Scientist Professor John Hosking provided the welcoming address this morning to the International Conference on Engineering of Complex Computer Systems being held at the University of Auckland.John spoke on the human factors involved in forging industry-academic linkages and highlighted several initiatives the CSI has established to foster industry engagement including the Extenda pro...  read more »

Software passion drives new CSI research manager

Stepping into his new role as Research Programme Manager for the Centre for Software Innovation at The University of Auckland Dr Santokh Singh is looking forward to applying wide commercial and research experience to bring industry and academic software research closer together.A former winner of Microsoft New Zealand's Microsoft.NET Research Scholarship, most recently Dr Singh lectured in Compute...  read more »