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  • Congrats Dr. Chenchen Xu1 June 23

    A big congratulations to my PhD student Chenchen for successfully completing his PhD; his thesis title was Weakly Supervised Vision and Language Representation Learning in Sign Language Understanding. It's freelly available online from the ANU Library....

  • Congrats Dr. Kieran Browne26 Jan 23

    Last December Kieran graduated---very exciting for all concerned....

  • Moving to the School of Cybernetics11 May 21

    Some job news---I've just accepted a position in the new School of Cybernetics in the ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics. I'll finish out my teaching this semester in the School of Computing then I'll make the move in July. For those not familiar with the ANU org-chart or acronymicon, there are multiple Schools in each College (so I'm moving Schools but staying within the same College)....

  • ANZSRC FoR Codes 2020 edition18 Mar 21

    The Australian Research Council (well, technically the Australian Bureau of Statistics and their NZ counterparts) have updated the Field of Research codes which Aussie/NZ academics use to classify their work.[^interdisciplinary-complaint]...

  • Simple pdf papers/reports with markdown, pandoc and bibtex16 Mar 21

    I've long raged against the machine of my institution's default LaTeX template for dissertations and other reports, which is:...

  • Configuring Spacemacs org-roam & org-noter for academic writing bliss16 Dec 20

    I've always had a decent memory, and so I've never really had a formal system for keeping track of who said what and in which paper. When it comes time to write something of my own I end up mostly just going from memory and re-google-scholaring things from scratch (often finding later that I already had that paper in my Zotero database already). As I get older my memory isn't as sharp, so I think it's time to use a more systematic workflow for wr...

  • A call-up to fight covid1918 Apr 20

    As with many folks at the moment (both in Canberra and around the world) I've been called up into a covid19 taskforce (an initiative of the ANU's Software Innovation Institute, in partnership with the RSCS & other parts of the ANU). I'm the technical lead on the part of the project which is trying to wrap up epidemiological simulation models into usable & robust tools for seeing & understanding what the results of said models mean for the Canberr...

  • Mapping the livecoding landscape21 Sept 19

    and Media, RSH Düsseldorf Griffith University Department of Music, Durham University University of Sussex Laboratory Music, Durham University Communication, University of Leeds Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University Worcester Polytechnic Institute York University Queen Mary University of London Communication Studies and Multimedia, McMaster University_...

  • Making the most of meetings with research students6 Aug 19

    tl;dr here are my standard questions for one-to-one meetings with research students...

  • The c/c/c studio20 Mar 19

    Note to readers: this is the project plan for my Reimagine Fellowship. If you're just here for the short version, see the elevator pitch. Alternately, if you want to know the "big picture vision" stuff behind this project, then that's here. Finally, you can check out the main CECS Reimagine page for more general information about the Reimagine project....

  • Reimagining Engineering & CS at the ANU7 Feb 19

    The ANU College of Engineering, Computing and Cybernetics (CECS) is being Reimagined. Don't take my word for it; listen to our fearless leader Elanor:...

  • CHI hangs22 June 18

    Here's a photo of Kieran and I hanging out at CHI. I'll write a more detailed trip report some other time, but from the general chats I had with people (and random unsolicited blog posts) it seems like the ritual started some conversations....

  • The Other Side: Algorithm as Ritual in Artificial Intelligence24 Apr 18

    Tomorrow morning (Wed April 25, 9am Montréal time) Kieran Browne and I are performing an Artificial Intelligence divination ritual as part of the alt.chi session Scary, Sporty, Ginger and Posh....