Start: Tuesday Jul 5 2016 18:30 End: Tuesday Jul 5 2016 20:30 Location: 6th Floor, 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Link: http://luv.asn.au/meetings/map Speakers: * Dr Gill Lunniss and Daniel Jitnah, ICT in Education * Tim Baldwin, To Search Perchance to Find: Improving Information Access over Technical Web User Forums Dr Gill Lunniss and Daniel Jitnah, ICT in Education --------------------------------------------------- Dr. Gill Lunniss will present on: what is the Scientists, Mathematicians and ICT in Schools program, the background, what does a partnership look like and what they can do, examples of teacher requests, how to get involved and maybe some partnership stories depending on time. Daniel Jitnah will talk about using ICT, Linux and Open Source software in Education. He will also speak about his experience gained during his short involvement on the above program. Dr. Gill Lunniss has a BSc(hons) in chemistry from Aberdeen University and a PhD from Imperial College London. Prior to becoming a Scientists and Mathematicians in Schools Project Officer at CSIRO in 2013, he worked as a medicinal chemist for GlaxoSmithKline, UK and at the Cancer Therapeutics CRC, Monash Institute of Pharmaceutical Science. Daniel Jitnah is currently secretary of LUV. He has a particular interest in free software in education, and has been using Linux for over 15 years as his main operating system. He claims to have never used a Microsoft OS on any of his machines as main OS. Tim Baldwin, To Search Perchance to Find Improving Information Access over Technical Web User Forums ----------------------------------------------------------- Tim Baldwin will discuss approaches to tasks including thread discourse parsing and question equivalence detection as a means of improving information access over web user forums such as StackExchange. Tim Baldwin is a Professor in the Department of Computing and Information Systems, The University of Melbourne, and an Australian Research Council Future Fellow. He has previously held visiting positions at Cambridge University, University of Washington, University of Tokyo, Saarland University, NTT Communication Science Laboratories, and National Institute of Informatics. His research interests include text mining of social media, computational lexical semantics, information extraction and web mining, with a particular interest in the interface between computational and theoretical linguistics. Current projects include web user forum mining, monitoring and text mining of Twitter, and text analytics for the creative industries. Tim completed a BSc(CS/Maths) and BA(Linguistics/Japanese) at The University of Melbourne in 1995, and an MEng(CS) and PhD(CS) at the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 1998 and 2001, respectively. Prior to joining The University of Melbourne in 2004, he was a Senior Research Engineer at the Center for the Study of Language and Information, Stanford University (2001-2004). Venue ----- 200 Victoria St. Carlton VIC 3053 Late arrivals, please call (0490) 049 589 for access to the venue. Before and/or after each meeting those who are interested are welcome to join other members for dinner. We are open to suggestions for a good place to eat near our venue. Maria's on Peel Street in North Melbourne is currently the most popular place to eat after meetings. LUV would like to acknowledge Red Hat and Infoxchange for their help in obtaining the meeting venues. Linux Users of Victoria Inc. is an incorporated association, registration number A0040056C.