Byte Me - UofA CS Club: Recent Episodes
UofA CS Club
Imagine a TED talk but run by amateurs. We hear from top researchers and lecturers from the University of Adelaide on topics such as computer vision, natural language processing, optimisation, and security as well as interdisciplinary work with music, space, and robotics and so much more!
Want to be a doctor but don't like dealing with people in general let alone their ailments and never got into biology in high school so you started getting into coding but still kind of want to help people? Same. Medical imaging is a branch of computer vision with a focus on improving the ability to read a scan when we can't improve the physical scanner any further. Gustavo works in this area in the Australian Institute of Machine Learning.
Links:
Gustavo's Researcher Profile: https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/gustavo.carneiro
Kaggle Competitions: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions
CS Club discord: https://discord.gg/rYgCTdh
Social laws of online gaming, a new unsettling type of currency, why are we still stereotyping people? It's all data today.
Resources:Weapons of math destruction - Cathy O'Neill
CS Club Discord:
https://discord.gg/rYgCTdh
We've all had lecturers who read the slides word-for-word and don't engage with the class at all. How that can be changed so classes are more enjoyable for the masses, also, how the data that is automatically collected by cities can be used to improve the lives of its inhabitants.
Resources
Punished by Reward - Alfie Kohn
Australian Privacy Act
Nick's Researcher Profile
What do evolutionary art, geoscience, pipe network analysis, and renewable energy have in common? They all have problems that can be solved with computational search! A concept that students learn in class can be applied to large industrial scales. Find out how.
Links
Wave buoys
Evolutionary Art
Brad's Researcher Profile
The CS Club has a podcast! Why? Because we are a lazy people when it comes to reading large texts and all too introverted to go to more lectures than mandatory.
We have a new Instagram too. Find it here: https://www.instagram.com/compsci.adl/
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