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Aug 14, 2021

How to get started with research writing

Now’s the time of year that I get started with a new crop of Honours, Master and project students at the ANU School of Computing and at the UiO Department of Informatics.

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Aug 2, 2021

Magic Lanterns in Canberra

Over the last few years I’ve been invited to perform at several concerts with Martyn Jolley as part of his Heritage in the Limelight project. Martyn and fellow researcher Elisa deCourcy have been exploring magic lantern slide projection from a historical perspective and for creative re-use.

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Mar 16, 2021

Shape-shifting robots in the wild: the DyRET robot

Imagine running on a cement footpath, and then suddenly through dry sand. Just to keep upright, you would have to slow down and change the way you run. In the same way, a walking robot would have to change its gait to handle different surfaces.

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Jan 10, 2021

Laptop Music Coding with Gibber

This is a workshop designed for students who have never done any coding before to start by making some computer music! Here’s the description:

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Aug 9, 2020

How to present a student software project

So you’re a student working on an individual project this semester (how exciting!) and your supervisor has asked you to submit the software as well as a report. So how are you going to present this great work? An email? A zipfile? A USB key?

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Jul 16, 2020

A note on tutorials with Teams

This is part 2 of my series of posts on online teaching in 2020; this time I’m going to write about how we set up tutorials for COMP2300 in Microsoft Teams.

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