SUITS Hack session this semester features a great variety of talks from students and Professors! Each talk will be taped and uploaded to our dedicated mini-site coming soon.
Hack sessions occur every Tuesday, 1-2pm in SIT Lab 117.
7th of Sept: Alan Turing & The Philosophy Of AI presented by Tim O’Keefe
The holy grail of the field of Artificial Intelligence (AI) is a general learning algorithm that can rival or surpass human intelligence. Though such a discovery is still some years off, it is still natural to ask the question: “Can machines think?”
This talk will primarily cover the contributions to this question by Alan Turing, as well as later work by John Searle. We’ll also delve into the implications of recent research into combining organic brains with synthetic bodies.
14th Sept: Ruby On Rails presented Will Cannings
Separate hype from fact, and learn how to create a web app using arguably the most well structured and easiest web framework around. Will cover Ruby basics, and the just released Rails 3.
21st Sep: Javascript From Zero to Hero presented by Ben Taylor
See how you can improve your skills at one of the fastest scripting languages around. Covering basics, OO, Functional Programming and some nifty tricks you didn’t realise existed.
5th Oct: SIT Tabletop Demo and Research presented by Professor Judy Kay
Professor Judy Kay presents some of the leading research being conducted at USYD in the fields of surface computing and a demo of the much talked about Tabletop being developed in SIT.
12th Oct: Machine Learning presented by Will Cannings
Interested in how Google can target AdWords to the content of a page, or how your email client can filter spam? Learn about Machine Learning from a high level perspective, and how to implement a few simple algorithms.
19th Oct: Up in the clouds: Cloud computing internals presented by Alex Sharp
Explaining cloud computing, what it is, what it does and how it works.
26th Oct: TBA
