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TikiTouring around the capstone

May 30, 2012

(update: here are the pictures from the launch). In a first for Maori tourism a free Maori visitor app to the lower South Island is being launched this Friday. KUMA, (Te Kupeka Umaka Māori ki Araiteuru) the Māori business network for the lower South Island is launching a free app linked to the recent project […]

Polytechnic geeks ace speed dating

September 23, 2010

Dunedin ICT Internship Speed Dating 2010 Originally uploaded by Samuel Mann Last night 22 of our students met with 14 of the city’s IT firms in a bid to secure much sought after summer internships. This is a perfect win-win-win. Last year 24 students from Polytechnic and University got internships and 17 of these resulted […]

CityScape team wins national award – again!

July 14, 2010

CityScape is a panoramic exhibition system for the Otago Settlers’ Museum. It engages visitors to the museum in building a shared narrative of place. Sustainability is a theme in our capstone projects. We have a focus on communicating and engaging people in aspects of sustainability. We took the CityScape poster to the CITRENZ Conference (incorporating […]

Capstone collaborations

August 19, 2009

A feature of our degree is the capstone project. Today I had to write a report outlining the 2009 collaborations with community and business organisations. It’s quite a list, so I thought I’d share it here. At the bottom of the list is the work Bachelor of Information Technology students are doing with other areas […]

Software engineering and sustainability

July 30, 2009

We believe Software Engineering is ideally placed to provide a vehicle for sustainability in computing. Here’s the aspects of sustainability we would like to see in our graduates. With only a few exceptions, these things are covered by the Software Engineering curriculum (see paper for our teaching structure). Systems Thinking: – actions will have […]