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Our student research rewarded
We’re very proud of our capstone projects. This year our students again won the national award for the best student research for the poster describing the virtual antfarm for the Otago Museum. Well done Trevor Farquharson, Jun Cui and Gareth Dorset (and Hamish and Patricia). Here’s the poster that won the student category at the 22nd NACCQ […]
The SimPa story in words
June 11, 2009
Looking back (and forward!), SimPa is quite different to how we first conceived it. Despite these differences, or perhaps because of them, it has far exceeded our expectations. Here’s the first stab at the words to follow the SimPa pictures (these are my personal thoughts, Tori is doing the same, tomorrow they join forces to become […]
The SimPa story in pictures
June 11, 2009
SimPa is our project working with Maori communities to build capacity in digital content to benefit the culture. Close to the end of the funding from the Digital Strategy, we’re awash in reports and milestones. Amidst all the words, we’ve spent time this week developing a visual comparison of where we thought the project would […]
Look out for new slogan: “Computing empowers you to do good”
June 3, 2009
Despite strong career prospects, computing education continues to suffer low student intakes and the rates for women are crazy low (Taulbee report). “Something is wrong with perceptions of computing” can be heard around the halls of every campus and computing conference. The truth may be that something is wrong with computing. There’s a report […]
Handprints to panarchy: 20 more sustainability diagrams
May 26, 2009
Diverse lot to add to the collection this time – from the very simple (how did I miss the balance images so far?) to those representing complex philosophical arguments. The handprint – as a complement to the footprint – is an extremely elegant way to describe the “doing good” or “restorative sustainability”. 159. Spectrum of […]
Computing for Sustainability 
July 15, 2009
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