Below is a list of presentations, demonstrations, seminars, talks
etc. that I have given. (Note that this list is no longer being updated)
| September 2006 |
Gave a presentation about Conversation Search to the HCSNet Next Generation Search Workshop in Melbourne.
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| September 2006 |
Gave an invited seminar about Using Context to deliver useful information to people
as a CHISIG event in Sydney.
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| September 2006 |
Lead technical demonstrations and discussion of Myriad, SciFly, Constructor and our tailored delivery expertise
to senior engineering staff from The Boeing Company (USA).
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| August 2006 |
Demonstration of SciFly and discussion of Myriad with Professor Steven Feiner from Columbia University, New York.
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| June 2006 |
Presentation of Myriad and our expertise in context-sensitive information delivery
to representatives from a pharmaceutical computer company.
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| May 2006 |
Demonstration of SciFly and Myriad at CeBIT Australia 2006, and business development discussions with several
interested companies.
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| May 2006 |
Invited seminar at CeBIT Australia 2006 on Contextualised Information
Retrieval and Delivery as part of the FutureParc seminar series.
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| April 2006 |
Commercial-in-confidence presentation to senior management from The Boeing Company (USA) and Boeing Australia
Limited.
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| December 2005 |
Webex presentation and demonstration to Boeing Phantom Works in Seattle, USA.
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| November 2005 |
Invited presentation and demonstration to the Science Advisory Council for the CSIRO ICT Centre.
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| November 2005 |
Poster Presentation and software demonstration at the CSIRO ICT Centre Science and Engineering Conference.
Our poster ended up winning 'Best Poster/Demonstration' prize by popular vote.
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| October 2005 |
Presentation and demonstration of successful integration (using JMS middleware) between
the Composer's Workbench data integration tool and Myriad/Constructor at the CSIRO Information
Engineering Information Exchange Day in Canberra.
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| October 2005 |
Presentation and demonstration (via WebEx) of integration between Composer's Workbench
data integration tool and Myriad/Constructor environment to Boeing Phantom Works.
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| August 2005 |
Presented work on rearchitecting and refactoring of the service infrastructure for
our Myriad platform to a team of software engineers at the CSIRO ICT Centre in Canberra.
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| July 2005 |
At the request of Channel 10 and CSIRO Education, I presented three 90 second technology segments on camera
(and did voice-overs) for the upcoming Science show, Scope, to be screened on Channel 10 from September
2005. Produced by the same production team as Totally Wild,
Scope targets a similar audience (8-14 year olds), but with the focus squarely on science and technology. The three
segments I presented were about explaining how the internet, mobile phones and mp3 players work (at a very simple level). |
| May 2005 |
Showcased SciFly at CeBIT 2005 in Sydney for three days,
which generated a lot of public interest and enthusiasm. Over the three days, we generated almost 300 tailored
flyers. |
| May 2005 |
Demonstrations and discussion with representatives from Boeing
USA |
| March 2005 |
Demonstrations and discussion with Max Ott, Co-founder and
Chief Technical Officer of Semandex.
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| February 2005 |
Demonstrations and discussion with Professor Dr Erich Steiner
of Saarland University |
| February 2005 |
Invited speaker for the CSIRO "Big Day Out", where I delivered
a talk on "So you want to be a scientist" to vacation students.
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| February 2005 |
Discussion and demonstration of some of our work in dynamic
document generation to Professor Harold Somers, Professor of
Language Engineering at the University of Manchester, UK. Professor
Somer's area of expertise is in machine translation, but he
has an interest in many other areas of language technology.
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| February 2005 |
Software demonstrations, research presentation and discussion
about our work in contextualised information retrieval and delivery,
for representatives from the research section of General Motors
in the USA and from Holden Innovation Centre in Australia. |
| January 2005 |
Discussion and demonstration of some of our work in dynamic
document generation to Dr. Floriana Grasso from the University
of Liverpool, UK. |
| December 2004 |
Software demonstration and research presentation about our
work in dynamic report generation for representatives from Boeing
for a commercial-in-confidence project. |
| December 2004 |
Oral paper presentation about "Information
Assembly for Adaptive Display", presented at the Australasian
Language Technology Workshop in Sydney. |
| October 2004 |
Oral paper presentation about Contextualised
Information Retrieval and Delivery at the Inaugural CSIRO
ICT Centre Science and Technology Conference, National Maritime
Museum, Sydney. My talk was awarded the prize for best oral
paper presentation. |
| September 2004 |
An invited seminar on "Task-Sensitive User Interfaces"
presented with my colleague, Dr Nathalie Colineau, as part of
the CSIRO HAIL Seminar
Series. |
| August 2004 |
Presentation and demonstration of our work in task-sensitive,
adaptive user interfaces and tailored information delivery in
the tourism domain to Associate Professor Ted Selker, Director
of the Context Aware Computing Lab at the MIT Media & Arts Technology
Laboratory. |
| June 2004 |
Commercial-in-Confidence presentation and demonstration of
our work in task-sensitive, adaptive user interfaces to representatives
from the US Aerospace industry, Australian Government, Wedgetail
TRDC and the RAAF. This formed part of our project reporting
for the Data Fusion, Data Management and Situation Assessment
project with Boeing (US). |
| May 2004 |
Presentation and demonstration of our work in task-sensitive,
adaptive user interfaces, as well as work in air surveillance
scenario simulation at CeBiT 2004 in Sydney. |
| April 2004 |
Presentation and demonstration of our work in task-sensitive,
adaptive user interfaces, to CSIRO ICT Centre research management
and business development staff as part of our research stream
workshop. |
| March 2004 |
Presentation and demonstration of our work in task-sensitive,
adaptive user interfaces, as well as work in air surveillance
scenario simulation to Dr Marie-Luce Bourguet, from the University
of London. |
| January 2004 |
Discussion and presentation of CSIRO work on task based, adaptive
user interfaces to Rainer Wasinger from DFKI,
the German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence. |
| December 2003 |
Presentation of CSIRO work on task based, adaptive user interfaces
to David Reitter from the MIT
Media Lab in Dublin. |
| December 2003 |
Presentation of CSIRO work on task based, adaptive user interfaces
to Professor Guozhong Dai and Professor Hongan Wang from the
Intelligence
Engineering Lab, Institute of Software at the Chinese Academy
of Sciences. |
| September 2003 |
Presentation of CSIRO work on tailored information delivery
to Dr
Bill Howard. Specifically focussed on work in customised
delivery of travel brochure information using our natural language
generation engine. |
| July 2003 |
Interview
with Dan Kaufman from The
Sydney Morning Herald about Software Usability and Computer
Rage. |
| February 2003 |
Panel Member in 'Big Day Out' discussion of what it's like working as a scientist
in CSIRO. |
| July 2002 |
Presentation about CSIRO work in tailored information delivery
to George Erdos of Future School. |
| April 2002 |
Presenter of CSIRO ICT research at CeBiT. |
