Media Alerts 2005 Archive
8 December 2005 - Artificial Intelligence
2 December 2005 - UNSW@ADFA DEGREE CONFERRAL CEREMONIES
25 November 2005 - LTGEN Hurley to launch ADFA’s new Formula SAE-A Racing Car
31 October 05 - Was Ned Kelly a domestic terrorist?
8 December 2005 - Artificial Intelligence
WHAT: 2 Seminars by leading researchers on Artificial Intelligence
WHERE: Room 152, Building 15, School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, UNSW@ADFA, Northcott drive, Canberra.
WHEN: Commencing at 1.00pm on Friday 9 December 2005
Seminar 1: 1.00PM - Little Models, Big Results
Prof. David Goldberg, University of Illinois, USA
Abstract:
Artificial intelligence and artificial life are nothing if not ambitious.
The creation of an artificial intellect or life form is a daunting task, and daunting tasks seem to call for pulling out all the stops and using the biggest, “baddest” analytical tools on the block. Indeed over many, many years, AI and A-Life have thrown a plethora of sophisticated mathematical and computational techniques at solving the important problems of AI and AL, but the track record is mixed, and many of the knotty problems are problems still. This talk suggests a simpler approach to penetrating the complexity of AI and AL. In particular, a methodology of little models, using facet wise analyses, dimensional analysis, and a procedure of patchquilt integration are suggested to construct models that are especially useful in the design of AI and AL that works. The little modelling methodology is illustrated with a case study drawn from the development of competent and efficient genetic algorithms, including models of population size, run duration, and market share, and the race, and other examples are given from current work in the development of a simplified quantitative organizational theory (SQOT). The talk concludes by suggesting specific ways to adopt these techniques to advance the agendas of AI and AL.
Seminar 2: 2.00PM - Creating Artificial Cells
Prof. Mark Bedau, Reed College, USA
Abstract:
Artificial life is the attempt to synthesize living systems or life-like behaviour by artificial means. If we let "soft" artificial life refer to computer simulations or other purely digital constructions that exhibit life-like behaviour, we should also recognize "hard" artificial life which produces hardware implementations of life-like systems, and "wet" artificial life which involves the creation of life-like systems from biochemical substances in the laboratory. The holy grail of wet artificial life is to create an artificial cell in the laboratory out of materials found in a chemical supply room. This talk will discuss the current state of the art in wet artificial life; including the authors own efforts which involve critical contributions from soft and hard artificial life, as well as private commercial enterprises. The talk will end by raising some of the social and ethical implications of creating artificial cells, including the innovations required in policy analysis and risk management.
2 December 2005 - UNSW@ADFA DEGREE CONFERRAL CEREMONIES
WHAT: UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy Degree Conferral Ceremonies
WHERE: Adams Hall, ADFA off Northcott Drive, Campbell, ACT
WHEN: Wednesday 7 December 2005 Humanities and Social Sciences (10.30am – 12.00 noon) Science and Engineering (2.30pm – 5.00pm)
The Chancellor of the University of New South Wales, Mr David Gonski will award degrees to 511 students at two ceremonies at the ADFA Campus. The majority of the degrees being presented will be to Midshipmen and Officer Cadets of the Australian Defence Force.
Media opportunities exist for visuals during the ceremony and limited interviews.
A media release with detailed information will be forwarded on Tuesday 6 December.
Media should assemble at the Memorial Tree outside of Adams Hall 15 minutes before the start of each ceremony.
Morning Ceremony: (commences 10.30am) 235 Awards
- Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Business
- Graduate Programs (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters) in Arts, Arts (English), Defence Studies, Management Studies
- Research Degrees – PhDs in Economics, Management, English, Literature, Language, History, Politics, Geography and Master of Arts
Guest Speaker: Ms Carolyn Hardy.
Carolyn Hardy is Chief Executive of UNICEF Australia. UNICEF is the United Nations Children’s Fund.
Afternoon Ceremony: (commences 2.30pm) 276 Awards
- Bachelor of Science, Bachelor of Engineering, Bachelor of Technology
- Graduate Programs (Graduate Certificate, Graduate Diploma and Masters) in Science, Engineering Science, Information Technology, Operations Research and statistics
- Research Degrees – PhDs in Engineering, Chemistry, Computer Science, Oceanography, Geography, Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Master of Science and Master of Engineering
Guest Speaker: Dr James Bradfield Moody
James Bradfield Moody is currently the Director, Divisional Business Strategy at the CSIRO Division of Land and Water.
25 November 2005 - LTGEN Hurley to launch ADFA’s new Formula SAE-A Racing Car
Who: Lieutenant General David Hurley
What: Will launch the new UNSW@ADFA Formula SAE-A Racing Car
Where: Hard Parade Ground Area A (No.86 on attached map)
When: 2.30pm Monday 28 November 2005
Why: Lieutenant General David Hurley of Capability Development Group is the patron of the UNSW@ADFA Formula SAE-A Racing Team.
In addition to launching the new SAE Car, LTGEN Hurley will also farewell the Midshipmen and Officer Cadets taking part in the 2005 Formula SAE-A Championships being held in Werribee Victoria from the 1st- 4th December 2005.
The Formula SAE competition requires university students to design and build a formula styled racing vehicle. The competition was established in the United States and was first introduced to Australia in 2000. The School of Aerospace, Civil and Mechanical Engineering (ACME) has been involved in the event for past two years. The first time ADFA entered a vehicle in the Australian competition was at Werribee, Victoria in 2004.
31 October 05 - Was Ned Kelly a domestic terrorist?
A UNSW academic will present a paper that shows that the so-called domestic terrorists and their sympathisers of today have their forebears in this country's history.
The paper, entitled "The Terrorist's Voice: Ned Kelly, Rolf Boldrewood and Peter Carey", will be given on Tuesday 8 November at 3.40pm in SL1 (Bldg 21) at the Australian Defence Force Academy.
Paul Eggert, a Professor of English at UNSW located at the Australian Defence Force Academy in Canberra, presents a paper that identifies historical similarities with present-day Government agendas. Will the next Ned Kelly be a Muslim? is the question that this paper implicitly asks. It is a study of Australians' continuous fascination with outlawry since colonial times right up into the present. And the attendant divisiveness, which the currently proposed anti-terrorist legislation may, once again, be catapulting us into.
Professor Eggert teaches courses on eighteenth to twentieth century British literature, Modernism, the Victorian novel, travel literature, print culture and editing theory. He has taught at UNSW at the Australian Defence Force Academy since its inception in 1986, following five years at La Trobe University in Melbourne and a year at RMC Duntroon, the forerunner of ADFA.
Professor Eggert writes in the areas of print culture, editorial theories of the text, the restoration of historic buildings and paintings, and on D.H. Lawrence. He was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities in 1998 and received a personal Chair in 2001 and Centenary Medal in 2003. He chairs the Executive Board of the AustLit database and is president of the Bibliographical Society of Australia and New Zealand. (Abstract available)