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50 Years of Computing at RMIT

50 Years of Computing at RMIT

The School of Computer Science and IT has internationally recognised strengths in both applied and theoretical research. Research activities are organised within four key disciplines groups which include highly qualified and experienced academic staff, research fellows, postdoctoral fellows and many talented and motivated postgraduate research students.

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Postgraduate research degrees at Computer Science and IT

Research publications

Awards

  • Dr Falk Scholer and Dr Andrew Turpin won the best paper award at the Fifth Asia Information Retrieval Symposium (AIRS 2009) in Japan. Their paper, ‘Metric and relevance mismatch in retrieval evaluation’, investigates different approaches for the analysis of search engine performance, and demonstrates that both task types and user behaviour need to be carefully accounted for so that meaningful conclusions can be drawn from evaluation experiments.
  • Mr Steven Burrows won a best Student Paper Award at the 33rd Annual IEEE International Computer Software and Applications Conference in Seattle, July 2009, for his paper, ‘Temporary Robust Software Features for Authorship Attribution’. The paper, based on part of Steven’s PhD candidature, outlines an information retrieval methodology for investigating source code authorship attribution effectiveness on source code generated at different time periods.
  • Dr. Mingfang Wu, Dr. Andrew Turpin and Professor Justin Zobel won the Best Paper Award at the 2008 Australasian Computer Science Conference. The paper described experiments evaluating how different users click on search results in web search engines after issuing identical queries.
  • Professor Lin Padgham won the 2007 RMIT Vice-Chancellor's Award for Research Excellence. Since joining RMIT in 1995, Professor Padgham has built a very strong research group in the area of Intelligent Systems which now involves some 14 RMIT staff and 20 research students. In presenting the award, Vice-Chancellor Margaret Gardner said that during the past three years Professor Padgham had published more than 26 refereed papers and a monograph on 'Developing Intelligent Agent Systems', been very successful in Australian Research Council grants since 1999 and in particular has secured three Discovery and three Linkage grants in the past three years, collaborated across RMIT, outside her own School and College, in winning Linkage grants and been very active professionally as editor for two premium international journals in Software Engineering and contributed to the organisation of a wide range of prestigious international conferences.
  • In 2006 Kwong Yuen Lai was awarded the Australasian Distinguished Doctoral Dissertation Award. Dr. Kwong Lai was supervised by Professor Zahir Tari and Dr. Peter Bertok.
  • In 2004 the award was won by another PhD candidate of the School – Dr. James Brusey, supervised by Professor Lin Padgham.

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Research Programs Administrator
School of Computer Science and IT
City campus: Building 14 Level 8 Room 6
Postal address: GPO Box 2476, Melbourne VIC 3001
Tel: +61 3 9925 2169
Fax: +61 3 9662 1617
Email: research@cs.rmit.edu.au