Year 11 students attended a non-stop cyberday at the University on Friday 9 October.Part of the Australian Information Technology Spring School, the Cyberday was open to 3 Unit Maths or 2/3 Unit (related) Computing Studies).
Workshops on email, Java, HTML and Netscape were held, along with a live video conference with students in Los Angeles.
The Keynote Speech was given by Foundation Law Project Manager Sandra Davey. IT Lecturer Peter Castle demonstrated computer graphics as used in movies.
The President of the Iron and Steel Society in the US, Bob Jones
(right) was at the University of Wollongong on Friday 9 October to
present Dr Geoff Brooks (left) with the Prestigious Iron and Steel
Society Award. With them is the Deputy Vice Chancellor, Professor
Peter Robinson. This is the first time the award, worth $150 000 US,
has been awarded outside of the United States.
Should academic charlatanism be identified and eliminated, or do attempts to do so inevitably decend into vague cultural witch-hunts?
Two eminent scientists will debate these ideas before an audience at lunch time on Wednesday October 21.
Professor Ian Plimer, Head of the School of Geology at the University of Melbourne, will argue the point with Professor Mark Deisendorf, Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Professor Plimer, well-known for his stance against creation science, will argue for the affirmative, that academic charlatanism should be identified and eliminated.
Professor Deisendorf, who believes the idea of charlatanism is often used by powerful vested interests to put down less powerful groups, will argue for the negative.
Held at the Hope Theatre at 12:30, the lecture will be open to all and should provide a stimulating and entertaining overview of the topic.