Lunch Time Seminar
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2012 Seminar Series
Schedule
| Date | Title | Speaker | Abstract |
| 4 May 2012 | IBM's Watson and Final Jeopardy | David Ferrucci | David Ferrucci of IBM discusses the DeepQA Project; the technology and architecture behind IBM's newest technological innovation, the question answering and natural language processing system, Watson. |
| 11 May 2012 | Schools kill creativity | Ken Robinson | Sir Ken Robinson makes an entertaining and profoundly moving case for creating an education system that nurtures (rather than undermines) creativity. Creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson challenges the way we're educating our children. He champions a radical rethink of our school systems, to cultivate creativity and acknowledge multiple types of intelligence. |
Topic Wish List
- IBM's Watson and Final Jeopardy - David Ferrucci
- Schools kill creativity - Ken Robinson
- Brain research and mental illness - Jill Bolte Taylor
- Sixth sense technology - Pranav Mistry
- How to live before you die - Steve Jobs
- Underwater astonishments - David Gallo
- How great leaders inspire action - Simon Sinek
- Mathemagic - Arthur Benjamin
- The power of vulnerability - Brene Brown
- Nurturing creativity - Elizabeth Gilbert
- Visualizing data/statistics - Hans Rosling
- The surprising science of motivation - Dan Pink
- Brain magic - Keith Barry
- Why are we happy? - Dan Gilbert
- Learning from a barefoot movement - Bunker Roy
- Wii remote hacks - Johnny Lee
- The danger of a single story - Chimamada Adichie
Potential Topic List for 2010 Seminars
Please contribute your ideas for topics of interest for the Lunchtime Seminar Series here.
Learning Track
- Problem based learning
- Measuring Skills & Competencies
- Constructive Alignment
- Goal-directed learning
- Learning 2.0
- Effective Formative & Summative Testing
- ...
Research Track
- Staff Research
- Tools for Researchers
- Writing Grant Proposals
- Reviewing Abstracts and Papers
- Statistical Methods for Research /li>
- ...
Technology Track
- Web Services & SOA
- Software Development Processes: RUP, OpenUp and Scrum
- Demystifying Industry Buzz Words: ERP, CRM and SCM
- UNICODE Sinhala & Tamil
- GRID/Cloud Computing and Virtualization
- How to do a Mashup
- Statistical names for Computational Techniques!
- Android Development
- ...
Management Track
- Fostering Creativity & Innovation
- Personality Type Testing
- Emotional Intelligence
- Effective Leadership
- Project Management
- Costing and Budgeting
- ICT Projects in Sri Lanka
- Work-Life Balance
- ...
Special (5th Friday) Topics
- Marriage & kids
- Culture
- ...
Old Seminars
September 21, 2006 Study and research activities at Vrije Universiteit
November 02, 2006
Multiple Recurring Instruction Set Computing / Implied Instruction Set Computing
May 10, 2007 Seminar by Dr. Chris Town Dr. Chris Town from Cmbridge Ontology Ltd.
