Matthew Watt

This subject introduces cybersecurity analytics techniques to students. Students solve cybersecurity problems using data analytics. Students apply their technical capabilities in data analytics, and develop communication skills and awareness of ethical and legal constraints. Students also have the opportunity to investigate socio-cultural, policy and legislative cybersecurity decision-making.

This subject uses data analytics, data mining and knowledge discovery methods and their application to practical problems. It brings together the state-of-the-art research and practical techniques in data analytics, providing students with the necessary knowledge and capacity to initiate and conduct data mining research and development projects, and professionally communicate with analytics experts. Case studies allow engagement with issues of ethics, privacy and socio-cultural limitations of… Show more

This subject uses data analytics, data mining and knowledge discovery methods and their application to practical problems. It brings together the state-of-the-art research and practical techniques in data analytics, providing students with the necessary knowledge and capacity to initiate and conduct data mining research and development projects, and professionally communicate with analytics experts. Case studies allow engagement with issues of ethics, privacy and socio-cultural limitations of AI solutions. Show less

The subject focuses on the basics of python programming with practical application to data processing and analysis. Students learn basic programming concepts, simple visualisation, how to write custom programs using iPython notebooks and perform exploratory data analysis. Additionally, this subject introduces the usage of the Numpy package to pre-process data, and machine learning techniques are introduced to facilitate further exploration of the Python language capabilities.

R is a very popular high-level programming language for doing data analytics, statistics and interactive visualisation. It is an interpreted, object-oriented and interactive scripting language. R’s high-level built-in data structures make it suitable for rapid application development. R's functional programming features make it a very expressive language. It is widely used for statistics, scientific and numeric computing, education, software development, and interactive visualisation… Show more

R is a very popular high-level programming language for doing data analytics, statistics and interactive visualisation. It is an interpreted, object-oriented and interactive scripting language. R’s high-level built-in data structures make it suitable for rapid application development. R's functional programming features make it a very expressive language. It is widely used for statistics, scientific and numeric computing, education, software development, and interactive visualisation applications. This subject covers the basics of using R, including programming constructs, packages and object-oriented programming. Useful R analysis procedures for data analytics are also introduced. Show less

This subject introduces students to basic database design and implementation concepts, database design techniques, and using a relational design via an entity relationship diagram, including how to interpret an entity relationship diagram. Students learn how to access a database via structured query language (SQL) to retrieve data from the database. The code required to implement a database is also covered.

Incredible work with an outstanding commitment to our customer.

Developed an hackathon entry with my daughters, and won third place in ACS's #FlattenTheCurveHack COVID-19 education challenge. Below is the description of the entry as written by my daughters (the pitchers).

1.5 billion students have to remotely learn due to COVID-19. About 80% of them have online classes. Many students are struggling to complete tasks, because apps have many different buttons, confusing them. As Well as this a major conference site has had safety issues. Children were… Show more

Developed an hackathon entry with my daughters, and won third place in ACS's #FlattenTheCurveHack COVID-19 education challenge. Below is the description of the entry as written by my daughters (the pitchers).

1.5 billion students have to remotely learn due to COVID-19. About 80% of them have online classes. Many students are struggling to complete tasks, because apps have many different buttons, confusing them. As Well as this a major conference site has had safety issues. Children were unable do online video classes, because anyone could join, dismissing privacy. Whilst locked inside children's social interactions, regularly encounter at school have been overlooked.

On our portal, Everyone is required to log in and join their class.Teachers can supervise who joins and can decline access. Our portal clearly shows student what they have to do and how they can. Our portal includes games that can be played with friends reenacting children's social interactions from school. Our portal also includes a facetime feature for everyone to use it converts the children's faces into AR, so other student can see them but it's not actually them.

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For exceptional service and willingness to go above and beyond

This unit introduces the fundamental computational paradigms of robotic systems (sense-reason-act) in the context of a hands-on, studio based learning environment using the Nao robots. Students will learn and practice event-driven programming methods within Choreographe, the visual programming environment for the Nao robot. Problems such as animating movement, responding to stimuli, and creating meaningful behaviours in constrained environmental contexts will form the basis of practical… Show more

This unit introduces the fundamental computational paradigms of robotic systems (sense-reason-act) in the context of a hands-on, studio based learning environment using the Nao robots. Students will learn and practice event-driven programming methods within Choreographe, the visual programming environment for the Nao robot. Problems such as animating movement, responding to stimuli, and creating meaningful behaviours in constrained environmental contexts will form the basis of practical investigations of the robots capabilities and limitations, as well as the design and development of programmatic solutions. Fundamental models of embodied and autonomous agents will be introduced through practical application of computing theory. Show less

This unit introduces the basic concepts involved in the operation of microcontrollers and microcontroller-based systems. Some examples of microcontrollers are listed. One specific microcontroller is introduced and studied in detail in respect to both hardware system design and software programming aspects. Basic inputs and outputs, serial communications, interrupts, timers/counters and other peripherals as well as their programming are discussed.  Also, covered are some simple applications.

Winner of the best entry showcasing the integration of AIHW data with other data sources. Showing novel technical data mashups, and showcasing creative integrated data displays. Answering the question: How can we integrate AIHW and other data sources in interesting ways?

This unit introduces the fundamentals behind Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the different AI applications. It examines the various AI methods including: "A*" and other path finding systems, reactive and dynamic, goal based, fuzzy logic, rule-base, probability, behaviour and finite state machine techniques.  It then looks at the practical application of AI.

For exceptional service and willingness to go above and beyond

Australian winner of the first ever internal ServiceNow Hackathon.

Students entering the workforce as engineers will from time to time be expected to use, enhance or even develop software to complete their daily tasks solving engineering problems. This unit introduces students to the process of taking an engineering problem, identifying its components, and expressing a solution in computational terms. MATLAB and Excel are used to define, develop, analyse and solve engineering problems. Pseudo code and the C programming language is used to illustrate… Show more

Students entering the workforce as engineers will from time to time be expected to use, enhance or even develop software to complete their daily tasks solving engineering problems. This unit introduces students to the process of taking an engineering problem, identifying its components, and expressing a solution in computational terms. MATLAB and Excel are used to define, develop, analyse and solve engineering problems. Pseudo code and the C programming language is used to illustrate programming constructs, I/O basics, data types and storage, operators, control flow, repetition, functional decomposition, modularity and reuse.

On successful completion of this unit, students will have the ability to use a standard approach to problem definition, problem solving and program development, as well as understand the structure theorem and be aware of its consequences for algorithm design.

Students will develop the knowledge to enable them to analyse engineering problems, select the software tool or develop a software solution, process a solution and report results. Show less