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Symposium:
The 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference
The International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data

School:
School of Science and Technology

Details:
Sponsored by the Croucher Foundation, the School of Science and Technology hosted two conferences to explore specialized area that are gaining in importance in the information age.

The first of these was the 15th Asia Information Retrieval Societies Conference, supported by the Association for Computing Machinery’s Special Interest Group on Information Retrieval, held on 7–9 November.  Tutorials and paper presentations relating to applications, systems, technologies and theories of information retrieval were delivered by researchers and developers based in different parts of Asia, with a keynote speech on event modelling and mining by Prof. Li Qing from the Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

The second conference, the International Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Big Data, was held on 4–5 December.  It gathered researchers, educators and computer engineers to look at different applications of AI and big data, particularly in educational settings, through keynote presentations and tutorial sessions.  For example, Prof. Dragan Gašević from the Monash University expressed his views on the future of learning analytics, while Prof. Hwang Gwo-jen from the National Taiwan University of Science and Technology examined questions surrounding AI applications and research issues of AI in education.

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