New Zealand Computer Science Research Students Conference 2007

During the Easter mid-trimester break seven computer science post-graduate students (Christian Seifert, Ben Palmer, Yifan Zhang, David Friggens, Jennifer Ferreira, and Craig Anslow) presented their research at the 5th New Zealand Computer Science Research Student Conference (NZCSRSC). The conference was held on the marae at University of Waikato in Hamilton, and was attended by post-graduate computer science students from all over New Zealand.

The central goal of the conference was to foster a lasting community between computer science research students in New Zealand. The conference involved sessions on a range of relevant computer science topics, interesting tutorials, invited talks, and company presentations. Peter Andreae and Stuart Marshall presented tutorials.

The highlights of the conference included invited talks by Craig Nevill-Manning (PhD Waikato) from Google, Ian Foster (Father of Grid Computing) from the Argonne National Laboratory and University of Chicago, Tyrone McAuley (VUW CS graduate) from Sidhe Interactive, and Nigel Scott from Park Road Post.

For more information about the conference, visit the website: http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/nzcsrsc2007/