School News

25th Annual Maths Contest for Year 10 Students
The School of Information Technology recently hosted the 24th Annual Maths Contest which tested the mathematical skills of 185 Year 10 students from 23 secondary schools across Geelong and Western Victoria.

School Lecturer Awarded
Lecturer, Mr Jason Wells has been awarded a 2013 Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning.

LEAP - Demystifying the links at Deakin
Lecturer, Sophie McKenzie, plays host to secondary students as they LEAP into Engineering and IT.

New project for School of IT Professor
Professor Yang Xiang will lead a new project to catalogue Australian Web Security threats.

Global Engineering Week
Dr Gang Li visited Chitkara University in North India, where he taught a one-week intensive short course during the university's Global Engineering Week.

'Peek In' at Deakin
Students visit Deakin's Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus to 'peek in' on what university is all about.

Adventure Challenge 2013
'Amazing Race' style activities for visiting students from Suzan Cory High School.

The Robot Roadshow
Follow the adventures of our robots as they join the School Outreach Program.

iPad app revolutionising therapy for autistic children
App enables parents to provide early intervention therapy for their children.

Best Paper Award
The School of Information Technology is proud to announce Yongli Ren, Dr Gang Li and Professor Wanlei Zhou have been awarded 'Best Paper' at the 2012 IEEE/ACM International Conference on Advances in Social Networks Analysis and Mining (ASONAM 2012) for their submission entitled 'Learning Rating Patterns for Top-N Recommendations'.

Collaboration further strengthens ties with China
A new collaborative partnership between Deakin University and Central China Normal University will help both teachers and students to better realise the educational potential of cutting-edge technologies.

Mobile and Apps - NEW in 2013
Bachelor of Information Technology (Mobile and Apps Development) - designed to give you the knowledge needed to help you thrive in this fast-growing and exciting field.

Deakin Nao!
The Games and Interactive Virtual Environments (GIVE) group has recently acquired four Nao humanoid robots (pronounced 'now') as part of its Future Technologies Initiative.

Go Girl Go for IT - 2012
Go Girl Go for IT 2012 was recently held at the Melbourne Burwood Campus in June.

The 2012 iAwards
Team Alloy wins the award of Merit at the 2012 VIC iAwards in the Tertiary Student Project category for their submission: a mobile app project called 'Alloy- A Social Meta Search Engine'.

ICCIS 2012 - Malaysia Congress
Professor Andrzej Goscinski attended the International Conference on Computer and Information Science (ICCIS 2012) held in Kuala Lumpur in June, 2012.

CISCO Academy in Top 10%
The School of Information Technology's Cisco Academy has been ranked in the top 10% in Australia.

The Cyber Challenge
Australia's first national Cyber Security competition '2012 Cyber Defence University Challenge', was held in April 2012.

New Research Centre for the School
The School welcomes PRaDA, the new Strategic Research Centre, headed by Prof Svetha Venkatesh.