UniMelb CSSE Honours/PGDip Local Page

This website contains information mainly for students currently enrolled in Computer Science Honours (through the BCS or BSc) or in the PGDip, in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Melbourne. It should also be useful for staff involved in Honours teaching (especially project supervisors), and for prospective students, who can get an inside view of how the programs actually work.

2010 Applications

  • Honours Induction Monday 22 Feb, 2010 Please come along to the following Honours Induction, to be held at the following time/location: 11am-12noon, Monday 22 February, Room 3.04, ICT Building, 11 Barry Street Carlton (Room 3.04 is the curved room immediately outside the lifts on level 3 of the ICT building). At 12noon, Alistair Moffat, our Head of Department will welcome you in the Tea Room on Level 4 of the ICT building.
  • Read these slides from an Honours Information Session, available here, which have information about Honours in 2010.
  • For students wanting to commence Honours in Semester 1, 2010, please contact the Honours Coordinator, Adrian Pearce (Email: first name followed by "rp" @unimelb.edu.au) with enquiries.

    News

    Honours Final Presentations for 2009

    2:15pm Monday, 19 October 2009, Theatre 1, ICT Building (Ground Floor)
    Time Speaker Topic Supervisor(s)
    2:15-2:35pm Marco Lui Classifying Linux forum participants Tim Baldwin
    2:35-2:55pm Nick Downing Improved Consensus Clustering via Linear Optimization Tony Wirth & Peter Stuckey
    2:55-3:15pm Katsuya Noguchi Searching the nearby facility with the minimum detour on road networks Jie Shao & Rui Zhang
    3:15-3:35pm Kim Ramchen Encrypted permutations and electronic voting Vanessa Teague & Lee Naish
    3:35-3:55pm Ben Mellor Software Transactional Memory for Real World Programs Zoltan Somogyi
    3:55-4:15pm Qu Hao Visual event analysis and anomaly detection Liang Wang & Chris Leckie
    4:15-4:35pm Simon Whitehead Generating emotional responses in a conversational agent Lawrence Cavedon
    4:35-4:55pm Alex Hindle Web video search results clustering using multi-modality features Jie Shao & Rui Zhang

    Research Projects Available 2010

  • A list of Research Projects available is available here.

    Subjects available in 2009

  • A preliminary list of Subjects available in 2009 is available here.
  • Note that you are permitted to take up to one 300 level CSSE subject in addition. One 600 level subject within CSSE and/or a subjects outside the Department may be taken with the permission of the Honours Coordinator.

    Important Dates for 2009

    February / March, 2009
    		 23 Feb
    		 Induction Session (10:00-16:00)
    02 Mar
    		 Start of semester 1 classes
    March, 2009
    		 12-13 Mar
    		 Deadline for finalisation of semester 1 subject choices
    April, 2009
    		 9 Apr
    		 Submit research proposal
    27 Apr
    		 Present research proposal
    May, 2009
    29 May
    		 End of semester 1 classes
    June, 2009

    July, 2009
    		 27 Jul
    		 Start of semester 2 classes
    31 Jul
    		 Submit progress report
    August, 2009

    September, 2009

    October, 2009
    		 19-20 Oct
    		 Give final presentation
    30 Oct
    		 Submit thesis
    End of semester 2 classes
    November, 2009

    December, 2009

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