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Tasks
| A1 | P | Send Australia visa application to Stars Travel {{Tasks:1031}} {{Schedule:9:00-9:30}} (2004.05.08) |
| A2 | C | Schedule an appointment with the AU embassy. Oh, good, no personal appearance required. {{Tasks:904}} {{Schedule:19:30-20:00}} (2004.04.22) |
| A3 | C | Schedule an appointment with the NZ embassy {{Tasks:905}} {{Schedule:10:30-11:00}} (2004.04.22) |
| B1 | C | Photocopy Equitable PCI January {{Tasks:1001}} (2004.05.07) |
| B2 | C | Get salt and vinegar potato chips from Australia {{Tasks:994}} (2004.05.18) |
| A4 | X | Prepare detailed itinerary for Mom {{Tasks:731}} (2004.04.10) |
| A5 | X | File for a leave {{Tasks:863}} (2004.04.14) |
| A6 | X | Pick up approved leave of absence {{Tasks:964}} (2004.04.26) |
| A7 | X | Finish papers for Australia thing {{Tasks:968}} (2004.04.27) |
| A8 | X | Finish NZ visa form {{Tasks:975}} (2004.04.27) |
| B3 | X | Come up with an itinerary from TripToAuAndNz {{Tasks:672}} (2004.03.14) |
| B4 | X | Encode all the financial information {{Tasks:999}} (2004.04.29) |
Tentative itinerary
| May 17 | Mon | - |
| May 18 | Tue | - |
| May 19 | Wed | Sydney: University of New South Wales |
| May 20 | Thu | Sydney: University of Sydney |
| May 21 | Fri | - |
| May 22 | Sat | - |
| May 23 | Sun | Melbourne: Monash University |
| May 24 | Mon | Melbourne: University of Melbourne |
| May 25 | Tue | Melbourne: RMIT |
| May 26 | Wed | - |
| May 27 | Thu | - |
| May 28 | Fri | Brisbane: Bond University |
Schools
Australia
University of Melbourne
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au- T. Bell Indexing techniques for personal information management - A. Moffat.
- O. de Kretser, Locality-based information retrieval - A. Moffat.
- Text, image, and index compression
- Text indexing methods, index construction
- Information retrieval and information filtering
- File structures
- Sorting and searching algorithms, adaptive sorting.
Important contact: Alistair Moffat
Homepage Finding and Topic Distillation using a Common Retrieval Strategy", "Personal information management in the digital age", Bell, Moffat, Proc. 22nd Australasian Computer Science Conference, Auckland, January 1999. Abstract. "Information Filtering Techniques under the Vector Space Model",
Monash University
http://www.csse.monash.edu.auArtificial intelligence, computing education, audiovisual information processing, reasoning under uncertainty
RMIT
http://www.cs.rmit.edu.au Document management, artificial intelligence, human-computer communicationInformation retrieval Text databases Search engines http://www.seg.rmit.edu.au/projects.html
La Trobe University
http://www.latrobe.edu.au/cs/Flinders University
http://www.cs.flinders.edu.au graphical interfaces, hypermedia, artificial intelligenceBond University
http://www.bond.edu.auInformation systems: Topic maps http://topicmaps.bond.edu.au/
University of Technology, Sydney
Information sharing in computer workspaces
The computer-based workspace provides easy access to key documents and databases, and various versatile means of discussion between users. Importantly, it can be readily customised. (more...)
University of Sydney
http://www.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejdavis/kmrg/home.htmhttp://www.it.usyd.edu.au/research/research_hb.html#lkm
intelligent, personalised teaching system, with particular concern for support of learner reflection and focused in two domains, the teaching aspects of computer science that are core to building internet technology and in teaching medicine, especially those aspects which will be well supported by a smart internet. # Knowledge sharing systems # Spatio-Temporal Data Mining (algorithms and applications) Content management systems on the world wide web Open source software (OSS) development: Models of project performance
UNSW
- Information Retrieval/Filtering
- Knowledge Representation
New Zealand
Canterbury
http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/research/RG/HCI/:/Projects/
- Tim Bell and the Computer Science Unplugged project.
- Intelligent computer tutoring
- Information retrieval: webView, Cone Trees, Scientist's Workbook, Interactive Visualization of Web Navigation, Markup of PDF files
- Digital lectures
Auckland
- XML-based information management
- Mapping of information structures
- Gill Dobbie, structured and semistructured data. More specifically, she is interested in how data can best be organized and managed, how the semantics of the data can be retained and expressed, and how querying can be carried out efficiently.
- John Hamer: Computer science education
- Lewis Hitchner: Educational methods for first year computer science
- Andrew James Luxton-Reilly: csed, collab learning techniques
Notes
4. Preparation
Get a YHA card
Get sheets
Brisbane first
Skytrans shuttle bus between transit center and airport (tel 3236 1000), fare 6.50
Getting around: Off-peak saver card, $4 or buses at $1.40 a trip
- Brisbane Visitors Accomodation Service, 3rd level of transit center (tel 32362020), 7-6pm weekdays and 8-5 weekends)
- Internet: Central City Library, $4 per hour
- Second-hand bookshop: Archives Fine Books (40-42 Charlotte Street)
- Second-hand bookshop: Emma (82A Vulture St., West End)
- Crafts Village at South Bank (Friday evenings, Saturday and Sunday until 5 pm)
- Eagle St. Pier, Sunday morning handicraft market
Bus to Sydney. 17 hours. ! 69 to 75. Try Premier Pioneer Motor Services
Sydney
- Around Sydney: Get a Green Travel Pass $28 for the week
- Internet: Travellers Contact Point (7th floor, 428 George St.), Backpackers World (212 Victoria St., Kings Cross). 175 Liverpool St. opposite Hyde Park (24h).
- Dymocks: 424-426 George St.
- Gould's, 33 Kng St., Newtown (second-hand)
- Powerhouse Museum, behind the Sydney Exhibition Center, 500 Harris St., Ultimo 10 am - 5 pm, $8
- Hostel: ~ 20/25.
Bus to Melbourne: 12-13 hour, Firefly Express (9211 1644) 45-50
Ask if I can get a discounted train ticked, 10.5 hours, $93 economy
Melbourne
- From airport: $9 Skybus, Bay 30 Spencer St. Coach Terminal to Melbourne Transit Center, every half-hour between 6 am and 10.30 pm
- Weekly tram ticket, zone 1: $18.60 (get All Day tickets instead if 4 days or less)
- Angus & Robertson Bookworld, 07 Elizabeth St.
- Collins Booksellers, 115 Elizabeth St.
- Dymocks, Bourke and Swanston Sts.
- State Library (Swanston and Russell Sts., near Latrobe St.)
- Tram tour, Zone 1 $4.30 per day
- Scienceworks Museum, 2 Booker St., Spotswood (15 minutes walk from the train station)
- City Center: Exford Hotel Backpacers' (9663 2697) $11
Get a YHA card Get sheets
Brisbane first
Skytrans shuttle bus between transit center and airport (tel 3236 1000), fare 6.50 Getting around: Off-peak saver card, $4 or buses at $1.40 a trip
- Brisbane Visitors Accomodation Service, 3rd level of transit center (tel 32362020), 7-6pm weekdays and 8-5 weekends)
- Internet: Central City Library, $4 per hour
- Second-hand bookshop: Archives Fine Books (40-42 Charlotte Street)
- Second-hand bookshop: Emma (82A Vulture St., West End)
- Crafts Village at South Bank (Friday evenings, Saturday and Sunday until 5 pm)
- Eagle St. Pier, Sunday morning handicraft market
Bus to Sydney. 17 hours. ! 69 to 75. Try Premier Pioneer Motor Services
Sydney
- Around Sydney: Get a Green Travel Pass $28 for the week
- Internet: Travellers Contact Point (7th floor, 428 George St.), Backpackers World (212 Victoria St., Kings Cross). 175 Liverpool St. opposite Hyde Park (24h).
- Dymocks: 424-426 George St.
- Gould's, 33 Kng St., Newtown (second-hand)
- Powerhouse Museum, behind the Sydney Exhibition Center, 500 Harris St., Ultimo 10 am - 5 pm, $8
- Hostel: ~ 20/25.
Bus to Melbourne: 12-13 hour, Firefly Express (9211 1644) 45-50 Ask if I can get a discounted train ticked, 10.5 hours, $93 economy
Melbourne
- From airport: $9 Skybus, Bay 30 Spencer St. Coach Terminal to Melbourne Transit Center, every half-hour between 6 am and 10.30 pm
- Weekly tram ticket, zone 1: $18.60 (get All Day tickets instead if 4 days or less)
- Angus & Robertson Bookworld, 07 Elizabeth St.
- Collins Booksellers, 115 Elizabeth St.
- Dymocks, Bourke and Swanston Sts.
- State Library (Swanston and Russell Sts., near Latrobe St.)
- Tram tour, Zone 1 $4.30 per day
- Scienceworks Museum, 2 Booker St., Spotswood (15 minutes walk from the train station)
- City Center: Exford Hotel Backpacers' (9663 2697) $11
3. Free NZ visa
On the plus side, our country has a bilateral fee waiver agreement
with NZ for visitor's visas not exceeding 59 days. That's good.
On the plus side, our country has a bilateral fee waiver agreement with NZ for visitor's visas not exceeding 59 days. That's good.
2. NZ
How can I make an appointment?
Tuesday afternoon, 10:00 a.m.?
Hey, no one's picking up at the NZ embassy.
Lodging: 9:00 - 12:30, no appointment
Follow-up, call the visa officer after 1:30
How can I make an appointment? Tuesday afternoon, 10:00 a.m.? Hey, no one's picking up at the NZ embassy. Lodging: 9:00 - 12:30, no appointment Follow-up, call the visa officer after 1:30
1. Scheduling an appointment with the AU embassy
I need to call 1909 362 2779 using an NDD-capable line to set an
appointment. I guess that means I should do this with Mom tonight.
I need to call 1909 362 2779 using an NDD-capable line to set an appointment. I guess that means I should do this with Mom tonight.
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