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Want to be a doctor but don't like dealing with people in general let alone their ailments and never got into biology in high school so you started getting into coding but still kind of want to help people? Same. Medical imaging is a branch of computer vision with a focus on improving the ability to read a scan when we can't improve the physical scanner any further. Gustavo works in this area in the Australian Institute of Machine Learning.

Links:
Gustavo's Researcher Profile: https://researchers.adelaide.edu.au/profile/gustavo.carneiro
Kaggle Competitions: https://www.kaggle.com/competitions

CS Club discord: https://discord.gg/rYgCTdh

Social laws of online gaming, a new unsettling type of currency, why are we still stereotyping people? It's all data today.

Resources:
Weapons of math destruction - Cathy O'Neill

CS Club Discord:
https://discord.gg/rYgCTdh

We've all had lecturers who read the slides word-for-word and don't engage with the class at all. How that can be changed so classes are more enjoyable for the masses, also, how the data that is automatically collected by cities can be used to improve the lives of its inhabitants.

Resources
Punished by Reward - Alfie Kohn
Australian Privacy Act
Nick's Researcher Profile

What do evolutionary art, geoscience, pipe network analysis, and renewable energy have in common? They all have problems that can be solved with computational search! A concept that students learn in class can be applied to large industrial scales. Find out how.

Links
Wave buoys
Evolutionary Art
Brad's Researcher Profile

The CS Club has a podcast! Why? Because we are a lazy people when it comes to reading large texts and all too introverted to go to more lectures than mandatory.

We have a new Instagram too. Find it here: https://www.instagram.com/compsci.adl/

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