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Engaging Indigenous people within Higher Ed

CQUniversity's Office of Indigenous Engagement recently hosted a visit from the Oodgeroo Unit of Queensland University of Technology (QUT), at Rockhampton Campus.

Professor Anita Lee Hong, Director of the Oodgeroo Unit, and Lone Pearce, Project Officer, met with Office of Indigenous Engagement staff to discuss employment issues and best practice models for engaging Indigenous people within the higher education sector, including governance matters.

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Lecturer interviewed about computer draughts breakthrough 

Published on 26 July, 2007 

CQU lecturer Dr Andrew Chiou has been interviewed for an article in 'Cosmos Magazine' about a milestone for artificial intelligence.

Computer scientists have created the first checkers-playing computer program that cannot be beaten.

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Dr Chiou is quoted as saying:

"Chinook achieved its goals employing a combination of both cutting-edge hardware and software. A [previous] 'mediocre' program could only have accomplished the same result given huge futuristic computing resources.

"The bottom line is that Chinook solved it using what is currently available," Dr Chiou is quoted as saying.

COSMOS is the biggest-selling Australian science magazine. You can read more at:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1483