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LEARNING AND TEACHING METHODS
The subject is delivered through a combination of lectures and tutorials. One feature of the subject is that the projects are designed to be relatively open-ended and broad enough that students have scope to get hands-on experience implementing the breadth of material covered in the subject, as well as building off the subject content in innovating their own methods/ researching related methods from the research literature and implementing them such methods themselves.
INDICATIVE KEY LEARNING RESOURCES
Students will have access to lecture slides, readings relating to the lecture materials (both from a textbook and conference/journal papers), tutorial worksheets with worked solutions for all numeric problems, and sample reports to use in writing the project reports. Students are permitted to do their programming in any language and any programming environment/OS, and may be given the option of working in a team (with suitably increased expectations on what they are required to do). In recent years, the projects have been hosted on Kaggle, supporting a live “scoreboard” for student systems, and giving the projects more of a real-world feel.
CAREERS / INDUSTRY LINKS
The knowledge technologies industry (encompassing machine learning, data science, natural language processing and information retrieval) has been growing rapidly over the past two decades, with key industry players including Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook and Twitter. Google has sponsored a prize for the highest-achieving student in the subject each in recent years, underlining its interest in the subject material. There have been guest lecturers in the subject from organisations including Palantir Technologies and NICTA.
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This subject contributes to the following:
Type Name Informal specialisation Science-credited subjects - new generation B-SCI and B-ENG. Informal specialisation Selective subjects for B-BMED Specialisation (formal) Software with Business - Breadth options
This subject is available as breadth in the following courses:
- Available through the Community Access Program
About the Community Access Program (CAP)
This subject is available through the Community Access Program (also called Single Subject Studies) which allows you to enrol in single subjects offered by the University of Melbourne, without the commitment required to complete a whole degree.
Please note Single Subject Studies via Community Access Program is not available to student visa holders or applicants
Entry requirements including prerequisites may apply. Please refer to the CAP applications page for further information.
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Subject coordinator approval required
- Available to Study Abroad and/or Study Exchange Students
This subject is available to students studying at the University from eligible overseas institutions on exchange and study abroad. Students are required to satisfy any listed requirements, such as pre- and co-requisites, for enrolment in the subject.
Last updated: 12 December 2024