SUITS Seminar

Thursday 15 May marks the day for yet another #!SUITS seminar. Just an overview, the Sydney University IT Society have been running these seminars ever since the society is formed. Recently, we have changed the format so that during the hour, we have two guest speakers.

Today, our first speaker is Meitar Mozcovitz, who is a passionate web developer. Yes, a REAL web developer who actually cares about users and other developers. That’s why he came and chatted to us about a good way to make documentation useful.

I’m trying to get hold of his presentation, and once I do, they’ll be put up onto the #!SUITS tutorials page.

The second speaker was Prof. Jon Patrick, from our very own School of IT at University of Sydney. His talk was about how natural language processing techniques can be used to solve headaches around inconsistent medical terminology used everywhere. As part of his research, an intelligent system with was created that could interpret thousands of notes and messages, even ones using funny medical symbols and terminology, and produce a formally structured report using standard terminology. Sounds good? Well it’s even more so since it’s pluggable to any existing system without major changes. Ah, the possibilities..