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Just received an email from the ICT guys at Sydney Uni – all students are getting a new email service! According to ICT Switch, the email service is going to be the new hosted services from Microsoft, called Outlook Live. It means that there’s finally a decent user interface to the university email, plus seamless [...]

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This Friday, there’ll be a public lecture discussing the Australian Filtering Scheme. It’s been a hot topic for a while now, and it’s gathering momentum. The Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) TV program Q&A had recently featured this particular issue last Thursday 26 Mar 09 in Melbourne. The lecture will be delivered by Associate Professor Bjorn [...]

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Announcement 5 new sets of SPOT quizzes are available. You can get to them through your USYD eLearning site. Quiz 1 Runs in the first hour of Week 5′s lab, 50 minutes long. 10 multiple choice from Excel, 10 multiple choice from Matlab Closed book – no internet / Excel / Matlab Worth 10% of [...]

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Course material In Lab 2 we finally got to play around with MATLAB, a calculator on steroids and a particularly useful engineering tool. We started it up, and wrote some programs both by typing straight into the ">>" prompt, and by creating scripts called m-files and then running that script by typing the name of [...]

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Administrative matters This is just a recap of our first lab this Wednesday. To start things off, I’d like to make sure that the administrative matters are dealt with before next lab. We skipped over these during the lab so that we can get as far into the actual course content as possible. By now, [...]

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