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Gibbons Lectures to focus on Health IT
Gibbons Lectures to focus on Health IT
The Institute of IT Professionals (IITP) is pleased to announce the annual University of Auckland Computer Science Gibbons Memorial Lecture Series will kick off in Auckland on May 5. This year, the focus is on health-related IT projects.
The
applications discussed range from modelling of human
physiology, understanding our place in the genome, the
evolution of CT scanning and using IT to help improve
management of chronic illness.
Each event is free to
attend and the series runs until May 26. All the lectures
will be streamed live.
The series is named for Peter
Gibbons, who died in 2008. Dr Gibbons research focused on
the boundary between Mathematics and Computer Science.
Gibbons was involved with the University of Auckland's
Department of Computer Science from its inception in 1980
through to his retirement in 2004.
Past Gibbons
Lectures have covered issues ranging from human-computer
interaction through to security and privacy in the
information age, the legacy of Alan Turing and the
application of computer
power.
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