Posts by Graham Kendall
Blackberry 10 App Challenge Malaysia
May 9, 2013
If you fancy yourself as a smart phone programmer, you might be interested in the Blackberry 10 App Challenge Malaysia. The closing date to register a team is the end of May, and cash prizes are available. If you do decide to enter, please make sure that you pay special attention to the rules, especially …
Research Priorities Workshop: Overwhelming Questions
May 8, 2013
This post is authored by Dr Sean Matthews, Head of School or the School of Modern Languages and Culture. It is in response to the two research prioritiy workshops that we have recently held (see here and here). Overwhelming Questions: UNMC Research Priorities Workshop, April 30 2013 Our UNMC Research Priorities Workshop brought into focus …
Engineering Research Brochure
May 7, 2013
Engineering has recently launched a new research brochure. It can be downloaded from here. I have also placed a version on this blog site for archival purposes, available from here (note, this has been optimized as the original was too large to upload onto the blog site – this has reduced the resoltion of the images …
GE13: Malaysia General Election (2)
Just to add to the post we made last week, I thought I would just disseminate a couple more blog posts, for thouse that are interested. General Election 13 in Malaysia: The view from UNMC, posted by Cultures, Languages and Area Studies GE13: The view from the ground, posted by China Policy Institute Blog
Using Google Scholar
May 6, 2013
If you want to know more about Google Scholar, this video is not a bad place to start.
GE13: Malaysia General Election
May 3, 2013
On the eve (work day wise) of the Malaysia General Election, I thought it would be interesting and informative to take a look at some of the coverage this has received across the University. Watching the Watchdog: Dr Tessa J. Houghton and Professor Zaharom Nain from the Centre for the Study of Communications and Culture …
Marie Curie Individual Fellowships: A Great EU Opportunity
May 2, 2013
We recently posted about the final call for the EU Marie Curie Fellowships. These provide significant funding opportunities and the headline data about the call is as follows: Competitive salary up to €87,500 per annum (dependent on experience) Simple to run – no timesheets, flat rate funding Dedicated support from application to award via RGS …
Research Priorities Workshop – 2
May 1, 2013
As part of the process of reviewing the research priorities across the University (not just at UNMC), we are holding two workshops (they are the same format, but we are holding two to accommodate all the people that wanted to attend). The first was last week (24th April 2013). Ten people attended, with a number …
Patent Law: Ten Things to Know When Applying for a Patent
April 30, 2013
Computing and the Law is a very nice series of podcasts from the IEEE Computer Society, which looks at various legal issues. Specifically, the podcasts are delivered by Computer, the flagship publication of the IEEE Computer Society. The podcasts are USA centric and tend to (not surprisingly) focus on computing, but I think they are broad …
Citing and Plagiarism
April 29, 2013
This video might be applicable to some of our postgraduate students, as well as to our undergraduates. It’s good to see that students are talking about this area of their work. With thanks to Victoria and Florence.
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