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Issue: May 2019

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'Father of fuzzing' says hackers shouldn’t get a free ride

An industry hero and pioneer in the cyber security and software testing fields visited UQ last week to deliver a special workshop, shining a light on the latest cyber security practices and tools. RCC and UQ Cyber Security hosted the visit.

American Professor Barton Miller (pictured) is widely known as the ‘father’ of fuzzing, a technique used by software security testers, and almost all penetration testers and security experts to discover security errors in software.

UQ's Faculty of Engineering, Architecture and Information Technology conducted a Q&A with Prof. Miller. Read more

* The above has been republished with UQ EAIT's permission.
Mark Endrei

RCC HPC energy paper published


The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications has published an RCC-led paper. PhD student and RCC Systems Engineer Mark Endrei is the lead author of the paper about optimising HPC energy. Read more
Derek Benson

RCC’s Derek Benson joins CSIRO


CSIRO has hired RCC systems administrator Derek Benson as a scientific workflow specialist. His new job involves managing CSIRO's Galaxy server, implementing and developing scientific workflows, and assisting scientists to run workflows on CSIRO’s HPCs. Read more
HealthHack Brisbane

RCC sponsors HealthHack Brisbane 2019


RCC is proud to once again sponsor this year's HealthHack Brisbane hackathon, which will take place over the weekend of 20–22 September at ThoughtWorks in the CBD. Read more
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ResBaz Brisbane 2019


QUT and partners UQ, Griffith, USQ and QCIF are supporting this year’s Brisbane Research Bazaar, 9–11 July, at QUT’s Gardens Point Campus. ResBaz promotes the digital literacy emerging at the centre of modern research. Registration for the full three days is only $40. Read more
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Save the date: UQ Research Capabilities Showcase 2019


UQ's Research Capabilities Showcase, Friday, 20 September, is an all-day event designed to shine the spotlight on the innovative tech' and infrastructure powering research across UQ and beyond. RCC will be actively involved. Read more

Why STEM students should attend Winter School 2019


Ebony Watson attended last year’s Winter School in Mathematical and Computational Biology and was so inspired by the presentations, she decided to do a PhD at UQ on machine learning and bio-imaging. Read more
Prof. Peter Sloot

Prof. Peter Sloot's seminar video


The video recording of our April seminar with Prof. Peter Sloot about complex systems dynamics is on our YouTube channel. Prof. Sloot is director of the Complexity Institute in NTU, Singapore, and a research professor at the University of Amsterdam. Watch
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HASS Tinker training at UQ


At this UQ-based workshop on Wednesday, 12 June, gain an introduction to the digital humanities and social sciences and learn about the Tinker workbench, a platform of HASS digital tools, data sets and training support. The workshop will involve a webinar and in-person component. Read more
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eResearch Australasia 2019 —
call for abstracts open


The call for participation in this year's Brisbane-based eResearch Australasia conference is open. Most abstracts are due by 7 June. The theme of this year’s conference, 21–25 October, is ‘eResearch Diversity’. Read more

Latest news about UQ's Graduate Digital Research Fellowship

All the above articles can be read on RCC's website.
the inaugural UQ Graduate Digital Research Fellows
RCC's Marco Fahmi (back, third from left) with the inaugural UQ Graduate Digital Research Fellows, who recently graduated. Front L–R: Lujain Shafeeq, Katy McHugh (Digital Humanities Research Associate), Umme Salma, Sunny Kim and Robyn Gulliver. (Photo: Lujain Shafeeq.)

RCC Events in pictures

Dr Kevin Jorissen
Dr Kevin Jorissen, Amazon Web Services’ Research and Technical Computing Lead, gave a seminar to a full house at RCC on Wednesday, 15 May. Dr Jorissen discussed how researchers can benefit from the resources AWS offers them for computing, storage and data analytics. More information (Photo: Dr Nick Hamilton, RCC.)
UQ Hacky Hour
At UQ's Hacky Hour on Tuesday, 21 May, Nick (middle) and Sabrina (right) received help from RCC/QCIF's Dr Marlies Hankel (left) with running Python on a high-performance computer. (Photo: Dr Nick Hamilton, RCC.)
All RCC events

What's On

7 June: Tech Talk, online & various locations

12 June: Tinker training, UQ St Lucia

12–14 June: International Workshop on Science Gateways (IWSG) 2019, Slovenia

1–5 July: Winter School in Mathematical & Computational Biology, UQ St Lucia

9–11 July: ResBaz Brisbane 2019, QUT Gardens Point

27–28 August: HPC-AI Perth Conference, Perth
 9–11 September: OpenMPCon 2019, Auckland, NZ

20 September: UQ Research Capabilities Showcase, UQ St Lucia
 
20–22 September: HealthHack, Brisbane
 
21–25 October: eResearch Australasia 2019, Brisbane

17–20 November: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Brisbane
 
March–November: QFAB training 2019,

 
View videos from the RCC Seminar Series

Research Data Management at UQ

 

UQRDM 
 

Every Tuesday afternoon during UQ's Hacky Hour, the Library provides support for UQRDM users in an informal, casual setting.

If you want to know how to create project records, collaborate with other researchers or are interested in sharing data via UQRDM, pop in to see us at Cafe Nano on the St Lucia Campus every Tuesday, 3pm–4pm. (Note that Hacky Hour is cancelled if it's raining.)
 
For more formal training for teams or new HDR students, check  the Library’s training page for UQRDM sessions.

UQ Library: Ask us about UQRDM at Hacky Hour
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