The University of New South Wales
Minutes of Meeting
Minutes of the meeting (CSE Teaching Committee 15/7)
of the Computer Science and Engineering Teaching Committee
held at 12:30pm on Friday, 16 October 2015,
in Room 103 (HoS Meeting Room), Computer Science Building.
Enquiries concerning these minutes should be directed to John Shepherd, extension +61293856494, jas@cse.unsw.edu.au.
John Shepherd
Committee Chair
| Present: | John Shepherd (chair), Andrew Bennett, Alan Blair, Eric Martin, Helen Paik, Andrew Taylor, Edwin Bonilla, Annie Guo, Oliver Tan |
| Apologies: | None |
| Absent: | Maurice Pagnucco, Richard Buckland, Fethi Rabhi |
| Present / Quorum: 5 / 7 (quorum not reached) |
Apologies and Welcome
Meeting commenced at 12:35pm.
No apologies received.
Minutes of Previous Meeting
CSE Teaching Committee 15/6 (25 Sep 2015)
Nobody noted any problems with the minutes of the previous meeting.
Reports from Committees outside CSE
John Shepherd noted that the Faculty Undergraduate Thesis Working Party had developed a new set of marking guidelines for 4th-year theses. There is some flexibility for what Schools can do, but some changes will be required within CSE to conform. Helen Paik will work with the Student Office to implement the changes for students commencing in 16s1.
New Course Proposal: Cyber Security
Richard Buckland was not able to attend the meeting to present the course proposals. Deferred until early 2016.
New Course: COMP9418 Advanced Topics in Statistical Machine Learning
Edwin Bonilla spoke to the proposal. There was some discussion on how it fitted into CSE's suite of offerings. It was noted that this course obviates the need for the current Nerual Networks course, and this should be removed from the list of CSE offerings. The outcome was general approval to go ahead with the course. It is intended to offer this course first in 16s2, if we have sufficient manpower to mount all of our other courses.
Meeting closed at 1:15pm