Faculty of Information Technology | Monash University

Thanks to the team at Mojo - Monash Journalism's online magazine for the story about our Future Control Room.

Monash University and Honeywell Building Solutions have signed a collaboration agreement today to deliver one of the world’s first ‘cognitive office buildings’ bringing together next-generation technology and research to significantly change the way buildings are managed. Check out how our IT students are driving this project forward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TH_YJUJ2mN0

#vcestudents Registrations close soon for our IT Inside Monash Seminar on May 17. Come along to speak with current students studying with Monash IT and gain insight on our study areas, internship options and double degrees. Make sure you register at https://www.monash.edu/inside-monash

Seminar: When the AI god fails Speaker: Associate Professor Sebastian Pokutta, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Insitute of Technology Due to the strong impact that ML and AI had across a variety of domains there is a general belief that "AI can solve it". This belief leads to an unchallenged confidence in the decisions of a technology that often lacks transparency, fairness, and explainability and at the same time exhibits bias and other weaknesses. In this overview I will talk about recent impact of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning, look at some high profile failures, ethical and societal challenges, as well as vulnerabilities of ML techniques.

Our acclaimed Industry Based Learning (IBL) program turned 30 last week, and what a wonderful way to celebrate. Details here: https://www.monash.edu/it/about-us/news-and-events/latest/articles/2018/milestone-for-the-monash-faculty-of-it-ibl-program