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Delivering one-to-one feedback in one-to-many teaching
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Today at 6:13 AM

This is an AI podcast generated from an original article and research done by humans.

In the early 2000s, the mere idea of online schools, hybrid universities and one teacher educating hundreds – even thousands – at a time was overwhelming. But the imagined future is now a lived reality, shifting the discussion from ‘What would you do?’ to ‘How do we manage?’.

But with today’s university units often enrolling thousands of learners, and classrooms becoming more globalised, teachers are hard-pressed for time and energy – meaning students are more likely to fall behind due to a lack of personal...


From Big Brother to friendly neighbour: Creating facial recognition the public can trust
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Today at 6:09 AM

This is an AI podcast generated from an original article and research done by humans.

The controversy surrounding facial recognition technology manifests at the intersection of power, privacy and identity. How do we foster public trust and shift away from the dystopian tropes of surveillance societies and Big Brother? Start from the ground up – redesigning the technology itself.

If you combine a lack of accountability, transparency and local autonomy, you’ll have a recipe for distrust and disdain.

But PhD candidate Sanjeev Nahulanthran from our Department of Data Science and Artificial Inte...


Meet Series2Vec: Navid’s new way to decode time series
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11/25/2025

This is an AI podcast generated from an original article and research done by humans.

From stock prices to weather patterns, time series data powers some of the most critical systems in our modern world. But unlike static data, its dynamic nature makes it tricky to process and interpret.

This is where Series2Vec comes in.

Developed by Navid Mouhammadi Foumani, a PhD student at Monash University’s Faculty of Information Technology, Series2Vec is a cutting-edge self-supervised learning method that tackles one of the biggest barriers to time series analysis — the need for...