News & Notices

Student account closure

All School of Computing and Information System student accounts (including Windows, MacOS and Unix accounts) will be disabled from Wednesday, December 3. Account data will remain on our servers and accounts can be enabled again when required.

Continuing students who require access over the 2008/2009 summer break will need to apply for access in writing by filling out the appropriate form at the School Help Desk. Out-of-hour access will only be granted to students with confirmed deferred and/or supplementary exams.

Please note there will be several distruptions to services over the summer period due to server and lab maintenance. Students who are granted access should check the School's News page as well as lab door signs for indications of service disruption times.

System Downtime Notice

Monthly backups and operating system updates will be carried out on a number of the School's systems in Hobart and Launceston on Sunday, December 7, at the following times:

- Hobart: 7:00am until 1:00pm (alacritas)
- Launceston: 7:00am until 1:00pm (lawson)

These activities will affect the listed Unix servers, and samba shares on lawson and alacritas (this includes the "M:" drive on Windows lab machines).

[HBT] Mobile Phone Application (Java) Developer Required

A researcher with the Menzies Research Institute requires the assistance of a Mobile Phone Application Programmer for a short term project.

Please refer to the Job Watch page for more information.

Human Interface Technology Unit Offered as Part of Creative Arts Summer School

The School of Computing and Information Systems and the newly formed Human Interface Technology (HIT) Lab Australia will be offering a summer school unit entitled "An Introduction to Virtual Reality and Advanced Media Technology" as part of the Tasmanian Creative Arts Summer School. The summer school is being held 14 - 23 January 2009.

Further Information

Job Watch

Visit our job watch page for details of potential jobs that would be suitable for Computing students and/or Computing graduates.

 

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