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New statistics laboratory for postgraduate students
Located in the Becton Dickinson building, the laboratory is the most advanced at Macquarie University. It boasts the hardware and software required to quarantine the teaching network from the main University network allowing students to experiment freely without fear of crashing other systems in the University. “This isn’t available anywhere else because largely computer administrators like to have some control over an environment so it doesn’t fall down on everybody,” says Professor of Statistics, Malcolm Hudson. “In our case this is a sort of sandbox where the students can build castles and develop their own software ideas.” Catering for around 26 users simultaneously, the laboratory is used for practical sessions as well as individual use. Unlike the other statistics laboratory, which is totally devoted to the Windows environment, the new lab has both Windows and Linux available. Macquarie’s statistics graduates will meet a growing international demand for professionals who have been trained on the Linux operating system and networking. While the laboratory is primarily used to meet the needs of postgraduate coursework students, it is also used by a few research students as well as third year undergraduates. “The new facility has been very positively received by students,” says Hudson. “There are quite a number of PhD students based in the lab and this helps them work together and keep in touch with other students doing similar sorts of programs.” Currently there are around 200 students in the Information Systems and Technology specialisation. “We think it is one of the better training programs for information systems,” says Hudson. “The program looks at information systems tools, particularly information management, web database engineering and decision support systems for data mining.” Students become familiar with a variety of programming languages and databases to implement e-commerce websites and experience the power of the available technology. For further information on the Information Systems and Technology specialisation of the Master of Commerce and Master of International Business program visit the website: www.stat.mq.edu.au/postgrad/pos_mcom.htm December 2004 More Business and Law stories here |
Students specialising in Information Systems and Technology during their Master of Commerce and Master of International Business program are reaping the benefits of the new Statistics Information Systems Laboratory.Subscribe
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Important Dates
Coursework
16 Dec 2005
FINAL closing date for external distance applications for first half year 2006
13 Jan 2006
FINAL closing date for internal/on-campus applications for first half year 2006
Research
8 Dec 2005
Closing date for further applications to research programs for first half year 2006
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