Forever striving to tick things off my bucket list, September saw me give my first (and hopefully not my last!) TEDx talk. I am aiming to provide a very brief introduction to what 21st-century medical research “is all about”, and particularly the critical role that computer scientists, engineers and mathematicians have to play in treating […] Read more »
This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. By David Budden, University of Melbourne Germany may have won this year’s World Cup but Australia’s robot researchers have emerged victorious from a subtly different competition. The University of New South Wales’ rUNSWift robot team claimed the champion’s title at RoboCup 2014, thumping […] Read more »
My first published journal article, Language Individuation and Marker Words: Shakespeare and His Maxwell’s Demon, has been featured as a research highlight in the PLoS (Public Library of Science) blog. This serves as a reminder that machine learning (and computer science in general) can be applied to solve complex tasks in an incredibly wide range […] Read more »
Earlier today, I presented the publication Probabilistic Gradient Ascent with Applications to Bipedal Robot Locomotion at the Australasian Conference on Robotics and Automation (ACRA2013, the largest robotics conference in the southern hemisphere). This presentation can be viewed below: This paper, which details the development of a non-convex optimisation algorithm and its application to optimising walk […] Read more »
I have been promising this article for quite a while now, but as with anything I feel strongly about, I would rather wait until I have the time to put in the effort it deserves. After a morning of proverbially bashing my head against the desk running gene ontology experiments in R, today appears to […] Read more »
This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article. By David Budden, University of Melbourne Teaching a robot to walk – even poorly – requires huge investment into computational resources. How is it that even the simplest animals are able to achieve far more sophisticated feats of manoeuvrability? In a paper published […] Read more »
Firstly, apologies for the delay in the upcoming article promised in my last post. As I’ve mentioned on more than one occasion, postgraduate research has a way of suppressing your awareness of time passing… But for now, I have some good news to report! A few weeks ago, I was nominated by the head of […] Read more »
Once again, I have been sucked into the Ph.D vortex where time loses all meaning and regretfully neglected this website for nearly two months! To get the ball rolling once more, I’ll post a few quick updates about what’s going on in my life. This weekend I will (hopefully) follow up with an article I […] Read more »
It has been four months since my previous update regarding my Ph.D research direction, so with an upcoming confirmation and guest seminar presentations for the Hunter Medical Research Institute and University of Newcastle, now seems a good time to bring everyone up to speed with my progress! In short, my research focus has began to […] Read more »
This article was originally published at The Conversation. Read the original article. By Pablo Moscato, University of Newcastle; David Budden, University of Melbourne; Hugh Craig, University of Newcastle, and John W. Marsden, University of Newcastle Shakespeare’s plays and cancer: two seemingly unrelated topics with an underlying common thread. The techniques that computational linguistics and computer […] Read more »