James Harland's guest appearances

James Harland

The Laborastory

The Whitworthian Basketball Podcast

Open Classrooms

RMIT Programming Club podcast

Sam Harris

Elon Musk

Daniel Kahneman

Julian O'Shea

Patti Smith

Tycho Brahe

Oliver Sacks

Richard Feynman

Nick Brown

Sal Khan

John Harrison

Jane Goodall

Justin Schmidt

Hedy Lamarr

Ada Lovelace

OwlTail

Welcome to our first podcast episode! Today we are talking about the future of robotics and how to get involved with robotics at RMIT.  I had the honour of talking to: Renee McMillan-Tolley, Scrum Master for the Accenture's MyWizard AiOps team at Accenture. Former tutor and executive of the CSIT Society at RMIT. Dr Ian Peake, founding lab manager of the RMIT VX labs, a robotics and virtual experiences laboratory at RMIT. James Harland, a professor of computational logic, associate dean of student experience and well known lecturer at RMIT. Highlights of the episode: 1:40: An Introduction to RMIT VX Labs by Lab Manager Ian Peake 3:50: Movements in robotics research 4:40: James Harland on COVID-19 testing with drones 5:50: Renee McMillan-Tolley on Roombas 14:30: Renee McMillan-Tolley on using chatbots for social check ups 16:30: James Harland on AWS and Robotics 19:30: Challenges in Robotic human interaction 27:50: James Harland on implications of interactions with large quantities of drones 33:40: Ian Peake on Rosie, RMIT's humanoid robot 37:20: How to get into robotics at RMIT 44:00: Upcoming club events  If you want to check out the VX labs more, check out the following: https://facebook.com/vxlabrmit https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6EpN7H7GGKGefnfmq_Ynqw https://rmit.edu.au/vxlab 

Welcome to our first podcast episode! Today we are talking about the future of robotics and how to get involved with robotics at RMIT. I had the honour of talking to: <a href="https://au.linkedin.com/in/renee-mcmillan-tolley" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Renee McMillan-Tolley</a>, Scrum Master for the Accenture's MyWizard AiOps team at Accenture. Former tutor and executive of the <a href="https://csitsociety.club/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">CSIT Society</a> at RMIT. <a href="https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/professional-staff/p/peake-dr-ian" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Dr Ian Peake</a>, founding lab manager of the <a href="https://www.rmit.edu.au/about/our-locations-and-facilities/facilities/research-facilities/virtual-experiences-laboratory" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">RMIT VX labs</a>, a robotics and virtual experiences laboratory at RMIT. <a href="https://www.rmit.edu.au/contact/staff-contacts/academic-staff/h/harland-professor-james" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">James Harland</a>, a professor of computational logic, associate dean of student experience and well known lecturer at RMIT. Highlights of the episode: 1:40: An Introduction to RMIT VX Labs by Lab Manager Ian Peake 3:50: Movements in robotics research 4:40: James Harland on COVID-19 testing with drones 5:50: Renee McMillan-Tolley on Roombas 14:30: Renee McMillan-Tolley on using chatbots for social check ups 16:30: James Harland on AWS and Robotics 19:30: Challenges in Robotic human interaction 27:50: James Harland on implications of interactions with large quantities of drones 33:40: Ian Peake on Rosie, RMIT's humanoid robot 37:20: How to get into robotics at RMIT 44:00: Upcoming club events If you want to check out the VX labs more, check out the following: <a href="https://facebook.com/vxlabrmit" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://facebook.com/vxlabrmit</a> <a href="https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6EpN7H7GGKGefnfmq_Ynqw" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC6EpN7H7GGKGefnfmq_Ynqw</a> <a href="https://rmit.edu.au/vxlab" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://rmit.edu.au/vxlab</a>

Robots with Renee McMillan-Tolley, Ian Peake and James Harland

In this episode, Natasha Taylor talks to James Harland about his innovative use of Open Educational Resources (OERs) to replace traditional text books in his Computer Science course.

Episode 6 - James Harland

Whitfield Diffie

Martin Hellman

James Harland is an Associate Professor in Computational Logic in the School of Computer Science &amp; IT at RMIT, where he is known for his obsession for incorporating Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy into every aspect of the curriculum, and for giving away far too many chocolate frogs during classes. The Laborastory is held on the first Monday of each month in Fitzroy. http://thelaborastory.com

James Harland is an Associate Professor in Computational Logic in the School of Computer Science &amp; IT at RMIT, where he is known for his obsession for incorporating Tolkien's Lord of the Rings trilogy into every aspect of the curriculum, and for giving away far too many chocolate frogs during classes. The Laborastory is held on the first Monday of each month in Fitzroy. <a href="http://thelaborastory.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://thelaborastory.com</a>

Prof. James Harland on Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman