Te Reo Māori in New Zealand Parliament

1 Mar 2018 | Our stories

As one of two summer 2017-18 student interns for the Kōrero Māori project with Dragonfly Data Science, Te Hiku Media and Te Pūnaha Matatini, we were assigned to help collect corpus of te reo Māori text that would be used to train the written language model component...

Ka pai Siouxsie!

23 Feb 2018 | Our stories

The 2018 Kiwibank New Zealander of the Year Gala Awards were held in Auckland last night, with much-admired Kristine Bartlett, rest-home carer and pay equity campaigner in the healthcare sector, taking out the top honour. Kristine’s fellow nominees included Mike...

Māori and Pacific Island women in science

12 Feb 2018 | Our stories

Before I started working as a research assistant on the Hidden Networks project, the only woman from the history of New Zealand science I could name was Joan Wiffen, the “dinosaur lady” who discovered New Zealand’s first dinosaur fossils in Hawke’s Bay. She was a...

How machine learning can perpetuate racism

2 Feb 2018 | Our stories

I wrote this algorithm to classify people by gender, but one of the biggest things I learned was how machine learning can reinforce racism and perform poorly on ethnic minorities. Machine learning – or programs that are able to learn from and improve on past...

Sally Davenport MNZM

19 Jan 2018 | Our stories

What better news to start the year than one of our Principal Investigators featuring on the 2018 New Year Honours List? Sally Davenport, Professor of Technology and Innovation Management at Victoria University of Wellington, Director of the ‘Science for Technological...

Te Pūnaha Matatini scholar in the news

14 Dec 2017 | Our stories

Te Pūnaha Matatini Whānau PhD student Caleb Gemmell from the University of Auckland was recently interviewed by the NZ Herald about his ground-breaking research using social network analysis to examine ancient artefact movement in pre-European New Zealand. Supervised...