Media
Below you will find videos of presentations I have given over the years, as well as public science communication for The Conversation, The Age and other publications.
Video lectures
Incorporating Emotion in Technology Development
A lecture given at Edvantage Institute Australia in June 2021. How can emotion be incorporated into the design and development process of products and services? And how can emotion-cognisant design improve overall user experience?
Key Thinkers: On Donald Knuth (part 1)
Part 1 of this Key Thinkers lecture explored the life, career and influence of American mathematician and computer scientist Donald Knuth.
Key Thinkers: On Donald Knuth (part 2)
Part 2 of this Key Thinkers lecture continued discussing the work of American mathematician and computer scientist Donald Knuth.
Remembering Alan Turing at 100
A lecture given at Swinburne University of Technology in 2012. on Alan Turing, father of computer science and victim of prejudice. What lessons can we learn from the life and career of Alan Turing about future thought leadership?
Public Writing
Keane, T. and Sterling, L., ‘This little-known pioneering educator put coding in the classroom’, The Conversation, 25 August 2016.
In Memoriam article about respected mathematician and early pioneer of artificial intelligence Seymour Papert.
Sterling, L., ‘Computers may be evolving but are they intelligent?’, The Conversation, 13 June 2016.
The final article in the Conversation’s Computing turns 60 series explores how intelligent the technology has become, from the Turing Test, through the challenges of speech recognition to Watson, IBM’s Jeopardy-playing computer.
McCarthy, C., Scheinberg, A., Carillo, F.M., Butchart, J., and Sterling S., ‘Robots can help young patients engage in rehab’, The Conversation, 11 April 2016.
The advent of social robots is giving rise to new possibilities in paediatric health care.
Sterling, S., ‘Five reasons to teach robotics in schools’, The Conversation, 27 October 2015.
Robotics matches the new digital technologies curriculum, strongly supported by the university sector and states, including Victoria, but Australia isn’t doing enough to get it taught in schools.
Sterling, S., ‘An education for the 21st century means teaching coding in schools’, The Conversation, 21 May 2015.
Making the case for teaching computer coding in Australian schools.
Sterling, L., 2011, ‘Accelerating the digital researcher on the information superhighway’, Swinburne Magazine.
Feature article on the growth of eResearch in Australia and the development of an eResearch strategy at Swinburne University of Technology.
Sterling, L., 2011, ‘Copyright, consumers, control and consequences’, Borneo Post.
Originally published in ‘Campus & Beyond’, a weekly column written by Swinburne academics in the Borneo Post newspaper. On evolving copyright laws and the music industry in Malaysia and Australia.
Comments in news media
Pennington, Sylvia, ‘Complaints aside, ICT graduates in demand, say teachers’, The Age, 18 July 2013.
Pennington, Sylvia, ‘A brilliant career but not in ICT’, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 November 2012
Marshall, Konrad, ‘The whiz kid’, The Age, 31 August 2012
‘Data crunch: How can schools get kids engaged in I.T?’, The Australian, 13 July 2012
Hammond, Graeme, ‘Theres a right tablet for you’, Herald Sun, 16 July 2011
‘E-sleuths foil cyber culprits’, The Australian, 20 November 2010
Barwick, Hamish, ‘Australian cyber crime investigation skills lacking says Swinburne professor’, Computerworld, 5 November 2010