[Linux-aus] 2021 Applications for Master of Applied Cybernetics at Australian National University's 3A Institute now open

[Kathy Reid]

Hi everyone,

Firstly, hoping that this note finds you and your loved ones well, and 
that continues to be the case. Thoughts and good wishes are with those 
having a tough time, for many reasons, at the moment.

As folx might be aware, I've spent the last 18 months undertaking a 
Master of Applied Cybernetics at the 3A Institute at ANU in Canberra, 
and am starting a PhD there soon®.

It's been a challenging, rewarding, eye-opening, life-changing and 
lives-changing experience that's provided the interrogative, 
systems-thinking and reflexive skills needed to take cyber-physical 
systems, artificial intelligence and their components safely and 
reliably to scale. If you were at LCA at the Gold Coast earlier in the 
year (before the 'Rona ;-) ), you might have caught the talk I did on 
SenseBreast - a term project for the course.

The course heavily uses open source hardware and software (I got to hack 
on one of the first Coral TPU boards in the country mwahaha^H^H^H^ um, I 
mean, for purely research purposes of course), and may be attractive to 
people in this community. We also get guest lectures from incredible 
people - Tridge, Brian Schmidt, Genevieve Bell, Mark Pesce, just to name 
a few. Imagine having LCA keynote speakers teaching you every week.

The 3A Institute is teaching this new branch of engineering into 
existence through the delivery of an experimental, highly-experiential, 
hands-on, cohort-based Masters' program. If you'd like to be part of the 
third intake in 2021, applications are now open. The course is highly 
selective - but don't let that put you off. They let me in, after all! 
The Institute recruits people on a cohort basis - ensuring that many 
voices inform the established, emerging and nascent techno-social 
systems of the world.

Apply - I dare you! There's a story there, but you'll have to wait until 
LCA2022 in Canberra to ask me about it in person ;-)

Find out more information at: https://3ainstitute.org/programs-masters

May your boards be green and your packets be fast,

Best, Kathy