Publications & Presentations

Theology

Articles

  • “Hacking with the Divine: A Metaphor for Theology-Technology Engagement.” Colloquium 37, no. 2 (2005): 181-196. (PDF)
  • “Transhumanism and Christian Social Concern.” Journal of Evolution and Technology 14, no. 2 (2005): 29-43. (PDF)
  • “Praying with Machines: Religious Dreaming in Cyberspace.” Stimulus 12, no. 3 (2004): 16-22.
  • “Technology with Heart.” Reality, December 2004, 44-45.

Presentations

  • “God as Hacker.” Trans-Tasman Virtual Theology Colloquium, Carey Baptist College, Auckland, New Zealand, 11-12 February, 2005.
  • “Theology and Real Life: Applying Jesus to the Environment, the Foreshore and the Information Superhighway.” Kingdom Builders 04. Auckland, New Zealand, 8-11 September, 2004.
  • “The Spiritual Life of Technology.” Talking Theology – STANZ Conference. Christchurch, N.Z., 2003.
  • “Techno-Spirituality.” IT | Church | Culture. Carey Baptist College, Auckland, N.Z.,1 November, 2003.
  • “Angels and Robots: Theology in Posthuman Times.” Exposure03 – Postgraduate Research Exposition. Auckland, N.Z.: The University of Auckland, 2003.

Invited Lectures

  • Carey Baptist College
    • The current state of science-religion interaction (2005)
    • Transhumanism – Humans as (co-)creators? (2005)
    • The Trauma of Being Human - Systematic Theology Perspective (2005)
    • Being Human (2003)
  • Bible College of New Zealand
    • Creation, technology and human being (2005)
    • Gospel and techno-culture (2005)
    • Science, technology and God. (2003)
    • Postmodernity and worship (2003)

Computer Science

Articles and Conference Papers

  • Garner, S.R., S.J. Cunningham, G. Holmes, C.G. Nevill-Manning, and I.H. Witten.”Applying a Machine Learning Workbench: Experience with Agricultural Databases.” In Proc. Machine Learning in Practice Workshop, ML’95, 14-21. Tahoe City, CA, USA, 1995.(PDF)
  • Garner, S.R., G. Holmes, R.J. McQueen, and I.H. Witten. “Machine Learning from Agricultural Databases: Practice and Experience.” New Zealand Journal of Computing 6, no. 1a (1995): 69-73.(PDF)
  • McQueen, R.J., S.R. Garner, C.G. Nevill-Manning, and I.H. Witten. “Applying Machine Learning to Agricultural Data.” Computing and Electronics in Agriculture 12, no. 4 (1995): 275-293. (PDF)
  • Garner, S.R. “WEKA: The Waikato Environment for Knowledge Analysis.” In Proc. New Zealand Computer Science Research Students Conference, 57-64. University of Waikato, Hamilton, New Zealand, 1995. (PDF)
  • McQueen, R.J., D.L. Neal, R.E. DeWar, S.R. Garner, and C.G. Nevill-Manning. “The Weka Machine Learning Workbench : Its Application to a Real World Agricultural Database.” In Proc. Canadian Machine Learning Workshop, xv2-8. Banff, Canada., 1994.(PDF)
  • Garner, S., and N.I. Churcher. “A Software Metrician’s Workbench.” In Proc. 12th New Zealand Computer Conference, 41-48. Dunedin, N.Z., 1991.