My Professional Career

Teaching

I think my first love was teaching, although the universities I have worked at have tried desperately to sublimate that love! My Teaching page details recent stuff.

Research

I also love doing research, although not that much recognition ever flowed my way. I think my model of what constitutes research is different from most others. Make your own judgement by visiting my Research page.

Administration

I ended up in my latter years doing a lot of Administration. I'd venture to say that the years I spent as Associate Dean Teaching were among my happiest, and most rewarding. (The pages linked here have now been removed, as they were obsolete.)

Retirement

My UniSuper login page.

My Professional Activities

• Panel member of both ACS and EA Accreditation Panels. Current submission, upload
• I am a Member of the Australian Computer Society and sit on the Academic Board of ACS Education with its Moodle Page
• I am a life member of the IEEE and the IEEE Computer Society , and subscribe to IEEE Collabratec . I maintain the Life Members Wiki Page for the Victorian chapter. I am also a member of the Victorian Collabratec chapter.
• I was a member of the Association for Computing Machinery, and for many years was a reviewer for Computing Reviews. I stood down from ACM membership in 2013.
  As a member of ACM, I have also joined MentorNet
• I have been a member of the Program Committees for
  • Australian Computer Science Conference
  • TOOLS-Pacific Conference
  • Australasian Computer Science Education Conference
• I have given a talk on XML to the Progress User Group (a commercial software users group)
• I used to maintain the Computer Science Association Web Page (now called CORE)

The Future of Information Technology

There is widespread concern within the higher education IT sector about the job market in Australia, and the falling demand for IT degree places. I've been collecting counter stories for sometime, but only recently decided to assemble them here. The list is available here.

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