The Computing Profession: A Personal View of its Early Development
Speaker: Neville Holmes, The University of Tasmania
When: 2007-04-26 12:00:00
Venue: 78-420
Host: John Williams
Abstract:I am pleased to announce that Neville Holmes, Honorary Research
Associate at the University of Tasmania, and regular IEEE "Computer"
magazine columnist, is in Brisbane next week for a Computer Society
event on Thursday evening, 26th April.
All are welcome to the evening event (details in attached PDF),
however Neville has also kindly agreed to give an informal
presentation here at ITEE in the afternoon. I would particularly
encourage postgraduate and undergraduate students to attend, and
learn a little about the history of their profession.
Biography:Mr Holmes is an Honorary Research Associate in the School of
Computing at The University of Tasmania, Australia. After
graduating from Melbourne University, he spent two years as a patent
examiner before working as a systems engineer at IBM Australia for
thirty years. Taking early retirement, he took up teaching about
computing at the tertiary level in Tasmania. Mr Holmes was a
foundation memory of the Victorian Computer Society and was awarded
the 1974 ANCAAC Medal for his paper "The Social Implications of the
Australian Computer Society." Since 2000 he has been editing and
writing the feature column "The Profession" for the IEEE Computer
Society's flagship magazine Computer.
Type: ITEE Seminar
Contact:John Williams, seminar host (jwilliams@itee.uq.edu.au)
or Guido Governatori (ITEE seminar co-ordinator)
(guido@itee.uq.edu.au)