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Keynote Speakers
Following the very successful previous conferences
we will again have three very renowned keynote speakers.
Introducing Don Gotterbarn
Don Gotterbarn
Last year keynote speaker at the Australian Software Engineering Society Conference.
This year visiting fellow at the Centre for Applied Public and Professional Ethics in Canberra.
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Educated at the University of Rochester, Dr. Gotterbarn taught for several years at such schools as the University of Southern California and Dickinson College. He also worked as a computer consultant. Among the software projects he was responsible for several database systems for the U.S. Navy and for the Saudi Arabian Navy, and an interactive crime-reporting database. He has also worked on the certification of software for vote counting machines and missile defense systems.
He is currently at East Tennessee State University where he is the director of the Software Engineering Ethics Research Institute and teaches computer ethics, software engineering and software project management. He is also a visiting professor in England at the Centre for Computing and Social Responsibility and during the summer of 1999 was a visiting research fellow in Australia.
He lectures internationally on the impacts of software engineering and related technologies on society. He visits colleges around the United States as an ACM Distinguished National Lecturer. His research has appeared in more than a dozen professional journals and he has written several encyclopedia articles. His technical work includes funded research on performance prediction for a distributed Ada closure, object-oriented testing, software engineering education and computer ethics.
He is the Chair of the ACM Committee on Professional Ethics, Vice Chair of the ACM Special Interest Group on Computers and Society, chair of the International Advisory Board, Australian Computer Ethics Institute, chaired the joint IEEE/ACM committee Software Engineering Ethics and Professional Practice, chaired the Software Engineering Ethics Project, is a member of the Australian Computer Society Ethics Task Force and a member of the executive committee of the International Society on Ethics of Information Technology.
Complete resume available at csciwww.etsu.edu/gotterbarn
Introducing Professor Albert Yeap
Professor Albert Yeap
Professor Yeap graduated from the University of Essex (UK) in 1985 and since then has been the Director of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Research Laboratory at the University of Otago and more recently, he is the Director of AI Technology Centre at AUT.
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Professor Yeap is fascinated with how the mind works and began his search for an answer by investigating how an autonomous agent, be it a robot or a human, finds its way in its environment. His theory of cognitive mapping was published twice in the premiere journal of the field, aptly named Artificial Intelligence. More recently, Professor Yeap has developed a new theory of language which, he claims, overturns Chomsky's idea of a universal grammar. His recent work on language is supported with a NERF grant of $500,000 for two years and awarded to him at AUT.
Introducing Iain Morrison
Abstract:
Over the past few years, there has been, within Australia, considerable debate and investigation of the impact of the ‘new economy’ and of the particular knowledge demands it will place on the developing workforce.
The education community, operating on both the supply and demand side of the knowledge economy, has been active in the debate as has the ICT industry, in particular, as its growth prospects and competitiveness depends on ready access to requisite skills bases and intellectual capital.
The paper will explore some of the issues that have surfaced in a series of reports, including economic impacts at the personal and societal levels and professional staff and program/skills development. The paper will also look at estimates of the skills ‘gaps’ and opportunity for industry, government and education institutions to address these. Emphasis will be placed on the higher education sector where staff and program demands, and industry linkage requirements, appear to be most pressing.
Iain Morrison
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