Graeme Simsion

Graeme Simsion was Principal and CEO of business and information systems consultancy Simsion Bowles & Associates, which he founded in 1982 and built to some seventy staff with offices in Sydney, Melbourne and Canberra. Simsion Bowles was recognised as an Australian success story, regularly winning high-profile assignments, and achieving a reputation for innovative solutions. It appeared in Business Review Weekly’s “Best Performing Private Companies” listing on three occasions, twice in the first ten, and won the Australian Computer Society’s Exemplary Employer Award five times.

Graeme has developed and presented industry education programs on a range of topics, including business process design, business practice and workplace culture, IS planning, data modelling and data management. He also has numerous publications including a widely-used textbook on data modelling, and the Australian Computer Society Certification program (two postgraduate units) in IT strategy and management.

Graeme holds a Bachelor of Science, Graduate Diploma in Computing & Information Systems and Master of Business Administration, and is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society and an Associate Fellow of the Australian Institute of Management. Recently he has been contributing to research, teaching and course development at the University of Melbourne as the Senior Fellow in the Department of Information Systems.

Industry and Academic positions have included Director of the Australian Computer Society Information Systems Board, Honorary Associate of the Department of Information Systems at Monash University, and Chair of the Industry Liaison Committee for the Melbourne University Master of Management (Technology) Program. Since 2000, he has been an Advisor to the International Data Management Association, and was the 2003 winner of its Professional Recognition award for contribution to the field.

Raymond Lister

Dr Raymond Lister is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Technology, Sydney. After a 10 year full time research career in Artificial Intelligence, Raymond Lister took up his first "teaching" position in 1994, at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane Australia. After four years there, he taught for three years at the University of Western Sydney, before joining the University of Technology (Sydney) in 2001. The current semester is the 15th semester in which he has taught a first year programming paper. He has also taught final year undergraduate electives and postgraduate subjects, mostly in Artificial Intelligence. Raymond has published several papers on aspects of the teaching of programming. He also writes a column on education research for the ACM's SIGCSE Bulletin. In 2003 and 2004, Raymond was Programme Co-chair of the Australasian Computer Education Conference. He was recently the co-organiser of a four day workshop, "Building Research in Australasian Computer Education" (BRACE), held at the University of Otago. A few days prior to the NACCQ conference he will lead a working group at the ITiCSE conference in Leeds, "A Study of the Programming Knowledge of First-Year CS Students".

Mark Billinghurst

Dr Billinghurst is the Director of the The Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand (HIT Lab NZ) which is a human-computer interface research centre hosted at the University of Canterbury in Christchurch, New Zealand. The lab is a partner of the world-leading HIT Lab US based at the University of Washington in Seattle. Before taking this position Mark spent the last eight years studying overseas, predominately in the United States. Mark is a two-time graduate of Waikato University where he completed a Bachelor of Computing and Mathematical Science (1st class honours) and a Master of Philosophy (Applied Mathematics), he has a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Washington, and has produced over 70 technical publications. Mark’s work has been demonstrated at numerous conferences such as SIGGRAPH (Special Interest Group in Graphics) and he has been an invited speaker at various national and international conferences. Mark’s career has included working for ATR Research Labs in Japan, British Telecom and MIT Media Laboratory.

Over recent years Mark has achieved several accolades for his contribution to Human Interface Technology research. Most notably, he was awarded a Discover Magazine Award in 2001 for Best Entertainment Application, for creating the Magic Book technology. Marks primary research focus is on advanced 3D user interfaces such as Wearable Computing, Shared Space and Multimodal Input.