Industry@ICS - 2004 Events
Macquarie
University/CSIRO Technology Trends Seminar
The Technology Trends seminars provide insights into the emerging ICT and Internet technologies that will power the next wave of Internet products and services. The seminars are FREE and are presented monthly by CSIRO and Macquarie University researchers who are leaders in their fields and able to communicate technology issues in a clear and focused way. The seminar is expected to commence at 5:30 with the talk and questions spanning an hour. After each seminar there will be time for informal networking, discussion and refreshments.
The parking rates are: $3 < 1 hour; $6 < 3 hours; and $8 > 3 hours. The parking ticket machines accept $1 and $2 coins only. For details of Macquarie University parking, see the University parking map.
To find out more please contact Ben Smith at bsmith@physics.mq.edu.au or on 61 2 9850 9106.
| Date | Topic | Speaker | |
| 09/02/04 | The Trials & Tribulations of Implementing a Wireless Network |
Paul Voulas, Novell | details >> |
| 08/03/04 | Developing Software for Medical Devices | David Mulcahy, ResMed | details >> |
| 19/04/04 | The Continuous Web Media | Silvia Pfeiffer, CSIRO | details >> |
| 10/05/04 | National ICT Australia | Ric Clark, NICTA | details >> |
| 21/06/04 | Ethics | Peter Busch, Macquarie University | details >> |
| 12/07/04 | Smart Cars: The next frontier for ICT technologies | Dr Alex Zelinsky, Director, CSIRO ICT Centre | details >> |
| 09/08/04 | Smart Sensors and Intelligent Systems | Tony Farmer, CSIRO | details >> |
| 13/09/04 | Semantic Web | Steve Cassidy, Macquarie University | details >> |
| 11/10/04 | The Future of Optical Networks | Vijay Sivaraman, CSIRO | details >> |
| 15/11/04 | Trusted Computing | Vijay Varadharajan, Macquarie University | details >> |
Note: Topics and speakers may change without notice. Changes will be reflected on this page as they occur.
Trusted Computing
5:30pm Monday 15 November 2004
Room 136 Building E6B Macquarie University
Vijay Varadharajan Macquarie University
Vijay Varadharajan is the Microsoft Chair and Professor of Computing at Macquarie University. He is also the Director of Information and Networked System Security Research. He is also the Technical Board Director of Computer Science, Australian Computer Society.
Previous to this, he was the Foundation Chair Professor and Head of School of School of Computing and IT at UWS Nepean. Prior to taking up this appointment, Professor Varadharajan was responsible for worldwide Security Research at Corporate Hewlett-Packard Labs based at HP Labs Europe in Bristol, UK, for a number of years. He was the co-founder of the HP's Security Strategic Council under HP's Senior Vice President and has has worked also with various HP Divisions in the US, UK, Germany, France and Italy. Prior to HP, he was a Research Manager at British Telecom Research Labs. U.K. Before this, he was Research Fellow and Lecturer in Computer Science at Plymouth and Reading Universities. He did his Ph.D in Computer and Communication Security in the U.K sponsored by BT Research Labs. He did an Electronic Engineering Hons degree from Sussex University, UK.
Vijay has led, managed and successfully delivered on numerous projects in funded by European Commission, Hewlett-Packard Labs., SERC/EPSRC and British Telecom Labs. in the UK and USA, Fujitsu in Japan and Microsoft as well as ARC and other Australian Government and Industry projects. His work has also led to the development of several commercially successful secure systems and products. He has also acted as Expert for European Union and worked with the UK Dept. of Trade and Industry as well being on the Editorial Board of several journals in USA (ACM), UK and Germany (Springer-Verlag). He has been a member of the Board of Advisors in Trusted Computing Platform Association (TCPA), USA and is on the Microsoft Trustworthy Computing Advisory Board (TCAAB), USA. He is a Fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS), a Fellow of the IEE (FIEE), a Fellow of the IMA (FIMA), a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Engineers (FIEAust) and a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society. Vijay has published more than 220 papers in International Journals and Conferences, has co-authored and edited 8 books on Security, Networks and Distributed Systems and holds 4 patents.
Abstract
Security and privacy issues have been increasingly significant, in particular over the recent years, with the dramatic developments in technologies and their application in businesses affecting many parts of our society. Trends are that in the future such issues will be even more significant with distributed and mobile applications interacting over wireless and wired networks delivering services to enterprises and users.
This talk will address some of the issues involved in the design and management of secure systems. It will discuss the notion of trust which has played a foundational role in security over a period of time. In particular, it will outline some of the recent developments in the area of trustworthy computing and consider some of the challenges involved in the design of secure “trusted” applications and services in a pervasive mobile distributed information environment. To conclude, it will briefly outline some of the research projects that are currently being carried out in the Information and Networked System Security Research (INSS) at Macquarie University.
The Future of Optical Networks
5:30pm Monday 11 October 2004
Room 136 Building E6B Macquarie University
Vijay Sivaraman CSIRO
Vijay Sivaraman is a senior researcher in the CeNTIE group at CSIRO's ICT centre, where he conducts research in the areas of optical networking, high-speed switching, and traffic management. Prior to CSIRO, he was on the technical staff at Atoga Systems, a Silicon
Valley startup manufacturing optical switch-routers, and at Bell Labs, Lucent Technologies, in the High-Speed Networking Research group. He received his Ph.D. from the University of California at Los Angeles in 2000, M.S. from the North Carolina State University in 1996, and B.Tech. from the Indian Institute of Technology at Delhi, India, in 1994.
Abstract
The rapid growth of the Internet and the relentless need for more communication capacity has fueled a dramatic explosion in Optical Networking in the past decade. Since its beginnings in the 1960s, the fibre revolution has now reached full swing, with millions of strand miles of fibre installed in the past few years, across continents, under oceans, and inside homes. This talk presents a general overview of current optical networking systems in the long-haul, metro, and
access network segments. Past accomplishments, current research opportunities, and future directions for the evolution of optical networking will be highlighted.
Semantic Web
5:30pm Monday 13th September
2004
Room 136 Building E6B Macquarie University
Steve Cassidy Macquarie University
Steve Cassidy is a Senior Lecturer
in the Computing Department at Macquarie University. He is a member of the
Macquarie Centre for Language Technology where he works on speech technology
applications including the automatic annotation of meeting room speech and
the development of software to support large collections of annotated speech
and language data. Steve's involvement in the Semantic Web derives from
an early interest in the web combined with his experience in building complex
annotations on speech and language data. Most recently he has worked on
deriving meta-data from audio recordings to enhance browsing of this data
and exploring query languages suitable for use in the complex graph structures
that make up the Semantic Web.
Abstract
The Semantic Web is a term coined
by Tim Berners-Lee for the next-generation World Wide Web which promotes
sharing of machine readable data in the same way that the original web promotes
sharing of human readable documents. If you want your calendar to be able
to query my calendar, your car to be able to locate my office building,
your inventory system to be able to find out about my products then you
might want to be involved in the Semantic Web.
Underlying the Semantic Web are standards which allow publication of data
of various forms and, importantly, ways of describing the `meaning' of this
data. The buzzwords are: XML, RDF, DAML+OIL, Ontologies, etc. Semantic Web
applications built upon these technologies are currently few and far between
but the potential to exploit data interoperability both within an organisation
and on the larger Web is clear.
This talk will give a broad outline of the underlying technologies and describe
some nascent applications which rely on the ability to discover and share
machine readable data on the internet.
Smart Sensors and Intelligent Systems
5:30pm Monday 9th August 2004
Room 136 Building E6B Macquarie University
Presentation ~ pdf
Tony Farmer CSIRO
Tony Farmer obtained a PhD in Laboratory Astrophysics (VUV Spectroscopy) from Adelaide University. Then proceeded to post-doctoral positions at York University (Toronto, Canada) and Newcastle University (NSW). Joined CSIRO (Physics) in 1973 and since then has worked in optical radiometry, spectroscopy of high-temperature electric arcs, arc and plasma welding, plasma waste destruction, biomedical coatings, plasma surface treatment, sub-surface radar and remote sensing. Tony currently leads the Intelligent Systems activities across the ICT Centre and CSIRO Industrial Physics.
Research in the Intelligent Systems group of CSIRO Industrial Physics and the ICT Centre is directed towards the design and performance of large networks of the future that may be used for communications, sensing, processing etc. These networks may be fixed or mobile (or both) and may be on physical scales ranging from nm to km. In addition, large networks of the future will invariably be complex, they will need to be scalable, robust, fault tolerant, secure, stable, dynamic, reconfigurable, and will require decision-making based on sensed data, system knowledge and learnt knowledge.
Abstract
The Intelligent Systems group is investigating disruptive technologies to address many of these features based on a multi-agent approach to system design issues, incorporating distributed intelligence, decision making, machine learning and emergent behaviour. The approach encompasses a wide range of potential application spaces with the present work focused on structural health monitoring for aerospace vehicles, distributed energy management and agricultural / environmental monitoring.
Smart Cars: The next frontier for ICT technologies
5:30pm Monday 12th July 2004
Room 102 Building E6A Macquarie University
Available on request. Please email Tom McGinness
Dr Alex Zelinsky of CSIRO ICT Centre
Dr Alex Zelinsky is the CEO and founder of Seeing Machines. Prior to co-founding Seeing Machines Alex was Professor and Head of the Department of Systems Engineering, Research School of Information Sciences & Engineering at the Australian National University. Alex is extensively published and is internationally recognised as a leader in the fields of Robotics and Computer Vision. He has worked in the computer industry and has had extensive international experience as a leader developing cutting edge technology. Alex has received numerous awards for his work. In 2004 he was selected as a Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is a Fellow of the Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering. In late July 2004 Dr Zelinsky will take up an appointment at CSIRO as Director of the ICT Centre.
Abstract
Information and Communication Technologies are now beginning to have a major
impact in the automotive industry. Increasingly, the basic functions in
motor vehicles are becoming computer controlled, and telecommunications
is being used to add new functionality to vehicles. A major challenge for
automobile makers is to make vehicles safe. In Australia over 17,000 people
die on the roads every year, while worldwide over 750,000 people are killed
by automotive accidents. The motor vehicle is one major cause of death in
modern societies. Intelligent vehicles could make a significant impact in
making our roads safer and reducing the road toll.
It is envisaged that eventually the automobile will evolve into an autonomous robotic system where all the functions in the vehicle are computer controlled. Electronic sensors and motors will replace the hydraulic and mechanical systems of a vehicle. Imaging sensors will monitor the external environment and will allow the automobile to automatically control behaviours such as advanced cruise control, lane keeping and collision avoidance. In-car sensors will allow monitoring of the driver for safety systems to guard against fatigue, distraction and inattention. Drivers will be able to interact and control vehicle functions through natural interfaces such as speech and visual gestures. Communications technology will open up an enormous range of automotive applications. The latest traffic and environment conditions will be provided to drivers and in-car navigation systems, in-car entertainment systems will have access to audio/video resources and the internet, in the event of an accident, breakdown or an emergency the exact position and status of the vehicle can be transmitted. The market for applications of wireless telecommunications in motor vehicles or "telematics" is predicted to explode, with a market size of $US13 billion within 10 years.
Seeing Machines is developing smart technology for cars that will contribute to safer road traffic in the near future. One of the company's first developments is a system that provides driver assistance support. A pair of video cameras aimed at the driver and a computer that analyses the images to determine the position and orientation of the driver's head and the direction in which they are looking. The immediate application of this system is to provide a warning if the driver starts to go to sleep or is inattentive. Seeing Machines is also studying other applications of the robotic technology to provide safer cars. This includes combining the video cameras observing the driver with cameras observing the road (vision in and out of vehicles). Using the driver monitoring system in combination with data from cameras observing the road, it would be possible to warn the driver if there is an obstacle on the road that they haven't seen. For example, if the driver starts to change lanes without checking, and the external cameras detected a car or other obstacles in the way, a warning is given. The company is also developing computer vision technology for road scene understanding, including surrounding vehicle tracking, pedestrian detection and road sign recognition.
The seminar will describe the real-time computer vision algorithms that have been developed for Smart Cars which operate robustly in highly dynamic situations. Demonstrations by video of the various computer vision systems will be provided.
Ethics
5:30pm Monday 21st June 2004
Room 136 Building E6B Macquarie University
Presentation ~ pdf
Peter Busch of Macquarie University
Peter Busch is a lecturer in the Department of Computing at Macquarie University. Having studied geography at the University of Adelaide and then undertaken a Masters degree in Librarianship at Monash University, Peter undertook studies in computing at the University of Tasmania. He then became an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Computer Science and thereafter the School of Information Systems at the University of Tasmania. Peter has recently completed his PhD under the supervision of the late C.N.G. 'Kit' Dampney at Macquarie University, examining the knowledge management implications of tacit knowledge diffusion in the IT organisational domain. His areas of teaching include databases and information systems. His research area focuses on knowledge management.
Abstract
Peter's PhD was on tacit knowledge diffusion in the IT organisational domain.
Tacit knowledge is complex and widespread, but for the purposes of this
presentation refers to a form of management expertise. Consistent with the
'soft' nature of this research, a considerable portion of tacit knowledge
is actually based on the differences between what could be termed 'ethical'
(or what you should do) and realistic (or what you would actually do) behaviour.
It is this unwritten knowledge that typically differentiates the workplace
successful from the less so. The talk will focus on some of the research
results to come out of the PhD with an emphasis on ethical issues in the
IT domain.
National ICT Australia
5:30pm Monday 10th May 2004
Room 136 Building E6B Macquarie University
Presentation ~ pdf
Ric Clark of NICTA
Ric Clark is the inaugural Director of Business Development of National ICT Australia Limited (NICTA). Ric is responsible for NICTA's commercialisation and intellectual property activities and leads the Centre's industry development and outreach program. One of NICTA's key missions is to fund, create, and commercialise intellectual property to enable the benefits of the Centre's research to flow to the Australian community. NICTA will act as a catalyst to encourage its staff as well as industry and other research institutions to interact and undertake ICT commercialisation to increase Australia's economic standing, and derive income for the local ICT industry and the centre. Pivotal to these efforts is building strong networks with the Australian ICT industry and research community and other 'vertical' industries where ICT is a key enabler.
Ric joins NICTA from Ericsson where he was Managing Director of its Research and Development company, Ericsson AsiaPacificLab Australia and has acted as a Director on several ICT start-ups. He is an active contributor to university syllabus and industry development and has been involved in various advisory groups with State and Federal Government, including the Victorian Comtechport Technical Users Group, Chipskills, the Victorian State Government ICT Advisory Group, the Federal Electronic Action Agenda Committee and Framework for ICT Future Steering Group. Ric is currently a member of the Electronic Industry Action Agenda Advocacy Group.
Abstract
Mr Ric Clark, Director of Business Development for National ICT Australia
(NICTA), will be presenting on NICTA's progress from its inception in 2001
through to today and beyond. Ric will outline how it is building up its
research capability in Canberra and Sydney; he will outline industry development
plans and thoughts on commercialisation. Ric will also outline the research
program of NICTA and it researchers. The central driver of its Research
Agenda, NICTA's Priority Challenges will be explained as they begin to be
implemented across the organisation, following their launch in early May.
The Continuous Web Media
5:30pm Monday 19th April 2004
Room 102 Building E6A Macquarie University
Presentation ~ pdf
Dr Silvia Pfeiffer of CSIRO
Dr Silvia Pfeiffer leads the Continuous Media Web research team at the CSIRO ICT Centre in North Ryde, Sydney. She has published world leading research on multimedia content analysis and new multimedia applications for nearly 10 years and has been involved in the development of international multimedia standards. At CSIRO her focus is on the extension of the World Wide Web's search and surf capabilities to time-continuous data such as audio and video. Dr Pfeiffer received her Masters Degree in Computer Science and Business Management from the University of Mannheim, Germany, in 1993. After a brief interval at Andersen Consulting (now Accenture) in Frankfurt, she returned to the University of Mannheim to complete a PhD in Computer Science on audio content analysis of digital video in March 1999. During that time, she worked within the MoCA (Movie Content Analysis) project exploring novel extraction methods for audio-visual content and novel applications using these. Since May 1999 she works as a research scientist in digital media at the CSIRO in Sydney, Australia. There, she worked on several projects involving automated content analysis in the compressed domain, focusing on segmentation applications. In January 2001 she had the idea of the Continuous Media Web and has developed the details of the specifications and the software with the research group that she is heading.
Abstract
Searching and surfing the Web has become the main means of interacting with
textual information to gain knowledge. Multimedia documents, however information-rich,
are still not integrated into these knowledge-building activities. The Continuous
Media Web project has developed a technology to extend the Web to time-continuously
sampled data enabling seamless searching and surfing with existing Web tools.
This talk discusses requirements for such an extension of the Web, contrasts
existing technologies and presents the developed solutions, which have been
submitted to the IETF for standardisation.
Developing Software for Medical Devices
5:30pm Monday 8th March 2004
Room 136 Building E6B Macquarie University
Presentation ~ pdf
David Mulcahy of ResMed
David Mulcahy is the Software Development Manager in the Product Development group of ResMed, a world leading developer, manufacturer, and marketer of products for diagnosing and managing Sleep Disordered Breathing (SDB). David has a BSc (Honours) in Computer Science from the University of Sydney (1982) and a Master of Technology in Software Engineering from Macquarie University (2003). He has worked in medical device software development for over 10 years: currently at ResMed and prior to that at Telectronics where he worked on Implantable Cardiac Defibrillators. His career has also included software development roles at BHP, CSC, AWA and Telstra.
A case study will be presented on the development of software for a Continuous Positive Airway (CPAP) system used for the treatment of Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA), a major subset of SDB. The topics covered will include:
- The role of a cross-functional team in developing the right product, safely
- Treating software as part of an overall system
- Developing software in a regulated environment
- Utilising a Risk Management approach to develop safe software
- Selecting an appropriate Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- The role of Verification, Validation and Testing
- Why Software is different from Hardware
The Trials & Tribulations of Implementing a Wireless Network
5:30pm Monday 9th February
2004
Room 202 Building E6A Macquarie University
Presentation ~ pdf
Paul Voulas Enterprise Architect, Information Systems and Technology - Novell Asia Pacific
Paul Voulas is currently the Enterprise Architect, Information Systems and Technology - Novell Asia Pacific Region and has been in this position since joining Novell in October 1997. Paul reports directly to the Regional Chief Information Officer - Novell Asia Pacific.
As the Enterprise Architect Asia Pacific Region Paul's responsibilities include:
- Leading the architecture, development of strategic technical systems across the Region;
- The implementation of the Region's local and wide-area networks;
- The development and implementation of strategic enterprise information systems, supporting Novell's deployment of One Net strategy; and,
- Representing IS&T on multiple Engineering Teams, contributing to solution features and functionality.
Using his strong IT background as a foundation Paul has transformed the Asia Pacific Information and Technology Team into a ground breaking and forward thinking unit that is focused on developing value add technical solutions. In turn these value add solutions have been taken by the Novell Sales Organisation to many of Novell's customers where they have been received with great interest because of their simplicity and major cost saving benefits.
Prior to working for Novell, Paul held a number of IT management positions over a period of 18 years in various organisations in the Finance and Manufacturing industries, including Zurich Insurance and Toyota.
To find out more please contact Ben Smith at bsmith@physics.edu.au or on 61 2 9850 9106.