Cameos
We are very fortunate to have six guests who will each meet with us during lectures, for 30 minutes. Each of these guests is deeply engaged in real-world software development, applied computer science, and/or computer science research, in a wide range of contexts. Their visit provides all students with an opportunity to ask questions and listen. Above all, our guests will give real texture to the question of practical software development and computer science.
Tuesday 8/10/13 (Week 10)
Kathryn McKinley (2:00pm)
Kathryn S. McKinley is a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research. She likes to solve programming language implementation problems and make systems more programmable, fast, reliable, secure, and energy efficient. Dr. McKinley and her collaborators produced the widely used DaCapo Java Benchmarks, TRIPS Compiler, Hoard memory manager, MMTk garbage collector toolkit, and Immix garbage collector. She is co-Chair of the CRA Committee on the Status of Women in Computing Research, and has testified on the issue of information technology innovation to the U.S. House Science Committee. Dr. McKinley has graduated 17 PhD students. She is married to artist Scotty Strahan and they have three sons. She is an IEEE Fellow and an ACM Fellow.
Friday 11/10/13 (Week 10)
Gavin Huttley (2:00pm)
Associate Professor Gavin Huttley is head of the Computational Genomics laboratory and head of the Genome Discovery Unit, in the John Curtin School of Medical Research at the Australian National University. He obtained a B.Sc (Hons) from Macquarie University in Sydney, a PhD in Molecular Population Genetics from the University of California, Riverside and undertook postdoctoral research at the Laboratory of Genomic Diversity, National Cancer Institute (USA) before returning to Australia. He is lead developer of an open sourced software library for genomic biology, PyCogent. His research seeks to apply evolutionary principles to biomedical problems.
Tuesday 15/10/13 (Week 11)
Ross Parkin (2:00pm)
Remo Collet (2:30pm)
I am an astrophysicist at the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at the ANU. I come originally from Italy, and did my undergraduate studies in physics at the University of Turin where I obtained my Masters degree. After that, I moved to Sweden to continue my studies in theoretical astrophysics at Uppsala University where I obtained my PhD in 2007 with a thesis on 3D modelling of stellar surface convection and spectral line formation in late-type stars. Before coming to Canberra, I worked as a postdoctoral researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics in Garching near Munich, Germany, and then at the Centre for Star and Planet Formation in Copenhagen, Denmark. I like good cuisine (Italian and non!) and am interested in foreign languages, cycling, and rock-climbing which I started recently after moving to Australia.
Friday 19/10/12 (Week 11)
Davin Fifield (2:00pm)
Oracle (Oracle Policy Automation)
Davin Fifield is a Vice President for Product Development at Oracle Corporation with the responsibility for global product development of the Oracle Policy Automation product line. Prior to joining Oracle Corporation, Davin Fifield has held executive positions as a product development leader at RuleBurst, Microsoft and RealLegal. Davin has over 20 years of experience in product development working on software products for public sector, legal and commercial organizations. Many moons ago, Davin completed his Honours degree in Computer Science at the ANU.
Andrew Tridgell (2:30pm)
Andrew "Tridge" Tridgell is an Australian computer programmer best known as the author of and contributor to the Samba file server, and co-inventor of the rsync algorithm. He is known for his analysis of complex proprietary protocols and algorithms, to allow compatible free and open source software implementations.
