Brian Molinari

email:	Brian.Molinari@anu.edu.au
telephone:	+61 2 6125 3850
mobile:	+61 4 0486 6917
faxsimile:	+61 2 6125 0010
web page:	http://cs.anu.edu.au/people/Brian.Molinari/

My initial training (BE 1966, PhD 1970) was as an electrial engineer specialising in control theory (now called system theory). I taught in the Department of Control Theory, School of Electrical Engineering, University of New South Wales and was active in this research area until 1985 or so.

Since 1973 I have worked in the Department of Computer Science at ANU and have taught across a wide range of topics in mainstream computer science. In recent years a good deal of my time and energy has gone into developing elements of the software engineering stream in our teaching program.

For 12 months from February 2001, I hava accepted a secondement to the position of Director, Scholarly technology Services.

Teaching Commitments

year	units
2000	COMP1100; COMP2110
1999	COMP1100; COMP2038
1997	COMP1013(semester 1); COMP2038
1996	COMP1013(semester 1); COMP2038
1995	COMP1013(semester 1); COMP2038
1994	COMP1013; COMP8031
1993	COMP3018; COMP8028; COMP8029
1992	COMP1013(semester 1); COMP3018; COMP8028; COMP8029

Research interests

I have been involved in a range of projects in experimental computer science, which are cognate to my teaching interests. These include the following.

Kris Project:

This project was funded over the period Jan 1988 to Sep 1990 by an Industry Research and Development Grant (GIRD scheme) awarded by the Commonwealth Department of Industry, Technology and Commerce. Project partners were the Department of Computer Science (with Professor R. B. Stanton, Dr B. P. Molinari and Dr. C. W. Johnson as Investigators) and Scientific Industrial Automation Pty Ltd. The aim of the project was to design and implement a programming environment for a robotics workcell. The total funding supplied under the grant was $380,000.

My responsibilities under this project involved: participation in the research of a task planning architecture for cooperating robots; participation in the concept proving and design of a programming environment and real-time controller for a workcell involving several cooperating robots; project management, involving oversight of the three software engineers employed on the project and reporting duties.

CAP Research Program:

My responsibilities under this program involved directing an internal project which investigates the Linda paradigm for parallel computation and its implementation on the AP1000 architecture (1990-1993). More recently, I have participated in overall project planning and have represented the Department in project negotiations.

CRC for Advanced Computational Systems:

My duties as Head of Department have precluded an active role in a research project. As Head of Department, however, I have worked on research planning committees and I am currently acting as a representative of the Vice-Chancellor ANU on the CRC Board of Management.

Research Supervision

student	degree	year	title
Oscar Bosman	MSc	-	Testing Object-Oriented Software
Robert Cohen	PhD	-	Aspects of Global Stores on the AP1000 Architecture
Gavin Michael	PhD	1997	Software Techniques for Program Parallelization in Parallel Superconductors
Wanlei Zhou	PhD	1991	Network Services for Distributed Computing
Charles Loboz	PhD	1991	An Analysis of Program Execution: Issues for Computer Architecture
Geoffrey Huston	MSc	1984	A Pascal Programming Environment
Jack Penm	MSc	1983	Petri Net Analysis via Integer Linear Equations
Kevin Cox	MSc	1978	A Size and Modularity Measure for Programs
Karel Arnold	PhD	1974	An On-Line Estimation Strategy for a Nonlinear Regulator System
Paul Ritch	PhD	1972	On the Numerical Solution of Optimal Control Problems with Multiple Inequality Constraints

Publications

A list of publications is available as a postscript file.

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