Greetings from the Australian Computer Society 2013 Canberra Conference at Old Parliament House in Canberra. The conference topic is "ICT Shaping Our World", but as always the topic of the ACS Canberra conferences is IT in the Australian Government and in organizations supporting government: http://www.acs.org.au/branches/canberra/2013Conference/conference-program
The conference comes at an interesting time for Canberra, with the public service adjusting to a new government which has an agenda to reduce cost by working in new ways. This is one of the few general computing conferences still run, which is not about a particular company's products or piece of software. This is a place to take the temperature of the IT industry and see what the trends are. It is also an opportunity for academia to report what they have been working on and is ready for transfer to the workplace. First speaker for the day is Nick Tate, President of the ACS, on big data and edible computers (a serious medical application). MOOCs at ANU also got a mention as part of the trend to on-line education. The hashtag for the conference is "acscancon": https://twitter.com/search?q=%23acscancon&src=hash I will be blogging during the day at: http://blog.tomw.net.au/search/label/ACS%20Canberra%20Conference -- Tom Worthington FACS CP, TomW Communications Pty Ltd. t: 0419496150 The Higher Education Whisperer http://blog.highereducationwhisperer.com/ PO Box 13, Belconnen ACT 2617, Australia http://www.tomw.net.au Liability limited by a scheme approved under Professional Standards Legislation Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Research School of Computer Science, Australian National University http://cs.anu.edu.au/courses/COMP7310/ _______________________________________________ Link mailing list [email protected] http://mailman.anu.edu.au/mailman/listinfo/link
