ACS WA Dennis Moore Oration & 1962 Awards 2019
Held at the UWA University Club, the WA Branch of the Australian Computer Society (ACS) annually presents leading edge orations by world class speakers over a three-course sumptuous dinner.
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This year will be no exception as we are honoured to have Professor Rachel Cardell-Oliver, Head of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at the University of Western Australia present on the subject of Sensor Networks and Distributed Intelligence.
Title: Sensor Networks and Distributed Intelligence
Distributed sensor networks comprise large numbers of small, independent, untethered computers that collaborate to acquire knowledge about their environment. Distributed sensor networks play a critical role in today’s society where networked sensors, mobile phones, tablets, drones and micro-controllers are ubiquitous. They support applications from smart homes to cities, health, agriculture, transport and logistics. This talk will consider some of the core research ideas in the field of distributed sensor networks with examples of their applications: communication over unreliable, shared channels; harvesting knowledge from distributed systems efficiently and reliably; and building robust distributed systems for knowledge discovery. The talk will conclude with some thoughts on current challenges and future directions in this field.
Background - Dennis Moore Oration
The Oration is named after Dennis Moore, the father-figure of computing in Western Australia. Professor Moore was first chairman of the WA Computer Society, the Director of the very first computing centre in WA, an executive director of Government Computing, and then appointed foundation Head of School of Computing at Curtin University of Technology in 1987.
ACS 1962 Prize
The prize celebrates the year in which the first digital computer was installed in Western Australia and is sponsored by Dennis Moore. This prestigious prize is annually awarded to an individual Computing/Information Systems student in Western Australia.
Dennis Moore with 2018 1962 Prize Winner, Taaqif Peck.
ACS 1962 Medal
The medal is named in honour of the year that Western Australia's first internally programmed digital computer was installed by Professor Dennis Moore FACS. This medal is awarded to the most outstanding completed Doctoral research (eg PhD) in Western Australia in the field of Information Technology and Computer Science.
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Speakers
Associate Professor Rachel Cardell-Oliver researches distributed sensor networks, designing systems that integrate data measurement using environmental sensors; data collection with wireless communication systems; and data analysis using data mining techniques. Working with multi-disciplinary teams, she has studied environmental challenges such as understanding public transport use, reducing household water consumption, measuring water use by native Australian plants, and the performance of rammed earth for sustainable buildings in outback Australia. Rachel was introduced to distributed systems during her Honours and Masters by Research in Computer Science at UWA, leading to a PhD on formal methods for distributed systems at the University of Cambridge. She has taught at the University of Essex in the UK and the University of Western Australia, where she is now Head of the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering.
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