Hall of Fame

View ACS's honorary list of life members and fellows.

RECOGNISING THOSE WHO HAVE MADE SIGNIFICANT CONTRIBUTIONS TO AUSTRALIA'S ICT SECTOR AND ACS.

ACS Honorary Life Member

A member that is recognised by ACS for their outstanding contribution may be elected as an Honorary Life Member. 

For information on the eligibility criteria, visit ACS Guidelines for Membership.

 

ACS Fellow

A Fellow of ACS is a person who has made a distinguished contribution to the field of ICT in Australia and is a member of the professional division of ACS.

For information on ACS's Fellows Membership Grade, please refer to ACS Guidelines for Membership.

For Fellow Nominations, please click the links below:

 

For all inquiries about ACS recognition awards, please send an email to acsrecognition@acs.org.au

 

HALL OF FAME

ACS Fellows

2001 - 2002

Bhuvan Unhelkar

2002

Dr. Bhuvan Unhelkar is highly accomplished IT professional and Professor at the University of South Florida's Muma College of Business. He is also an adjunct Professor at Western Sydney University and an honorary Professor at Amity University, India. Bhuvan is a founding consultant at MethodScience, with expertise in Business Analysis, Software Engineering (UML), Big Data Strategies, AI, Agile, Mobile Business, and Green IT. With extensive experience in banking, financial, insurance, government, and telecommunications, he is a thought leader and author of 27 books, including Artificial Intelligence & Business Optimization, Big Data Strategies for Agile Business, and The Art of Agile Practice (Taylor and Francis/CRC Press, USA). As a winner of several prestigious awards such as the Computerworld Object Developer Award (1995), Consensus IT Professional Award (2006), and IT Writer Award (2010), he is a Fellow of the Australian Computer Society, IEEE Senior Member, Associate Editor of IT Professional, Life member of the Computer Society of India and Baroda Management Association, Professional Scrum Master, SAFe Agile Leader, Member of SDPS, Past President of Rotary Sarasota Sunrise (Florida) & a Paul Harris Fellow, and Discovery volunteer at NSW parks and wildlife. Bhuvan has supervised numerous successful Ph.D. and Post-Doc students and has presented keynotes at international conferences and events

Graeme Shanks

2002

Dr Graeme Shanks has made significant contributions to the field of information technology in both Australia and internationally. Graeme was, and still is, a driving force in the recognition of information systems as an academic discipline in its own right. He is widely acclaimed in both academia and industry as an outstanding contributor to teaching, research and academia/industry relations, particularly in data modelling and data quality. His peers have attested that Graeme is a prolific publisher of high quality research papers and the quality of his research is outstanding. Currently Graeme is a Member, IFIP Working Group 8.3, Decision Support Systems. He is also a member ofthe editorial board for the Journal of Data Warehousing and Program Committee Chair for the IFIP International Conference on Decision Support Systems. Over time he has held membership of program committees at a number of Universities.

Simon Kaplan

2002

William Haebich

2002

Dr. Bill Haebich has made distinguished contributions to the field of information technology in Australia during his twenty-five years of experience in applying information technology to solve difficult problems. Bill's work has been characterised by innovation and an approach that combines the fields of commercial IT, mathematics and computer science. He has managed and participated in the development of many successful advanced systems. In the roles of chairman, convenor and contributor Bill has been inv olved in a number of committees, conferences and special interest groups. Over time he has also been an active member of higher and tertiary education advisory panels and his contribution has been acknowledged assignificant. Australian Computer Society | Hall of Fame | 2018 Page 62 Finally, Bill is known nationally as a prolific presenter and trainer and he has published extensively. He has also given of his time unstintingly and made his considerable knowledge and expertise readily available to the wider community.

Andrew Flitman

2002

Penny Collings

2002

Anthony Watson

2001

Helen Vorrath

2001

Rob Thomsett

2001

Phillip Steele

2001

Esmond Pitt

2001

Graham Low

2001

Bruce Kruttschnitt

2001

Peter Hill

2001

Bill Hewett

2001

Steve Elliot

2001

Jenny Edwards

2001

David Feng

2001

Peter Eades

2001

arolyn Dowling

2001

Stephen Chu

2001

Richard Baecher

2001