Employment history
- 1974-89, Secondary & Primary School Teacher, Education Dept. Victoria
- 1990-, Senior Lecturer, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, RMIT University
Areas of research and consulting expertise
- Embedded systems development (Windows CE.NET)
- Bluetooth and WiFi embedded wireless systems
- Embedded IPv6
- Web Systems Engineering
- Engineering eCommerce systems (System development and implementation perspective)
- Computing in sport
Industry collaboration
- Supervised numerous student projects placed in industry.
- eg with Ford, Telstra, Ericsson, QA Software, Bosch etc.
- Currently collaborating with Microsoft Research and Microsoft Australia
Community interaction
- I have in past provided computing support to my children’s schools.
- I am regularly consulted by community members on computing matters.
Conferences
- Microsoft Academic Summit, China Nov 2003, invited Academic
- Australasian Association of Engineering Education, Melbourne Sept. 2003, presented a workshop
- Microsoft Tech Ed Academic Summit, KL Malaysia Aug 2003, invited to present a paper.
- Microsoft Research Academic Summit, Redmond USA July 2003, invited academic participant
- Microsoft Academic Embedded Conference, Redmond USA June 2003, invited participant as recipient of an Embedded Research grant.
Selected publications
MEng. Thesis (Unpublished), Grid Methods for Distributed Computing, 1997
Babbage: A Tool to facilitate Grid Oriented Applications on Distributed Computer Systems,
DW Jones D Abramson JP Hulskamp, PCAT-93, Brisbane Australia, IOS Press, 1994
Helios multiprocessor farm library, TAPA-92, Melbourne Australia, DW Jones JP Hulsklamp, IOS Press1993
Porting parallel programs form shared-memory multiprocessors to transputer based message passing systems, DW Jones D Abramson JP Hulskamp, AOTUG-4, Canberra Australia, IOS Press, 1991
Currently researching embedded systems
Other achievements
- Received a research grant, June 2003, “Embedded IPv6 Performance Issues– Heterogeneous Technologies” with Prof. Richard Harris, from Microsoft Research
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