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Mr Dave Jones

Position

Senior Associate

School /
Work Unit

Electrical and Computer Eng

Contact Details

No Phone

Location

City Campus

College/Portfolio

Science, Engineering & Health

"David Jones"

Qualifications

  • MEng, 1977, RMIT University
  • BSc (Hon), 1972, Melbourne University
  • BEd, 1976, Melbourne University
  • Grad Dip Dig.Comp.Eng., 1989, RMIT University

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 Thesis (Unpublished), Grid Methods for Distributed Computing, 1997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