Message from the President

Hello all and welcome to the last edition of SoIT’s News for 2010.

It was great to see so many alumni at the USITAA AGM in July. I was honoured to be reelected to the executive and to continue working with Franc, Josephine, Judy and Phillip. Serving on the executive is a great way of connecting with the university.There are many ways to get involved - I’d encourage anyone out there interested in participating to get in touch.

If your organisation has ever thought about engaging with the School to get access to top quality students, then this issue’s "Planting CEEDS" article will be of particular interest. It is a good example of the benefits of building relationships between the university and industry.

Well done to all the prize winners, promotions and funding recipients listed in this month’s edition.

That’s all for now. I look forward to meeting many of you at the events we are planning for the next year.

MARK WEBB, President, USITAA

News

Another Go at Language Design
Distinguished Engineer Rob Pike and his team at Google have developed Go, a new general-purpose programming language that makes programmers more productive.

High school Challenge wins iAward
Dr James Curran, Dr Tara Murphy and the National ICT Australia have received the Australian Information Industry Association’s 2010 iAward for e-learning.

Planting CEEDs: New opportunities for students
In a first for NSW, the School of Information Technologies has partnered with the Co-operative Education for Enterprise Development (CEED) to provide students with exciting opportunities in industry.

Pass it on
The Centre for Distributed & High Performance Computing has put together a series of lectures and labs to teach the programming language CUDA to scientists and engineers.

Retirement
After 30 years in academia, Professor Peter Eades is packing up his coloured pencils and retiring.

Report on the USITAA Annual General Meeting
The University of Sydney IT Alumni Association held its annual general meeting on 14 July, 2010.

News Bytes
Appointments, promotions, awards and more.