AUUG Canberra Summer 99 - Presenter Bios
Steve Ball
Steve Ball is chief XML and Scripting Specialist at Zveno Pty Ltd, a
company specialising in XML and Tcl/Tk consultancy and application
development. He is the author of several open-source software packages
including: Plume, a WWW browser; the TclXML and TclExpat XML parsers;
and TclDOM, a Tcl language binding for the DOM. Steve is also author
of the soon-to-be-published book "Web Tcl Complete", by McGraw-Hill.
DR LAWRIE BROWN is a lecturer in Computer Science at the Australian
Defence Force Academy in Canberra.
His professional interests include cryptography, communications and
computer systems security, and safe mobile code. His research is in the
design and implementation of private key block ciphers, in particular
the LOKI family of encryption algorithms; and in the design of safe and
secure remote (mobile) code execution environments. He has previously
investigated the design of secure network applications protocols (eg.
telnet, ftp).
He currently lectures Computer Security and Cryptography, Computer
Science Core A2, and Computer Science 1E.
He is also the AUUG webmaster on the Internet Project system.
Ivan Dean
Ivan Dean is a Solaris systems administration specialist. He spent many
years at ANU developing his UNIX skills working for the Computer Science
department and in the general student computing area. Now he enjoys working
for himself through Anitya Pty Ltd and specialises in security on Solaris
systems, including the installation and maintenance of Internet firewalls.
Ben Elliston, Cygnus Solutions
Ben Elliston is a computer engineer with California-based Cygnus Solutions.
He has an interest in compilers and operating systems, is a believer in
the free software movement, and is the maintainer of GNU Autoconf. He has
an Honours degree in Computer Engineering from the University of Canberra.
Richard Keech, Cybersource, Melbourne
Richard Keech is a Melbourne-based computer engineer. He trained in
the Air Force and is a graduate of RMIT. He has industry experience in
defence, aviation and commercial IT. He currently works for
Cybersource as Manager, Red Hat Linux support. He is also a busy
father of two, and an active advocate for an Australian Republic.
Sam Lor, AusCERT
Sam Lor has a Masters degree in Computer Science and has worked in Unix
systems administration at various organisations including the CSIRO and
the University of Queensland prior to joining AusCERT as a Security Analyst.
Jan Newmarch is the head of Programming Systems and AI in the Faculty
of Information Sciences at the University of Canberra. He is interested
in more aspects of Computing than he has time to pursue, but the major
thrust over the last few years has developed from user interfaces under
Unix into Java and the Web. He has developed a number of publically
available software systems in these areas. He is also interested in the
use of technology in the delivery of Courseware, and has pioneered the
use of the Web for this purpose at the University.
Stephen Rothwell, NEC
Stephen's interest in computers started at an early age and one of his
first real programming projects was teaching an IBM 360/20 to cheat at
blackjack. Educated and influenced at ANU and then off to private
enterprise - first stuck with Windows and DOS programming but soon
escaping to UNIX programming at NEC. His interest in Linux started
with the first public release and hasn't waned much since. He has
spent the last several years helping to manage NEC's firewall and
internal internet and the last two years building Linux based
fierewalls for several clients including schools, hospitals and small
businesses. He is the author of the Linux power management driver.
Bruce Smith, Microsoft Canberra
Bruce has been with Microsoft for 4 years and is currently a Principal
Technology Specialist for Microsoft in Canberra. While at Microsoft he
has been involved in major deployments of Desktop Operating Systems,
LANs, Messaging Systems and Workflow/Groupware Systems. Bruce has been
trained in Windows 2000 and is currently working with early adopters of
this technology in the Canberra market. Prior to joining Microsoft
Bruce was involved with various technologies, including Novell Netware,
Lotus Notes and various UNIX systems including AIX and HP/UX. During
this time he focused of Workflow and Groupware systems. Bruce started
his career working with Wang VS and DEC VAX systems 16 years ago, after
completing a Science degree (Computer Science) at ANU.
Tony Shepherd, Sun Microsystems
Tony Shepherd is part of the global internal network security team with
Sun Microsystems. This group's main charter is to maintain the
security of Sun's network against internal and external threats. This
role involves dealing with day to day security issues, providing
information and technical advice on how new and existing internal
processes and products effect the security of the network and giving
input on company wide security standards and policies. Tony has over 7
years in the IT arena, including two and half years as a security
analyst with the Australian Computer Emergency Response Team (AUSCERT)
prior to joining Sun. He has also worked as a system's administrator
and has a double major in Computer Science and Mathematics from the
University of Queensland where he was awarded First Class honours.
Warren Toomey gained his Honours degree at UNE, and his PhD at University
College, UNSW. He is now a Lecturer in Computer Science at ADFA, teaching
1st year programming, operating systems, data networks and systems
administration. His research interests are operating systems, network
security, and free Unixes.
Peter Wishart
Peter Wishart is a system architect and project manager with CSC
Australia. He has been actively involved with Unix and AUUG Inc for
over 15 years. In his spare time he manages the news and mail systems
on the Internet Project (jointly operated by AUUG and PCUG). This has
given him some practical experience with the operation of DNEWS and
sendmail in a diverse environment.
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