E-Business
Issue No. 7 - October/November 2002
Refocus on IT - Adelaide gets another Byte
IT is not only ubiquitous, but can’t seem to leave Adelaide alone! For the second time this year, the SA information technology community has a chance to interface with big-league peers.
The Australian Computer Society has chosen the Adelaide Convention Centre for its forthcoming annual conference ‘Ubiquitous Computing – Tricks, Trend and Traps’, which also incorporates the Asia Pacific Forum on Pervasive Computing.
“The Australian Computer Society Conference promises to be the best we have had in the last 10 years,” says ACS President and Conference chair, Brenda Aynsley.
The Conference will build on the themes from the World Congress held in February, offering industry, government and education sector IT professionals as well as members of the Australian Computer Society opportunities for further insight. The organising committee which consists of members from ACS SA Branch, CEGSA and the South Australian Internet Association, will present a program reflecting the issues of the day.
Three streams will offer high quality speakers and a variety of topics of interest to all industry sectors. From privacy – from 21 December 2002 your small business will be impacted by the Privacy Act — to the latest in .NET and web services, to the way we work and the way we play, now and in the future.
Day 1 will consist of site visits and workshops at Adelaide’ higher education facilities – the Universities as well as the Adelaide Institute of TAFE. Of interest will be a visit to Flinders University with Professor David Powers in the School of Infomatics and Engineering. The topic–‘Robot Baby and Intelligent Room’.
“One of the dreams since the early days of the computer is being able to talk to a computer just as you would a person,” says Professor Powers, a world leader in robotics based in South Australia.
Other venues to be visited include Ris...
