Keynote Speakers
Outline:Educational technologies are sweeping the world. They are so pervasive that it is easy to forget that as little as 7 years ago, they hardly existed at all. Now roughly 10,000,000 students use WebCT as a daily part of their education in over 85 countries. Where are we now with educational technologies? How did we get here? Where might we be going?
In this talk Murray is going to detail the early days of WebCT - the events that lead to its creation, development and proliferation. He will also talk about some of his early experiences with WebCT as the world was introduced to the potential of technology in education. Murray will follow this with a brief look at where we are now in our use of technology in education, and some glimpses into what the future might hold.
Biographical Details: Murray Goldberg is current the President and CEO of Silicon Chalk.
He is a Faculty member in Computer Science at the University of British Columbia. Murray was
the founder of WebCT (http://www.webct.com), the world's leading provider of asynchronous
educational tools. Previous president of WebCT/Canada and a member of the Company Board
of Directors, Murray was named one of five extraordinary Canadians at the 2000 National IWAY
Awards. Murray is a national and internationally recognized speaker in the field of online teaching
and learning.
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Outline: This presentation will review the evolution of Australian Army training over the past
decade with the emphasis on current activities. It will outline the Army's plan to progressively move to more flexible
delivery systems that make full use of computer-based, educational technologies and re-focus activities and resources
on learning rather than training delivery. It will discuss and demonstrate aspects of the new course management
system, THINQ(tm) and content development tool, Evolution(tm), that are being used to develop the current
generation of browser-based, network deliverable learning resources.
Biographical Details: Andre has a distinguished Army career as an Instructor and Training
Systems Manger and is currently responsible for the operation of three eLearning centres that develop military
eLearning. He holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Masters in Instructional Systems as well as four post-graduate
Diplomas in education, multimedia, business computing and professional development. He has published
journal articles, newsletter items and made conference presentations on eLearning. Last year he managed
the production team that developed the Subject One Sergeant Package that won the 'Training' category and
'Best of the Best' award at the 2003 AIMA awards.
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Title: Web Security - why is it so darn hard?
Presenter: Mary Ellen Zurko, IBM Software Group, <mzurko@us.ibm.com>
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Outline: Why is Web security so darn hard? It seems so straightforward in the physical world;
some locks, some keys or badges, some people you trust, maybe a couple of policies or rules. I'll talk about
why computer security is hard, and how the current state of the Web makes some parts easier, and some
parts harder. As a grounding example I'll use the portlet based Web collaborative applications that our team
has been working on. I'll talk about where browser functionality and standards helped us or didn't help us,
and what we had to create ourselves to fill the gaps. I'll talk about the Web security challenges I see both
short term and long term, the places where the lessons we've learned over and over already in computer
security in general should apply, and the places where the Web-specific challenges in security are brand
new.
Biographical Details: Mary Ellen Zurko (aka Mez) is the Lead Security Architect for Lotus
Workplace and Client, a suite of collaborative Web applications covering mail, calendar, instant messaging,
Web conferencing, team discussions and documents, and learning. She has worked on security for
Notes/Domino and Domino Web Access. She is a recipient of the IBM STAR award for her work on
an open standards reference implementation of public key security that was integrated into Notes/Domino v6.0.
Mez created the field of User-Centered Security and is a recognized international expert on several security
topics, including authorization policy and Web security. She is an invited expert on National Research
Council studies, most recently chairing the sub-panel that evaluates NIST security labs. She is on the
steering committees of the International WWW Conference series and New Security Paradigms Workshop.
She has published extensively on security, co-authoring seminal work in high assurance operating systems
and roles based access control.
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Title: Law
and the Web, Identifying and Managing the Risks.
Presenter: Eugene Clark, Professor of Law and Head of School, University of Canberra <Eugene.Clark@canberra.edu.au>
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The AusWeb Team would like to announce that most unfortunately Professor Eugene Clark will not be able to join us at AusWeb04 due to unforeseen and unpreventable circumstances. We would like to advise all delegates of the amended program. We hope to have Professor Clark join us as one of our Keynote Speakers at AusWeb05.
Outline: Topics to be covered will include: online
contracts, IP, consumer law issues in an online environment,
security, privacy, online dispute resolution, tort liability,
cybercrime, and intellectual property.
Biographical Details: Professor Clark holds five
degrees, including a PhD in Law and Masters in Educational
Administration from the University of Tasmania and Juris
Doctorate (Hons) and Masters in Education from the US.He
is admitted to Practice Law in the US Federal Court and
Supreme Court of the State of Kansas since 1978. He is also
a registered teacher.
Professor Clark has three years of commercial law experience
with the one of the largest Law firms in the Mid-west of
the US. He also has extensive experience in the design,
development, and delivery of professional legal education
across a broad range of commercial subjects including e-business
Law, banking law, marketing law and technology law and legal
risk management. He has significant consulting experience
in the Australia, China, the South Pacific, USA and Thailand
(through the Mekong Institute for Economic Development).
He recently undertook a project for APEC on paperless trading.
He has significant senior management experience as Head
of the Law School, Dean of the Faculty of Management and
Law and Pro Vice-Chancellor. Presently, he Head of the Law
School and Professor of Law at the University of Canberra.
Earlier in his career, he taught at the University of Tasmania
and has held visiting Professor positions at the University
of Wollongong, University of New Mexico, and University
of the South Pacific.
He has published over 100 articles and fifteen books in
the areas of commercial law, legal education, law and technology
and dispute resolution.
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Title:The Future of Collaborative B2B Web Services - Its Application to Innovation
Presenter: Satya Anupindi - General Manager, Business Innovation and Development Group
Telstra Research Laboratories
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Outline: Over the next decade, organisational ICT efficiency will be measured in
terms of the speed and efficiency with which relationships can be formed
and unformed between partners, suppliers, and employees to meet dynamic,
personalised customer demands. Gartner refers to this as "Dynamic Business
Webs".
This presentation examines the key business and technology requirements for
this new world of "collaborative innovation". standard frameworks, standard
protocols, standard processes, electronic contracts and rapid technology
integration.
Biographical Details: Satya Anupindi is General Manager for Business Innovation and Development Group in Telstra Research Laboratories. He is responsible for running two laboratories in Sydney and Launceston, with about 90 professional researchers and developers. He has led major commercial development projects on behalf of Telstra in the Intelligent Network, Network management and IP voice fields utilising intellectual property developed within Telstra. These commercial offerings have been used not only in Telstra but also its subsidiaries in Europe and New Zealand. He is also responsible for setting up and overall management of the Launceston Broadband Project, a 5 year 30 million dollar joint initiative between Telstra and the Federal Government.
While in Telstra he also worked on Financial Networks. Prior to joining Telstra in 1991, Satya Anupindi worked with Logica Pty Ltd as a technical consultant in the fields of Treasury and banking systems. Before coming to Australia in 1989, Satya Anupindi was involved in designing and implementing systems at various international locations in the Banking and Finance area.
Satya Anupindi is an engineering graduate from Indian Institute of Technology, Delhi and has an MBA from Faculty of Management Sceiences, University of Delhi.
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Title: Bringing Business Reporting to the Semantic Web
Presenter: Roger Debreceny, Nanyang Technological University, <roger@debreceny.com>
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Outline: The Semantic Web conjures a vision of applications coupled to large quantities of Web documents that have high semantic value through the use of carefully managed metadata. Some commentators see the Semantic Web as bringing order Other view the Semantic Web as nothing more than a conjuring trick of doubtful value. The international accounting community has been grappling with the development of metadata standards for business reporting for the last several years. The eXtensible Business Reporting Language (XBRL) initiative brings together many participants from along the information supply chain in a partnership. The XBRL standard is based upon a suite of XML standards including XML Schema and Xlink. XBRL provides robust metadata for widely varying classes of business reporting. XBRL has now achieved widespread adoption in financial and regulatory reporting, taxation and at the transaction level. In this presentation I analyse the business drivers for XBRL, technology choices and the facilitators and barriers to adoption. I use XBRL as a case study to make broader predictions about the future of the Semantic Web and allied initiatives.
Biographical Details: Roger Debreceny
is an Associate Professor in the Division of Accounting,
Nanyang Business School, Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Roger teaches auditing and assurance, managerial controls and risk management, with an emphasis on information systems auditing and electronic commerce. His research interests are in information systems auditing; financial reporting on the Internet including XBRL; database accounting and the auditing implications of data mining. He has published extensively in a range of refereed and professional journals and presented at a number of major international conferences in both accounting and information systems. Apart from teaching at several universities in Singapore and Australasia, he has had senior management experience in multinationals in Asia and also worked in policy development in government. From 2002-2003 he was an elected at-large member of the International Steering Committee of XBRL International.
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