Past Recipients

The prize/award winners have included:

John Hughes Distinguished Service Award

Distinguished Service Award

CORE Teaching Award

Chris Wallace Research Contribution Award

  • 2010: Dr Heng Tao Shen, The University of Queensland
  • 2009: Andy Cockburn, The University of Canterbury
  • 2008: Rajkumar Buyya, The Univeristy of Melbourne
  • 2006: Dr Seok-Hee Hong, University of Sydney
  • 2005: Dr David Hawking, CSIRO

Research Contribution Award

  • 2004: Dr Huaxiong Wang, Macquarie University.

Best PhD Thesis Award

Highly Commended

David Milne “Applying Wikipedia to Interactive Information Retrieval” University of Waikato

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Joseph Troy Lizier “The local information dynamics of distributed computation in complex systems” University of Sydney    

  • 2010 - Michael Cahill "Serializable Isolation for Snapshot Databases", THe University of Sydney
  • 2009 - Michael Hill " Multi-Dimensional Numerical Integration Using Sequences of Embedded Lattices", La Trobe University
  • 2008 - Bernard Pope "A declaritive debugger for Haskell", The University of Melbourne, Supervisors Lee Niash and Harald Søndergaard
  • 2007-  Ajmal Mian "Representations and Matching Techniques for 3D Free-Form Object and Face Recognition", The University of Western Australia
  • 2007 - Nicholas Geard "Artificial Ontogenies: A Computational Model of the Control and Evolution of Development",The University of Queensland
  • 2006-  Kwong Yuen Lai  "Caching Techniques for Mobile Computing in Wireless Environments", RMIT University. Supervisors, Zahir Tari and   Peter Bertok
  • 2005 - Caroline Linda Allinson "Legislative and Security Requirements of  Audit Material for Evidentiary Purpose" Queensland University of Technology (supervised by Bill Caelli)
  • 2005 - Shane Saunders "Improved Shortest Path Algorithms for Nearly Acyclic Graphs" University of Canterbury (supervised by Tadao Takaoka).
  • 2004 - James Brusey, Learning Behaviours for Robot Soccer, RMIT. Supervisors Lin Padgham and Vic Ciesielski.
  • 2003 - Carsten Freidrich, Animation in Relational Information Visualization, University of Sydney. Supervisor Peter Eades.
  • 2002 - Einat Amitay, "What lays in the layout: Using anchor-paragraph arrangements to extract descriptions of web documents", Macquarie University. Supervisors Michael Johnson, Cecile Paris.
  • 2002 - Tao Chen, Monash University, Supervisor Henry Wu.
  • 2001 - Wenny J. Rahayu, "Object-relational Transformation Methodology", La Trobe University. Supervisors Elizabeth Chang, Tharam Dillon.
  • 2000 - Michael Kolling, "The design of an object-oriented environment and language for teaching", University of Sydney, Supervisor John Rosenberg.
  • 1999 - Alan Roberts "Routing on Trees Under the Matching Model" Supervisor Antonios Symvonis
  • 1998 - Wendy Feng, "Algorithms for Drawing Clustered Graphs", University of Newcastle, Supervisor Peter Eades.
  • 1997 - Mark Lauer, "Designing Statistical Language Learners: Experiments on Noun Compounds", Macquarie University, Supervisors Michael Johnson, Robert Dale.
  • 1996 - Matthew Regan "Delayed Viewport Mapping and priority Rendering forVirtual Reality Display System", Monash University and
  • 1996 - Roland Yap "The Design, Programming Methodology and Implementation of CLP(R)", Monash University
  • 1995 - Mary-Anne Williams "Transmutations of Knowledge Systems" University of Sydney