THE RISE AND FALL OF SEMICONDUCTOR MANUFACTURING IN AUSTRALIA
Following the invention and development of the transistor in the late1940’s in the USA, the CSIRO began research into semiconductors.
SNOCOM and CIRRUS
Sixty years ago Australians designed and built two of the first transistorised computers called SNOCOM and CIRRUS. They were very advanced for their era.
The Role of the ICT Community in the Future Resilience and Self-Reliance of Australia
On August 9th the Pearcey Foundation hosted a Conversation on the Role of the ICT Community in the Future Resilience and Self-reliance of Australia.
The world’s biggest non-IBM IBM network
Nobody much remembers it now, but 40 years ago Australia built one of the world’s largest computer networks. In 1981 Australia’s Department of Social Security (DSS) began planning an ambitious network to connect all of its 210 Australian offices in real time. The plan...
Girls, computers and rocket science.
Barbara Ainsworth, Monash Museum of Computing History, Faculty of Information Technology, Monash University.
Book Review – A Thread Across The Ocean: The Heroic Story of the Transatlantic Cable. By John Steele Gordon
Guest Blog by Sonja Bernhardt OAM
The COVIDSafe App: A Question of Trust
MEDIA RELEASE How the Australian Government and Australian citizens can ensure the success of the new coronavirus tracing app.The Pearcey Foundation today announced the publication of a discussion paper in response to the launch of the Australian Government's...
Pearcey COVIDSafe App Paper
The Australian Government has now released its coronavirus tracing app, called COVIDSafe. To be effective, the app needs to be downloaded and used by a significant proportion of the Australian population.
Expanding Project to become a Virtual Museum
Who would have thought we would all be at home (well almost all, I hope) working like this? Very strange and challenging times... One initiative we kicked off last November related to engaging Graeme Philipson to write the definitive history of the Australian ICT...
50th Anniversary of Australia’s First Satellite
In 1966 a bunch of students (undergrads and post-grads) at the Department of Elec Eng at Melbourne University built Australia's first satellite. It was ultimately launched in 1970 by NASA. A member of the team of 8, who designed and constructed the satellite, was...
Kicking off the Heritage Project
Hi everybody Graeme Philipson here. You know me as the author of a book on the Australian computer industry called ‘A Vision Splendid’. Many of you helped with that book or offered advice or information after it came out about things that were missing or could have...
ABC Science Show – CSIRAC the first computer to play music
On Saturday 22 June 2019, the ABC Science Show had a special feature Recreating the first digital computer music. Presented by Carl Smith in the second half of the podcast (31 minute mark).In 1949, Australia leapt into the digital age when the Council for Scientific...
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