Gender no barrier for Dr Skaidrite Darius
This graduation season, we are proud to announce that Skaidrite Darius has received an honorary doctorate from the ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science.
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 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.
Australia’s first computer conference
In August 1951, a conference was held at Sydney University’s Department of Electrical Engineering. It was the first computer conference ever held in Australia and only the ninth computer conference anywhere in the world.