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Paul Brebner, Publications etc

Published Papers (details)

Paul Brebner, Automatic Performance Modelling from APM Data; Past Experiences and Future Opportunities, invited presentation at Workshop on Performance and Reliability (WOPR25), Wellington, NZ, February 15-17, 2017. See this blog.

Paul Brebner, Automatic Performance Modelling from Application Performance Management (APM) Data: An Experience Report, 7th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance Engineering (ICPE2016), Delft, the Netherlands, March 12-16, 2016.

Paul Brebner, Recent Experiences and Future Challenges Using Automatic Performance Modelling to Complement Testing, invited presentation” The Fifth International Workshop on Large-Scale Testing (LT 2016), Co-located with the 7th ACM/SPEC International Conference on Performance

Engineering (ICPE2016), Delft, the Netherlands, March 12-16, 2016.

Paul Brebner, Jon Gray, System and a Method for Modelling the Performance of Information Systems, Australian Innovation Patent Number 2015101031, 2015.

Brebner, P. C. 2012. Experiences with early life-cycle performance modeling for architecture assessment. In Proceedings of the 8th international ACM SIGSOFT Conference on Quality of Software Architectures (Bertinoro, Italy, June 25 - 28, 2012). QoSA '12. ACM, New York, NY, 149-154. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2304696.2304721

Brebner, P. C. 2012. A performance modeling "blending" approach for early life-cycle risk mitigation. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/SPEC international Conference on Performance Engineering (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 22 - 25, 2012). ICPE '12. ACM, New York, NY, 271-274. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2188286.2188336

Brebner, P. C. 2012. Is your cloud elastic enough?: performance modelling the elasticity of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) cloud applications. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/SPEC international Conference on Performance Engineering (Boston, Massachusetts, USA, April 22 - 25, 2012). ICPE '12. ACM, New York, NY, 263-266. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2188286.2188334

Brebner, P. C. 2011. Real-world performance modelling of enterprise service oriented architectures: delivering business value with complexity and constraints. SIGMETRICS Perform. Eval. Rev. 39, 3 (Dec. 2011), 12-12. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2160803.2160813

Brebner, P. C. 2011. Real-world performance modelling of enterprise service oriented architectures: delivering business value with complexity and constraints. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/SPEC international Conference on Performance Engineering (Karlsruhe, Germany, March 14 - 16, 2011). ICPE '11. ACM, New York, NY, 85-96. DOI= http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1958746.1958762

Paul Brebner, Is your Cloud Elastic Enough? Part 1. CMG Measure IT, Issue 2, 2011. http://www.cmg.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/m_82_3.pdf

Paul Brebner, Is your Cloud Elastic Enough? Part 2. CMG Measure IT, Issue 3, 2011. http://www.cmg.org/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/m_84_3.pdf

Brebner, P. and Liu, A. 2011. Performance and cost assessment of cloud services. In Proceedings of the 2010 international Conference on Service-Oriented Computing (San Francisco, CA, December 07 - 10, 2010). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 39-50.

Paul Brebner, Anna Liu, Modeling Cloud Cost and Performance, Annual International Conference on Cloud Computing and Virtualization (CCV 2010), Singapore, 2010.

Brebner, P. 2009. Service-Oriented Performance Modeling the MULE Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) Loan Broker Application. In Proceedings of the 2009 35th Euromicro Conference on Software Engineering and Advanced Applications (August 27 - 29, 2009). IEEE Computer Society, Washington, DC, 404-411. DOI= http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/SEAA.2009.57

Paul Brebner, Liam O'Brien, Jon Gray: “Performance modeling evolving Enterprise Service Oriented Architectures”. In Software Architecture, 2009 & European Conference on Software Architecture. WICSA/ECSA 2009. Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on. 14-17 Sept. 2009. 71 – 80. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/WICSA.2009.5290793

Brebner, P., O’Brien, L, Gray, J., “Performance modeling power consumption and carbon emissions for Server Virtualization of Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs)”. EDOCW 2009. 13^th. 92-99.

Paul C. Brebner, Liam O'Brien, Jon Gray. 2008. Performance modeling for service oriented architectures. In Companion of the 30th international conference on Software engineering (ICSE Companion '08). May 10-18, Leipzig, Germany, 2008. ACM, 953-954. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1370175.1370204  

Liam O'Brien, Paul Brebner, Jon Gray. Business Transformation to SOA: Aspects of the Migration and Performance and QoS Issues. 2nd International Workshop on Systems Development in SOA Environments. SDSOA 2008. May 11, 2008.

Paul Brebner, Liam O'Brien, Jon Gray. Performance Modelling for e-Government Service Oriented Architectures (SOAs). 19th Australian Software Engineering Conference. ASWEC 2008. 25-29 March 2008, Perth, Australia. Experience Report Proceedings. pp. 130-138. Presentation.

Quan Z. Sheng, Kerry L. Taylor, Zakaria Maamar, and Paul Brebner. Research in RFID Data: Issues, Solutions, and Directions (Chapter), in: The Internet of Things: from RFID to Pervasive Networked Systems. Editor: L. Yan etl al. Auerback Publications. ISBN: 978-1420052817. February 2008.

Taylor, K., Brebner, P., Kearney, M., Zhang, D., Lam, K., Tosic, V., "Towards Declarative Monitoring of Declarative Service Compositions", in Proc. of the Second International Workshop on Services Engineering (SEIW 2007), ICDE 2007, Istanbul, Turkey, April 16, 2007.

P. Brebner and W. Emmerich, "Two Ways to Grid: The contribution of Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA) mechanisms to Service-centric and Resource-centric lifecycles", Journal of Grid Computing, Issue: Online First, Springer, 31st January 2006. (pre-publication version)

Paul Brebner, Wolfgang Emmerich, "Deployment of Infrastructure and Services in the Open Grid Services Architecture (OGSA)", Proceedings: Third International Component Deployment Conference, CD 2005, Grenoble, France, Dearle, A, Eisenback, S. (Eds.), LNCS Volume 3798/2005, pp. 181-195. (pre-publication version)

Paul Brebner, Emmanuel Cecchet, Julie Marguerite, Petr Tuma, Octavian Ciuhandu, Bruno Dufour, Lieven Eeckhout, Stéphane Frénot, Arvind S. Krishna, John Murphy, Clark Verbrugg, Middleware Benchmarking: Approaches, Results, Experiences, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 17, Issue 15, pages 1799-1805, 25 December 2005 (Published Online 28 June 2005). http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/cpe.918

Paul Brebner, Jeffrey Gosper, “The J2EE ECperf benchmark results: transient trophies or technology treasures?”, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience Volume 16, Issue 10, Pages 1023 – 1036, July 2004.

Paul Brebner, Jeffrey Gosper, "J2EE infrastructure scalability and throughput estimation", SIGMETRICS Performance Evaluation Review, Volume 31, Number 3, December 2003.

Paul Brebner, Jeffrey Gosper, "How Scalable is J2EE Technology?", ACM SIGSOFT Software Engineering Notes, Volume 28, Issue 3, May 2003.

Paul Brebner, Ben Logan, Project JebX: A Java ebXML Experience, Third International Workshop on Internet Computing and E-Commerce (ICEC 2003, April, Nice, France, 2003), Internat ional Parallel and Distributed Processing Conference (IPDPS 2003).

Ian Gorton, Anna Liu, Paul Brebner, “Rigorous Evaluation of COTS Middleware Technology”, in: IEEE Computer, March 2003, pages 50-55.

Paul Brebner, The Impact of Object Oriented Characteristics of Middleware Benchmarks, Abstract of Invited Position Paper for OOPSLA 2003 Middleware Benchmarking Workshop, http://d3s.mff.cuni.cz/conferences/oopsla2003/Brebner.pdf
Brebner, P., "Real Architecture", Kategoria, 2003,  Issue 30, pp. 43-51.

Brebner, P. (Ed.), Evaluating J2EE Application Servers - Version 2.1, July 2002, CSIRO Publishing and Cutter Consortium.

Shuping Ran, Doug Palmer, Paul Brebner, Shiping Chen, Ian Gorton, Jeffrey Gosper, Lei Hu, Anna Liu, Phong Tran, J2EE Technology Performance EvaluationMethology, Distributed Objects and Applications 2002 (DAO’02), University of California At Irvine, pp13-16

Contributed to the SPEC/OSG Java Subcommittee industry standard J2EE benchmarks: SPECjAppServer2001 and SPECjAppServer2002. https://www.spec.org/jAppServer2001/press_release.html, https://www.spec.org/jAppServer2002/press_release.html

Paul Brebner and Shuping Ran, “Entity Bean A, B, C's: Enterprise Java Beans Commit Options and Caching”, Proceedings of IFIP/ACM International Conference on Distributed Systems Platforms, Heidelberg, Germany, November 2001, LNCS 2218, Springer-Verlag, pp 36-55.

Shuping Ran, Paul Brebner, Ian Gorton, The Rigorous Evaluation of Enterprise Java Bean Technology, 15th International Conference on Information Networking (ICOIN-15), 2000.
Brebner, P., "www.heaven.space", Kategoria, 2000, Issue 16, pp. 51-59.

Paul Brebner, SPIE: Software Process Improvement by Example, In "Proceedings of 1998 International Conference on Software Engineering Education and Practice”, SEEP'98, IEEE Computer Society Press, 1998.

Daniel Walker, Paul Brebner, Developing a distributed DSS for natural resource management, Third Asia Pacific Distributed Solutions Event, DSTC, Gold Coast, 1997.

Berry, M., Colton, J., Young, J., Brebner P., Software Process Improvement within an Australian Scientific Agency. Proceedings of Vision 1996, Montreal SPIN, October 1996.

Brebner, P., “Towards a computational model of paradigms”, 32^nd annual conference of the Australasian association of Philosophy, Australasian Journal of Philosophy, Vol. 63, No. 3; September 1985.

Brebner, P., “Autonomous Paradigm-directed discovery of Naïve Scientific Theories by Computer”, First Pan-Pacific Computer Conference, Australian Computer Society, 10-13 September 1985, Melbourne, Australia, pp. 953-973.

A wordcloud of the above publications.

Reports, Conference presentations, open source contributions, courses (details)

Paul Brebner, “A computer scientist learns AWS” (A new Blog I’ve started in 2017): https://acomputerscientistlearnsaws.blogspot.com.au/

Paul Brebner, Introduction to Programming in the Processing Language (Java based language for Generative Design, https://processing.org/), 13 week High School programming course, http://www.slideshare.net/PaulBrebner/, 2015.

Paul Brebner, Cloud Security and Performance, Asian World Summit, 2^nd Annual Security Summit, Kuala Lumpur, May 2012.

Paul Brebner, Jon Gray, Shared Services and Cloud Computing, ACS Canberra Forum, September 2012.

Paul Brebner, Cloud Computing Modelling, Master class, Cloud Computing Forum, February 2012, Canberra.

Paul Brebner, Jon Gray, Migrating to the Cloud, PMI Conference, Canberra, 2011.

Paul Brebner, Masterclass, Data Intensive Cloud Computing, 2nd Annual Digital Information Management Summit, Sydney, 2011

Paul Brebner, Cloud for Government, course for NSW Government Departments, Sydney, July 2010.

Paul Brebner, Modelling Cloud Cost and Performance, A comparison of Amazon EC2, Google App Engine, and Microsoft Azure, NICTA research seminar series, Canberra Research Laboratory, June 2010.

Anna Liu, Paul Brebner, Enterprise Cloud Computing: Understanding Costs, Managing Risks, and Realising Business Value, contracted customised workshop for DIAC, Canberra, June 2010.Paul Brebner, Green ICT Overview, NICTA research seminar series, Canberra Research Laboratory, May 2009.

Brebner, P., Performance and Scalability Trade-off analysis of SOA security patterns, unpublished report, 2009.

Paul Brebner, Liam O’Brien, Managing Performance Risks in Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), Overview (day 1), Practical classes (days 2-3), NICTA short courses, 24-26 March 2009.

Paul Brebner, Jon Gray, Virtualization technology in a SOA environment, ACS Annual Conference, Canberra, March 2009,

Liam O’Brien, Paul Brebner, Modelling and Analysis for Measuring Performance Attributes of SOAs, Workshop, Software & Systems Quality Conference, October, 2008.

Paul Brebner, Is Non Functional Testing becoming more Business Critical?, invited keynote, SQS Software Quality Systems Conference, October 2008.

Brebner, P. Service Semantics. Semantic Technologies for Business and Government. NICTA/AGIMO Seminar, 13 November, 2007. "Service Semantics" Presentation (powerpoint).

Brebner, P., Walker, G., Bai, Q., Robinson, B., Evaluation of the Open Geospatial Consortium (OGC) Sensor Web Enablement (SWE) services and architecture, CIRSO ICT Centre, 2007 July, Technical Report 07/24 (contracted report for the OGC International Web Enablement Testbed).

Brebner, P., Event-based Sensor Web Services. In: Proceedings of the CSIRO ICT Centre Annual Conference, 2006.

Brebner, P., Standards for Web Services: WSDL 2.0, Web Research and Standards SIG, AUSWEB '06.

UK-OGSA Testbed: Final IGR report (2004) Document (10 pp)

UK-OGSA Evaluation Project Report 2.0: Evaluating OGSA across organisational boundaries (2004) PDF Document (27pp)

UK-OGSA Evaluation Project Report 1.0: Evaluation of GT3.2 Installation (2004) PDF document (28pp)

Brebner, P., Oxford University Computing Laboratory Talk: "Grid middleware is easy to install, configure, debug and manage - across multiple sites (One can't believe impossible things)", 2004.

Brebner, P., “UK OGSA Evaluation Project: Initial Findings”, Invited presentation at the: Core e-Science Programme Town Meeting on Grid and Web Services, 23 April 2004, London, UK.

Brebner, P. (Ed.), UK OGSA Evaluation Project, Report 1.0, Evaluation of Globus Toolkit 3.2 (GT 3.2) Installation, UK EPSRC Funded project deliverable, 24 September 2004.

Brebner, P., "Grid middleware is easy to install, configure, debug and manage - across multiple sites (One can't believe impossible things)", Oxford University Computing Laboratory, 15 October 2004.

Brebner, P., "Grid Middleware - Principles, Practice, and Potential", University College London, Computer Science Department Seminar, 1 November 2004.

Published Open Source version of CSIRO StockOnline J2EE benchmark and run instructions, http://forge.ow2.org/projects/stock-online/

Smith, T., Brebner, P., "Enterprise Java Application Profiling: Object lifetimes and Garbage Collection in J2EE Applications", CMIS Technical report, 2003.

Paul Brebner, Is your AppServer being crippled by the JVM?, Invited talk at BorCon2002, in proceedings of the 5^th Annual Borland Conference Asia Pacific, 2002, Sydney.

Paul Brebner, J2EE Architecture and Product Best Practices: Determining the benefits of working with J2EE, Invited talk at J2EE, .NET and Enterprise Application Summit (IIR conference), 2002.

CSIRO/SEA MTE Seminar series: J2EE, What’s it all about, Paul Brebner, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, 2002

CSIRO/SEA MTE Seminar series: Getting the most out of your J2EE Application Server, Paul Brebner, Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, 2002.

Brebner, P., Evaluating J2EE Application Servers: INTERSTAGE Executive Summary, March 2002 (CSIRO consultancy report for Fujitsu).

Brebner, P., Analysis of INTERSTAGE Application Server J2EE standards compliance, 2002 (consultancy report for Fujitsu).

Brebner, P., Evaluating J2EE Application Servers: Borland Enterprise Server Executive Summary, June 2002 (CSIRO consultancy report for Borland).

Brebner, P., Service Oriented Architecture Management (SOAM) by Proxy Management of Web Services (PMOWS), Project funding proposal, CMIS Technical Report February 2002.

Paul Brebner, Enterprise SOA integration architectural options analysis for NSW Department of Planning, CSIRO consultancy report, 2002.

Published Open Source ECPerf kit for JBoss Application Server.

Ian Gorton, Paul Brebner, Shuping Ran, Shiping Chen, Anna Liu, Doug Palmer, Evaluating J2EE Application Servers - Version 1.1, September 2001, CSIRO Publishing and Cutter Consortium, 96 pages.

Paul Brebner, invited talk at BorCon2001, How to choose an Application Server, in proceedings of the 4^th Annual Borland Conference Asia Pacific, 2001, Melbourne.

Ran, S, Gorton, I, Tran, P and Brebner, P, Evaluating Borland Application Server Technology, VisiBroker ITS v1.2, Borland AppServer V4.5.1, Version 1.0, September 2000.

Paul Greenfield, Piyush Maheshwari, Paul Brebner, Ian Gorton, The integration of Business E-Commerce Systems: Scoping Study for the National Electronic Authentication Council (NEAC), CSIRO Consultancy report, August 2000.

Cresswell, H., Brebner, P., Pierret, C., Paydar, Z., The SH-Pro V1.03 software for predicting and analysing soil hydraulic properties, CSIRO Land and Water, 2000
Brebner, P, Develop Better Scientific Software with Less Effort: How Architecture, Object Oriented Methods, and Java Help, November 1999. CSIRO Technical report (CMIS 99/245).

Brebner, P and Colton, J, CSIRO Technical Report for ATO Public Ruling on Web Site Expenditure.

Brebner, P., "Weka: An Algorithm for Learning Complex Concepts from Few Examples", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report number 8915, 1989.

Brebner, P., "Gargantubrain - An heuristic algorithm for learning non-recursive Horn Clauses from Positive and Negative Examples", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS Report number 8802, 1988.

Brebner, P., "Deep Thought: An Algorithm for Learning Causal Laws", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report number 8804, 1988.

Brebner, P., "A maximum-difference approach for Optimising Experiment Selection", Sydney Expert Systems Group, 1988.

Brebner, P., "Active Experimentation with Omni-Cognate", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report, 1988.

Brebner, P., "Discovering and learning with Universally Quantified First-Order Features", 1988.

Brebner, P., "An Evaluation of the Expert System Shell NEXPERT", CSIRO Division of Information Technology (DIT), Contracted Technical Report, 1987.

Brebner, P., "An efficient first-order hierarchical clustering algorithm", Sydney Expert Systems Group, 1987.

Brebner, P., "A Generalisation of Hunt's Concept Learning System", School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of New South Wales, DCS report no 8705, 1987.

Brebner, P., "Paradigm-directed Computer Learning", Thesis (MSc, Computer Science Department), University of Waikato, 1985, 332 pages.

Brebner, P., "A Relational Approach to Natural Language Understanding", Computer Science Department Technical Report, University of Waikato, 1983.

Memberships, Program Committees, Reviewing, Conferences (details)

·       Primary NICTA representative Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation Research Group (SPEC RG) and SPEC Cloud Working Group, 2011-2013. Attended annual face-to-face meetings 2011 and 2012.  Observer 2013-2016 (reviewer for "Performance-oriented DevOps").

·       35th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2013) Publicity Team

·       34th International Conference on Software Engineering (ICSE 2012) Software Engineering in Practice Track Committee Member (reviewed 20 papers)

·       Program Committee Member for: 8th Middleware for Next Generation Internet Computing (MW4NG 2013), Security and Trusted Computer Track of the Sixth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems (CISIS-2012), Middleware for Service Oriented Computing (MW4SOC 2007-MW4SOC 2012, co-located with Middleware 2007-2012), Second International Conference on Networked Digital Technologies (NDT 2010), 1st International Workshop on Security and Performance in Emerging Distributed Architectures (SPEDA2010), First International Workshop on Engineering Mobile Service Oriented Systems (EMSOS2010), SOFtware SEMinar: 35th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science (SOFSEM 2009), Theory and Practice of Software Services track (2009). Middleware For Web Services Workshop (MWS 2008) at 12th IEEE International EDOC Conference on Enterprise Computing (EDOC 2008), Middleware for Service Oriented Computing Workshop (MW4SOC) at ACM/IFIP/USENIX 9th International Middleware Conference (Middleware 2008), organiser for Quality-of-Service Concerns in Service Oriented Architectures Workshop (QOSCSOA08) at 6th International Conference on Service Oriented Computing (ICSOC 2008), IEEE International Workshop on Software Engineering for Adaptive Software Systems (SEASS’08) at IEEE International Conference on Web Services (ICWS 2008), International Workshop on RFID Technology – Concepts, Applications, Challenges (IWRT'08) at 10th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems (ICEIS2008), 1st International Workshop in RFID technology (2007), International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications (WESOA 2006, co-located with ICSOC 2006), Workshop on MOdel Driven Development for Middleware (MODDM) at Middleware 2006, 2nd International Workshop on Engineering Service-Oriented Applications, 2006., Workshop on Model Driven Development for Middleware (2006), Session chair for 3rd International Working Conference on Component Deployment 2005 (CD 2005,  co-located with Middleware 2005). Organising Committee for OOPSLA Component and Middleware Performance Workshop (2003, 2004), TES'02 - 3rd VLDB Workshop on Technologies for E-Services (2002).

·       Invited reviewer: Paid reviewer in the area of virtualization and cloud computing, for the French National Research Agency, Equipex, for the “Excellence Infrastructures” call for proposals (1 billion €, 2011), IEEE Transactions of S/W Engineering (2006- 2010). International Journal of Systems and Service-Oriented Engineering (IJSSOE) Special Issue on "Engineering Middleware for Service-Oriented Computing" (2010), Expert Reviewer for proposals in the 4th round of JACQUARD, the Dutch Software Engineering grants program (http://www.jacquard.nl/, 2008), IEEE Distributed Systems Journal, IBM Systems Journal (paid), VLDB Journal (2002-2004).

·       Proposal accepted for a BoF Session on “Virtualization, Cloud Computing and Software Architecture”, attended and chaired discussion, Joint Working IEEE/IFIP Conference on Software Architecture 2009 & European Conference on Software Architecture 2009 (WICSA 2009), 15 September 2009, Cambridge, UK.

·       CSIRO ICT Centre 2005-2007 technical seminar series co-ordinator (found speakers, assisted with travel arrangements, published events in conjunction with CSIRO, ANU, ACS, W3C, etc).

·       Attended 26^th international conference on software engineering (ICSE 2004), Edinburgh, Scotland.

·       Represented CSIRO Grid project at Australian High Performance Computing and Grid conference, 2003.

·       CSIRO primary representative on the Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation (SPEC) Java and Enterprise Services committees (2002/2003). Co-author of several SPEC benchmarks, and reviewer for submissions.

·       Australia Government Senate Committee Witness, SENATE FINANCE AND PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION REFERENCES COMMITTEE, Friday, 16 March 2001, The government’s information technology outsourcing initiative, Technical witness for the CSIRO Staff Association, 2001.

·       Council, Crossroad Christian Church Canberra (2000-2003, 2005-2012)

·       Attended IFIP 6^th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction, Sydney, 1997.

·       Invited participant Fourth International Workshop on Machine Learning, UCI Irvin, June22-25, 1987.

·       Parish council St. Matthias Anglican Church Paddington, Sydney (1989-1991) [1,000 members, 16 locations]

·       Waikato University (NZ) Board of Science student representative (1981-1982), President Waikato Students’ Christian Fellowship (largest club on campus, 1982, chaired meetings at TSCF (IFES affiliated) annual conference Dunedin 1981, voting member TSCF governing body (1982), Badminton club treasurer (1981).

Awards

• Australian Innovation Patent, 2015. 
• ACT iAwards, New Product Category, 2013.
• Australian Computer Society (ACS) Innovation Award, 2012.
• NICTA Impact Award, A. Richard Newton Excellence in Wealth Creation, 2011.
• NICTA Software and Systems Research Group Impact Award, 2010.
• Australian Academy of Science/French Embassy Award, 2003.
• CSIRO Superior Performance Rating (2002, 2003)
• "A Superior Performance Rating means that an officer at a career plateau has demonstrated superior achievement relative to other officers in their functional area at their current classification level in the preceding 12 months".

I found the Academy of Science/French Embassy Award letter recently: