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Who are we?The Pearcey Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1998 in memory of a great Australian ICT pioneer Dr Trevor Pearcey. The Foundation operates broadly across the Australian Information Communication Technologies (ICT) sector, from celebrating achievements through national and state awards, to being involved in debate and public policy on critical national issues such as productivity, the digital economy and national infrastructure. AwardsEach year, the Pearcey Foundation organises events and makes awards including:
The most prestigious Australian ICT Award to an individual is the Pearcey Medal. In 2011, the Pearcey Medal was awarded to Brand Hoff. InitiativesThe Pearcey Foundation is also proactive in ICT initiatives. For example, in order to accurately measure the impact of ICT in the Australian Economy, the Pearcey Foundation has put forward a Proposal for a Digital Economy Economic Studies Institute (DEESI). The aim of DEESI would be to bring together fragmented and duplicated sets of statistics and analyses scattered among many government, academic and industry organisations. Contact UsPearcey Foundation Inc.
Level 1, 159 Dorcas Street Ph: +613 8646 3883 Please email admin@pearcey.org.au if you have any questions about our Events, Awards, Nominations, Initiatives or Sponsorship. |
Awards and Events2012 State Entrepreneurs AwardsIn 2012 the Pearcey Foundation will be presenting our State Awards as we have done in the past. However, in 2012 we are endeavouring to align our awards timetable to coincide with, and be part of, each State's iAwards event. Complete alignment in 2012 is not achievable but there will be alignment in Western Australia (via WAITA), QLD (with AIIA and ACS), and likewise Victoria and South Australia with AIIA and ACS. Further details on each of these events are available on the 2012 iAwards website 2012 iAwards Nominations are now invited. Full details on each state event are shown on each state's page. The State based Pearcey Awards will be held as follows:
2012 National AwardsIn 2012, the Pearcey Foundation National Awards will form part of the 2012 iAwards event set for Thursday 9th August at Crown Melbourne. As in 2011, the Pearcey Foundation is partnering with the Australian Computer Society (ACS) and the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) to hold Australia's ICT industry's premier awards event. The 2012 iAwards will honour both companies at the cutting edge of technology innovation as well as leading professionals across the industry. Most importantly, the iAwards honour the achievements of home-grown Australian innovators. Expressions of interest are NOW OPEN see 2012 iAwards 2011 National AwardsIn 2011 the Pearcey Foundation combined with AIIA and ACS to present the premier ICT industry awards at a gala event in Melbourne on Thursday 4 August at Palladium at Crown - the event was called the 2011 iAwards. At the gala dinner severaL major awards for outstanding individuals were presented:
During the day, an iAwards Australia 3.0 Forum was held to discuss the Digital Economy and the Impact of ICT on Innovation and Productivity. A full report on the outcomes of this meeting are being prepared for release during August 2011. 2011 State Entrepreneur Awards2011 Tas Award was presented to Daniel Harrison CEO and Founder of QikID in Hobart on Friday evening 25th November 2011 as part of the 2011 Annual ACS National Congress. 2011 SA Award were held on Thursday 17th November 2011 at Innovate SA premises in Adelaide. The 2011 SA Pearcey Entreprener Award winner was Matthew Michalewicz. 2011 Vic Award - was presented to Dr Elaine Saunders as part of the Victorian iAwards presentation lunch, Wednesday 6 July 2011 in Melbourne. (more...) 2011 Qld Award - was presented to Bevan Slattery and Janine Garrett as part of the 2011 Queensland iAwards dinner in Brisbane on Tuesday 5 July 2011. 2011 NSW Award - was presented to Simon Poole and Steve Frisken at NSW Parliament on the 12th of October, by the NSW Deputy Premier, the Hon Andrew Stoner, in an event that included a very lively "The Secret Sauce" for Technology Entrepreneurs" panel discussion. 2011 ACT Award - was presented to Matt Bullock at the annual ACS ACT Branch Awards evening held at the 'Boathouse', Canberra on Thursday 15th September 2011. |
NewsCSIRO ICT Executives reconnect with CSIRAC – Australia’s first electronic digital computer[23 Jan 2012] The new world of computer science met the old in late January when senior executives from CSIRO’s ICT Centre paid a visit to CSIRAC. “I first saw CSIRAC when I was in Melbourne on holiday recently,” said ICT Centre Director Dr Ian Oppermann. “I was truly inspired by its complexity and power and hoped it would similarly move my colleagues so I wrote an excursion to the museum into our meeting schedule.”  Dr Peter Thorne (who worked on CSIRAC when an undergraduate and decades later, while Head of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne, initiated and led the project to document the history of the computer and ensure its place in our nation's history) gave the visitors a guided tour of the computer. He reminded the visitors that the CSIR MK1/CSIRAC is the only intact survivor of the machines which launched the information age. Dr Thorne is also a member of the National Committee of the Pearcey Foundation named in honour of Dr Trevor Pearcey who led the team at CSIRO that designed and built CSIRAC in 1949. Museum Victoria CEO Dr Patrick Greene dropped by and explained his connection with early computer history; he once lived in a property originally owned by Charles Babbage and he was later involved in the creation of the replica of the first stored program machine - the Manchester Baby. December 2011 Pearcey Newsletter[13 December 2011] For friends of Pearcey please read our Newsletter December 2011 for a summary of our awards made during calendar 2011, This is of special interest as this was the first year we combined our National pearcey event with the ACS and AIIA as part of the new iAwards national event. |
