In 2016, the Pearcey Foundation had many events and recognised a wide variety of ICT entrepreneurs and industry contributors, including the 2016 Pearcey National Awards, 2016 Pearcey State Awards, the 2016 Pearcey Oration, and an extensive Australia 3.0 program.
Steve Baxter named 2016 Pearcey Foundation Medallist at Annual Awards gala dinner at Sydney's Star City. The evening also elevated two outstanding individuals to Pearcey Hall of Fame and named the national entrepreneur.
1 December 2016 - StartupAUS releases its CrossRoads Report 2016(PDF, 6.6 MB) on the Australian startup ecosystems. Contains good analysis and recommendations, though perhaps could have more broadly considered industry initiatives from organisations like Pearcey, AIIA or ACS and also successes in our public markets where 180+ tech companies have listed in the last 3 years.
Pearcey was proud to host a series of events as part of the Digital Innovation Festival Victoria www.vic.gov.au/digitalinnovation. These events (2-6 September 2016) included a Pearcey Institute breakfast, Melbourne's Digital Changemakers panel and the 2016 Pearcey Oration.
One of the founders of semiconductor giant Intel, Andy Grove, passed away on the 21st March 2016 at the age of 79.
The CSIRO has teamed up with Dell to deliver a new HPC cluster called "Pearcey" to support research
activities in a broad range of areas such as Bioinformatics, Fluid Dynamics and Materials Science.
"We welcome the naming of the new HPC cluster after Australian ICT pioneer Dr Trevor
Pearcey,"
said Wayne Fitzsimmons, Chairman of the Pearcey Foundation
"We established the Foundation in 1998 in recognition of the work of Dr Pearcey in leading the CSIRO project team that built one of the
world's first digital computers, CSIRAC, which still exists intact and is on display at Museum
Victoria,
making it the oldest surviving electronic computer in the world. It's great to see the latest in HPC at CSRIO continuing his legacy."
