On October 31st in Sydney the Pearcey Foundation celebrated its jubilee year and presented its national awards.
The premier lifetime achievement award, the Pearcey
Medal,
was presented to brothers Aidan and David Tudehope, co-founders of Macquarie Technology Group.
For their lifetimes of achievement, Richard White, Founder and CEO of Wisetech Global, and Professor Jean Armstrong, engineer, inventor, teacher and researcher, were inducted into the Pearcey
Hall of Fame.
Selected from among the state and territory recipients of the Pearcey Entrepreneur Award, recipient of the Victorian award, Didier
Elzinga,
Founder and CEO of CultureAmp, was awarded the Pearcey
National Entrepreneur Award.
These important recognitions of our heroes and heroine of the Australian ICT sector were reported in the Startup
Daily,
iTWire,
Information
Age,
CRN,
Data
Center News Asia,
CFOtech
Australia,
Channel
Life Australia,
IT Brief
Australia,
Telco
News Australia
and elsewhere.
In 1955, the first digital computer arrived in Australia in Melbourne, called CSIRAC. It is the world's oldest surviving first-generation
electronic computer and the first computer to produce digital music.
Our guest was the former Head of the Dept of Computer Science at the Uni of Melbourne and explains how CSIRAC led to the rapid adoption of
computing at the university and fostered the discipline.
Guest: Dr Peter Thorne, former Head of the Department of Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Chair, Heritage
Committee, The Pearcey Foundation.
Broadcast 3 Sep 2023
Australia 4.0 is a Pearcey Foundation thought leadership initiative to identify and discuss the challenges and opportunities of a digital and data enabled transformation of the electricity sector to Australia Net Zero.
