[ { "post_id": "489", "post_category_id": "75", "post_title": "Jordan Green Elected Pearcey Foundation Chair", "post_content_short": "The Pearcey Foundation announced Jordan Green AM as its new chair, succeeding Wayne Fitzsimmons OAM, who led the Foundation from 1999. Helen\nMcHugh, the immediate past president of the ACS (Australian Computer Society), has been appointed as a director.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/489\/Wayne-Fitzsimmons-and-Jordan-Green-Pearcey-Foundation.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/blog\/categories\/pearcey-news\/jordan-green-elected-pearcey-foundation-chair\/", "post_date": "2026-04-07 23:10:00" }, { "post_id": "486", "post_category_id": "26", "post_title": "Computer scientist, businessman and government adviser", "post_content_short": "Guest blog by Barbara Ainsworth
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\nTrevor Robinson<\/strong> contributed to the development of computing in Australia for more than 60 years in many different areas\ncombining good technical knowledge with an understanding of the needs of the computer customers in a rapidly evolving computer industry.
<\/em>", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/486\/Trevor-Robinson-1999.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/initiatives\/computing-history\/computer-scientist-businessman-and-government-adviser\/", "post_date": "2026-01-27 01:45:00" }, { "post_id": "485", "post_category_id": "84", "post_title": "Consumers' Grid - A Data Perspective", "post_content_short": "After three years of national conversations, discussions, and debates it is very clear that Australia (and the rest of the world) needs to rethink the regulatory model and structures for our electricity system. What we have is not fit-for-purpose for the Consumers' Grid<\/strong>.\nIt is not clear that our current regulators can reinvent themselves within their bureaucratic mandates to deliver an efficient and optimal\nfuture.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/485\/Data-Perspective-Infographic-2752x1536.png", "post_content_type": "url", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/pulse\/australia-40-data-perspective-pearcey-foundation-wspze\/", "post_date": "2025-12-21 23:39:00" }, { "post_id": "484", "post_category_id": "26", "post_title": "CIRRUS Emerges!", "post_content_short": "Celebrating another great milestone in Australian computing history, today CIRRUS<\/strong> is installed for your viewing\npleasure on Level 1 Ingkarni Wardli at Adelaide University. More of her accessories and signage to be displayed in the new year. On behalf\nof all Australians, our appreciation to the Adelaide University Librarian, Siân Woolcock, and the Library Special Collections\nteam (Fiona Borthwick, Kate Moskwa, Kate Sinclair and Elizabeth Pascale) for their outstanding efforts in restoring and presenting CIRRUS.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/484\/Cirrus-12-12-25-527x664.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/blog\/2020\/snocom-and-cirrus\/", "post_date": "2025-12-20 03:35:00" }, { "post_id": "488", "post_category_id": "13", "post_title": "2025 Pearcey Hall of Fame", "post_content_short": "Prof David Skellern AO<\/strong> and Dr Cathy Foley<\/strong> were inducted into the 2025 Pearcey Hall of Fame at the Pearcey\nNational Awards event. The presentations were part of the 70th anniversary of the University of Melbourne School of Computing and\nInformation Systems celebration evening held at Melbourne Connect on 21 November  2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/488\/cathy-foley.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/national\/pearcey-hall-of-fame\/2025-pearcey-hall-of-fame\/", "post_date": "2025-11-21 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "487", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "2025 Pearcey Medal", "post_content_short": "Wi-Fi pioneer Prof David Skellern AO<\/strong> was awarded the prestigious 2025 Pearcey Medal at the Pearcey National Awards event. The presentation was part of the 70th anniversary of the University of Melbourne School of Computing and Information Systems\ncelebration evening held at Melbourne Connect on 21 November 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/487\/david-skellern.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/national\/pearcey-medal\/2025-pearcey-medal\/", "post_date": "2025-11-21 07:00:00" }, { "post_id": "483", "post_category_id": "17", "post_title": "2025 SA Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 SA Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient is Tim Stollznow<\/strong>. Tim is founder and CEO of MyVenue,\nspecialising in point-of-sale solutions for major sports and entertainment venues across Australia and North America.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/483\/tim-stollznow.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/sa\/2025-sa-award\/", "post_date": "2025-11-11 02:00:00" }, { "post_id": "479", "post_category_id": "9", "post_title": "2025 Tasmanian Award", "post_content_short": "Roxane Bandini-Maeder<\/strong>, CEO and co-founder of climate tech startup Geoneon<\/a>, was\nawarded the 2025 Tasmania Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year at the Enterprize<\/a> Tasmania Demo Day\nin Hobart.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/479\/RoxaneplusBandini-Maeder.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/tas\/2025-tas-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-29 13:00:00" }, { "post_id": "482", "post_category_id": "16", "post_title": "2025 Qld Award", "post_content_short": "Dr Clarissa Yates<\/strong>, biotechnology innovator and co-founder and CEO of Ketim\nTechnologies<\/u><\/a>\nwas awarded 2025 Queensland Pearcey ICT Entrepreneur Award at a gala dinner held in Brisbane on 23 October 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/482\/clarissa-yates.webp", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/qld\/2025-qld-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-16 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "481", "post_category_id": "15", "post_title": "2025 NSW Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 NSW Pearcey Entrepreneur of the Year Award recipient is "robot nerd turned drone lover turned CEO\/cofounder" (in his\n\twords) Rory San Miguel<\/strong>. The award was presented at a special Pearcey Foundation event on Tuesday 14 October in Sydney by Emma\n\tWeston<\/a>,\n\tthe 2023 NSW award recipient.\n", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/481\/rory-san-miguel.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/nsw\/2025-nsw-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-14 06:00:00" }, { "post_id": "478", "post_category_id": "28", "post_title": "Pearcey Entrepreneur does it again!!", "post_content_short": "As reported in The Age, Grant Petty<\/strong>, National and Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur award recipient in 2020, has partnered with APPLE to once again make professional video creation and editing accessible to every creative effort.<\/a>", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/478\/BM-Dock-1024x768.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/blog\/2025\/blackmagic-iphone-cinema-camera\/", "post_date": "2025-10-03 05:45:00" }, { "post_id": "480", "post_category_id": "10", "post_title": "2025 ACT Award", "post_content_short": "Professor Lachlan Blackhall<\/strong>, Founding Professor of the Battery Storage and Grid Integration Program at the Australian\nNational University and previously co-founder of Reposit Power, is the recipient of the 2025 ACT Chief Minister's Pearcey\nAward. The award was presented by ACT Chief Minister, Andrew Barr at the 2025 Pearcey Round Table in Canberra on Thursday, 2\nOctober 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/480\/Prof-Lachlan-Blackhall.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/act\/2025-act-award\/", "post_date": "2025-10-02 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "477", "post_category_id": "14", "post_title": "2025 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 Victorian Pearcey Entrepreneur Award presented to Sam Kroonenburg<\/strong>, co-founder and CEO of A Cloud Guru, co-founder\nand co-CEO of Cuttable. Award was presented at a special dinner in Melbourne, by Professor Eduard Hovy, Executive Director of Melbourne\nConnect at the University of Melbourne. This was the flagship event of the Melbourne Connect Innovation Week.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/477\/Pearcey2025-62.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/vic\/2025-vic-award\/", "post_date": "2025-09-07 14:00:00" }, { "post_id": "476", "post_category_id": "26", "post_title": "Oral History of Australian Computing", "post_content_short": "Australia has a rich and dynamic history of invention, innovation, and commercial success in developing electronics products in computing and allied fields. Many of these achievements are within living memory. In this series of interviews by documentary expert Karl\nvon Moller<\/strong>\nwe hear first hand from the people who pioneered this era of modern electronics innovation in Australia.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/476\/Oral-History-of-Computing-1-1536x1024.png", "post_content_type": "url", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/youtube.com\/playlist?list=PLG6TC16Jt3ifKnjhU7fuOeLkm0U4tBoji&si=BEq9BL6hhLSK_htG", "post_date": "2025-08-21 14:00:00" }, { "post_id": "475", "post_category_id": "87", "post_title": "IT Innovation in AU joint Study", "post_content_short": "The Pearcey Foundation and the Business School at the University of Sydney are proud to release a detailed project report looking at IT\nInnovation in Australia, A Long-Term Perspective<\/strong><\/em>.<\/strong>", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/475\/IT-innovation-study.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/blog\/2025\/it-innovation-in-au-joint-study\/", "post_date": "2025-08-20 23:00:00" }, { "post_id": "474", "post_category_id": "19", "post_title": "2025 WA Award", "post_content_short": "The 2025 WA Pearcey Entrepreneur Award was presented to Chris Morrissey<\/strong>, founder and CEO of Ever Nimble, at the 34th<\/sup> WAITTA Incite Awards in Perth on Friday 18th<\/sup> July 2025.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/474\/RickplusChris-Morrissey-2.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/wa\/2025-wa-award\/", "post_date": "2025-07-18 12:00:00" }, { "post_id": "473", "post_category_id": "26", "post_title": "Grandmother of the Web", "post_content_short": "Guest blog by Barbara Ainsworth<\/em>
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\nMary Lee Woods<\/strong> enjoyed a short career in Australia at Mount\nStromlo. Her son, Tim Berners-Lee, is known as the “Father of the Web”. Mary accepted the name “Grandmother of the Web’. She should be\ncelebrated for her own career in programming.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/473\/Mary-Lee-Berners-Lee-c.1940s-377x456.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/initiatives\/computing-history\/grandmother-of-the-web\/", "post_date": "2025-06-22 14:00:00" }, { "post_id": "472", "post_category_id": "87", "post_title": "UNSW Quantum Professor presented Hall of Fame", "post_content_short": "Prof Andrew Dzurak<\/strong> was elevated to the Pearcey Hall of Fame in November 2024. Unfortunately, Andrew was overseas at the\ntime of the presentation and so the Chair of the Pearcey Foundation presented the certificate in person on Friday 14 February at the Diraq lab at UNSW Campus in Kensington, NSW.<\/a>", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/472\/AndrewDzurakAward-104.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/blog\/2025\/unsw-quantum-professor-presented-hall-of-fame\/", "post_date": "2025-02-14 01:30:00" }, { "post_id": "471", "post_category_id": "85", "post_title": "Dr Ian Oppermann Appointments", "post_content_short": "Congratulations to Dr Ian Opperman on his appointment as the Chair of the Federal Government committee for Data Standards for Digital\nID and Consumer Data Right. Ian is Chair of our Australia 4.0 Committee and was our 2024 Pearcey Orator.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/471\/ian-oppermann.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/blog\/2024\/dr-ian-oppermann-appointments\/", "post_date": "2024-12-20 22:35:00" }, { "post_id": "469", "post_category_id": "11", "post_title": "2024 National Awards Gala", "post_content_short": "An evening of celebration and recognition, the Pearcey National Awards Gala incorporated the Queensland Entrepreneur Award, the National\nEntrepreneur Award, the Pearcey Hall of Fame and the Pearcey Medal<\/strong>.\nThese most prestigious awards recognise outstanding Australians in the ICT sector for their entrepreneurial spirit, achievements and\nlifetime commitment to the betterment of our society through technology enabled change.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/469\/Overview-for-web-page.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/blog\/2024\/2024-national-awards-gala\/", "post_date": "2024-12-01 06:59:00" }, { "post_id": "468", "post_category_id": "13", "post_title": "2024 Pearcey Hall of Fame", "post_content_short": "Professor Svetha Venkatesh<\/strong>, Professor Andrew Dzurak <\/strong>and Jan Kornweibel<\/strong> were inducted\ninto the 2024 Pearcey Hall of Fame at the Pearcey National Awards night on 19 November 2024 in Brisbane. The presentations were made by David Tudehope (2023 Pearcey Medallist) and the Honourable Kate Lundy (2017 Pearcey Hall of Fame inductee).", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/468\/prof-andrew-dzurack_plus_jan-kornweibel.png", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/national\/pearcey-hall-of-fame\/2024-pearcey-hall-of-fame\/", "post_date": "2024-11-19 10:00:00" }, { "post_id": "470", "post_category_id": "14", "post_title": "2024 Pearcey Entrepreneur Award", "post_content_short": "The 2024 Pearcey National Entrepreneur Award was presented to Ian Croser AM<\/strong> and David Gaul<\/strong>, founders of\nCEA Technologies. The presentation was made by Emeritus Professor Roy Green AM at the Pearcey Foundation National Event on 19 November 2024\nin Brisbane.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/470\/ian-croserplusroy-green.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/national\/pearcey-national-entrepreneur\/2024-pearcey-entrepreneur-award\/", "post_date": "2024-11-19 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "467", "post_category_id": "12", "post_title": "2024 Pearcey Medal", "post_content_short": "The prestigious 2024 Pearcey Medal was awarded to Professor Svetha Venkatesh<\/strong> at the Pearcey Foundation's National Event in Brisbane on 19 November 2024. The event also celebrated the 75th anniversary of Australia's first computer, CSIRAC, running its first software program in November 1949.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/467\/svetha-venkatesh.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/national\/pearcey-medal\/2024-pearcey-medal\/", "post_date": "2024-11-19 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "464", "post_category_id": "16", "post_title": "2024 Qld Award", "post_content_short": "The Queensland Pearcey Entrepreneur for 2024 was presented to Andrew Bate<\/strong>, co-founder and CEO of Swarm Farm Robotics.\nThe presentation was part of the Pearcey Foundation's National Event Gala Dinner on Tuesday 19th November 2024 in Brisbane.", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/464\/andrew-bate.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/awards\/state\/qld\/2024-qld-award\/", "post_date": "2024-11-19 09:00:00" }, { "post_id": "466", "post_category_id": "75", "post_title": "Biography - Trevor Pearcey", "post_content_short": "Mrs Barbara Ainsworth, Curator of the Monash Museum of Computing History has published a new biography of Dr Trevor Pearcey, Dean of\nthe School of Computing and Information Systems (1980-1984).
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", "post_icon": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/media\/website_posts\/466\/Trevor-Pearcey-1984-Monash-Archives-246x349.jpg", "post_content_type": "page", "post_content_url": "https:\/\/www.pearcey.org.au\/initiatives\/computing-history\/biography-trevor-pearcey\/", "post_date": "2024-11-11 06:15:00" } ]