Information Futures Forum - 27 March 2008
Members of the University community were invited to attend the third Information Futures Forum for 2008:
Mr Rhys Francis: Research in the 3rd Millennium AD - from research by the knowledge poor to research by the knowledge rich (a work in progress)
12.30 pm on Thursday 27 March 2008
Theatre A, Old Arts
About Rhys Francis
Rhys Francis is Executive Director of the Australian E-Research Infrastructure Council.
From 2005, as the program manager for the APAC National Grid, Rhys Francis developed and deployed an infrastructure that provides seamless access from research desktops to many of Australia’s high end computing and mass data services, and is now the NCRIS Facilitator for Platforms for Collaboration.
Rhys moved to CSIRO in 1990 to develop high-level application languages and algorithms for high performance computing. He was appointed as a Research Program Manager in 1994 and has worked on projects including electronic record keeping in government, e-commerce in the wool industry, and resource discovery and advanced information products in the manufacturing, construction, finance and media sectors. Appointed as CSIRO's ICT Sector Leader in 2001, Rhys helped articulate the strategy for ICT research in CSIRO which led to the establishment of the CSIRO ICT Centre. He then moved to became CSIRO's Director for High Performance Scientific Computing, and has since helped evolve CSIRO’s strategy in emerging e-science services.
- View a video of this Information Futures Forum
- Australian E-Research Infrastructure Council
- NCRIS Platforms for Collaboration
- Rhys's keynote presentation at the eResearch 2007 conference