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October 2019 Meeting
Our guest speaker is Dr. Lynette Bettio, a Senior Climatologist at the Australian Bureau of Meteorology. She will talk to us about the data collection, computing and climate modelling work she is involved with.
Lynette has a PhD in climate science and works in the Climate Monitoring section at the Bureau. The Climate Monitoring section is responsible for the preparation and analysis of Australia’s instrumental climate record. Lynette examines and communicates on changes to Australia’s climate including long-term trends in rainfall and temperature and the interaction with extreme events. Another focus is drought across Australia and how the Bureau can best communicate and inform around this.
Our in-house speaker is Jan Whitaker, long time Melbourne PC User Group member, who will take us through the whys and wherefores of getting started discovering your family history, including her own beginnings in genealogy, online and offline tools, as well as where to go for more help.
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September 2019 Meeting
The keynote speaker this month is Catherine Newington. Catherine is the leader of the ICT Educators Program at the Australian Computer Society. This program is designed to support teachers delivering the Digital Technologies Curriculum across Australia. Catherine will be talking about her experiences leading this program.
Our in-house speaker this month is John Hall - his topic is: SIG Groups - Why we need them.
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August 2019 Meeting
Australia’s first computer - CSIRAC
Barbara Ainsworth is the Curator of the Monash Museum of Computing History (MMoCH), located within the Faculty of Information Technology at Monash University. Barbara will be talking to us about Dr Trevor Pearcey and the development of CSIRAC, one of the first stored-program electronic computers in the world. Born in Woolwich, London, he graduated from Imperial College in 1940 with first class honours in physics and mathematics. He emigrated to Australia in 1945.
Barbara completed a Masters in Public History at Monash University and has been the Curator at the MMoCH since 2006. In this role, she cares for the Museum’s physical collection and researches aspects of the history of computing at Monash University.
Barbara co-authored 'The Relevance of Computing Research History - The Monads-PC: A Case Study' (2013), co-authored ‘Computer History on the Move' (2016), and wrote a short biography of Trevor Pearcey for the UK's Computer Conservation Society Journal (2014). Barbara is the chosen biographer for Pearcey's forthcoming entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biograph
Our in-house speaker this month is George Skarbek - his topic: The Fastone Photo Editor.
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