Papers and Presentations
PDF versionOver the years I have provided a number of papers and presentations on various IT topics. Material on other matters can also be found within this site. The following is a selection.
- An Introduction to Supercomputers. Presentation to Linux Users of Victoria, May 17, 2013
- The Importance of Community in Linux. Presentation to the Melbourne Linux Users Group, March 27, 2013
- Teaching Scientists High Performance Computing. Presentation to Otago University, Systems Research Group, February 22, 2013
- An Introduction to XHTML5. Presentation to Linux Users of Victoria, Beginner's Workshop, October 20, 2012
- Business Logic and Free Software. Presentation to Software Freedom Day, September 15, 2012
- An Introduction to the Command Line. Presentation to Linux Users of Victoria. August 18, 2012.
- Linux and Multicore. Presentation to Linux Users of Victoria, May 1, 2012. Plus notes.
- Unified Extensible Firmware Interface. Presentation to Linux Users of Victoria, December 6, 2011
- An Introduction to Computer Hardware With Linux (plus notes. Presentation to Linux Users of Victoria Beginner's Workshop, August 20, 2011
- The Competitive Advantage of Linux. Presentation and notes to BarCamp Geelong, July 9, 2011 (ODP file)
- Issues and Solutions in Teaching Researchers The Value and Use of High Performance Computing. Presentation to the 2nd New Zealand eResearch Symposium, University of Otago, Dunedin, Thursday 30 June and Friday 1 July, 2011.
- More Human Than Human: The Computation of Moral Reasoning. Presentation to Humanity Plus Conference, June 25, 2011
- E-Business Strategy Using Linux. Presentation to Linux Users of Victoria, June 7, 2011
- Principles and Practise of Internet Accesibility for Content Producers. Presentation to IT Enables Professional Conference, November, 2010. Plus notes.
- Social Formations in a Transhumanist World, Presentation to the Australian Singularity Summit, September 2010. Plus notes from the presentation.
- Drupal for eResearchers, presentation to Monash University eResearch eXPO, August 2010
- Social Networking and Weblog Sites for Researchers, presentation to eResearch Australasia Conference, November 2009
- Collaborative Technologies, presentation to the VeRSI Conference, June 2009
- Collaborative Tools Using Drupal, presentation to the eResearch Australasia Conference, October 2008
- What is Video Collaboration?, plus notes from the presentation. ARCS Video Collaboration Conference, Adelaide and Melbourne, 2008
- Storming The Castle: DDoS and Active Network Defenses, plus notes from the presentation. Archive of abstract from University of Melbourne. SecureCon, 2007.
- Routing and Netmasks. Presentation to Internet Vision Technologies, 2007
- Xen: A Gentle Introduction, plus notes from the presentation. Linux Users Victoria, 2007.
- The Economics of Open Source, plus notes from the presentation. Australian Unix Users Group Conference, 2006
- Cisco Router Security Principles and Practice. plus notes from the presentation. SecureCon 2006
- Book Review : The Design and Implementation of the FreeBSD Operating System. Published The Journal of the System Administrator's Guild of Australia, Volume 11, Number 1, 2005, p13
