Supporting Culture On-line
Alan Noble (Director of Engineering, Google Australia and New Zealand)
NICTA SEMINAR Big Picture Seminar SeriesDATE: 2011-08-19
TIME: 12:25:00 - 13:30:00
LOCATION: NICTA - 7 London Circuit
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ABSTRACT:
How Google is working to preserve the worldas cultural heritage, both by making it accessible and providing platforms for the creativity that enriches culture to thrive.
BIO:
Alan Noble, Director of Engineering, Google Australia and New Zealand, is an IT entrepreneur and executive with 25 years of international technology leadership and management experience, in Australia, the United States and Japan. Since Feb 2007 he has lead Google's research and development operations in Australia, one of Google's fastest growing engineering centres and the home of Google Maps and Google Wave.
He joined Google from NetPriva, a networking software company he founded in 2005 which was acquired by Expand Networks. From 1982 to 1986 he lived in Japan where he worked for Daiichi Kaden and NEC. From 1986 until 2002 he lived in California, where he worked for Schlumberger, the world's largest oilfield services company, for 8 years. In 1996 he founded NetMind, which developed the Internet's first change detection service. NetMind was acquired in 2000 by Intellisync (now part of Nokia) where he remained as VP of Engineering until returning to Australia in 2002.
Alan is also a national director of the Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA), a cofounder of SA Angels and an advisor on five Australian University advisory boards (NSW, Queensland, Adelaide, ANU and CMU). He is a graduate of Adelaide University and Stanford University and an adjunct professor at Adelaide University. He has been granted seven patents and has several others pending.
PLEASE RSVP BY TU 16 AUGUST to crlevents@nicta.com.au for catering purposes. A light lunch will be served following the seminar
