Staff Profile
Ross Wilkinson
Principal Research Scientist
Information Engineering Laboratory Leader
CSIRO ICT Centre, Melbourne
Contact Details
CSIRO ICT Centre
GPO Box 664
Canberra ACT 2601 Australia
E-mail: Ross.Wilkinson@csiro.au
Telephone: +61 2 6216 7152
Mobile: 0419 53 41 63
Fax: +61 2 6216 7111
Overview
Information engineering is about developing new tools, methods, architectures
and products that allow people to effectively manage, query, analyse
and refine information from many sources, and to navigate and
deliver information that improves decision-making anywhere, anytime
Our approach is to develop systems that make use of the specialised
knowledge that people apply to their tasks, as well as the systematised
sources of knowledge that they refer to, so as to substantially
improve on today's generic information management tools.
Professional Interests
Document computing, text management, information retrieval, document
standards, corporate memory, tailored information delivery
Achievements
Dr. Ross Wilkinson obtained his Ph. D. in mathematics at Monash
University in 1982. After teaching in the U.S. and La Trobe University,
he joined the Department of Computer Science at R.M.I.T. and has
worked there until 1997, when he joined the Division of Mathematical
and Information Sciences at CSIRO. His principal research interests
are in the area of document computing. Some of his areas of research
are document retrieval effectiveness, structured documents, hypertext,
and the use of XML in document retrieval. He has published over
80 research papers, has served on many program committees and
was a program co-chair for both SIGIR'96 and SIGIR'98. In 1998
he co-authored the book entitled "Document Computing: Technologies
for Managing Electronic Document Collections", published
by Kluwer. In 1998, CSIRO worked with the Victorian government’s
Public Records Office to develop the Victorian Electronic Records
Strategy (VERS), a framework to reliably and authentically archive
electronic documents created in government. CSIRO provided the
critical expertise to develop a system and working demonstrator
for the capture, long term preservation and retrieval of government
records which enables Government to deliver accountability in
the era of electronic commerce. Dr. Ross Wilkinson was the technical
director of this project.
He currently leads the Information Engineering laboratory that
builds technologies that enable information services to be constructed
and delivered better and cheaper by knowledge workers rather than
software engineers.
Professional Memberships
ACM, ACM-SIGIR
Publications
Publication list
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