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Subject: [Cshods]  CORE  presidents  newsletter  Jul-­‐Oct

Date: Tuesday,  7  October  2014  12:37:25  PM  Australian  Eastern  Daylight  Time
From: John  Grundy  (sent  by  Cshods  <cshods-­‐bounces@core.edu.au>)
To: CSHODS,  CSPRofs,  CSMembers
Dear  all

My  newsletters  are  getting  further  and  further  apart  -­‐  this  might  be  the  last  one
you  get  from  me  the  rate  I  am  going!!  :-­‐/.    I'll  try  and  generate  one  before  Christmas
but  no  promises!

Summary:

-­‐CORE  exec  team

-­‐CORE  website
-­‐CORE  awards
-­‐CORE  2014  Conf  ranking  exercise
-­‐Report  on  2014  ACPHIS  workshop
-­‐ACSW  2015  Update
-­‐CORE  banking  /  Spending  CORE  $
-­‐ACSW  2015  Heads  &  Prods  meeting

-­‐CORE  Exec  Team

Aditya  has  been  re-­‐added  to  the  CORE  exec  team  with  special  task  of
promotion  of  Computer  Science  research  impact  -­‐  he'll  be  in  contact  to
drum  up  some  exemplars  for  the  web  site  and  wider  dissemination.

-­‐CORE  website

We've  completed  the  move  of  CORE  mailing  lists  and  web  site.

I've  done  some  updates  to  the  web  site  on  pages  that  were  looking
v-­‐e-­‐r-­‐y  old  and  tired.    A  few  more  still  to  action.    Hopefully  all  the  broken
links  are  now  un-­‐broken  again...

-­‐CORE  awards

Reminder  nominations  are  due  14th  Nov  2014.    Please  think  about  nominating  someone
for  something!!    We  had  an  almost-­‐record  number  for  a  couple  of  categories
last  year.

Details  at:

http://core.edu.au/index.php/awards

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-­‐CORE  2014  Conf  ranking  exercise

We've  been  bogged  down  processing  the  multitude  of  proposed  changes  +  additional
info  provided.  This  has  turned  out  to  be  a  very  arduous  and  time-­‐consuming  process.
Arguably  too  arduous/time-­‐consuming.

Prof  Vijay  Varadharajan  and  Prof  Mark  Reynolds  were  recruited  to  assist  Lin,  Alistair
and  I  with  additional  expertise  and  to  give  a  wider  footprint  of  input.  Many  thanks  for
their  willingness  to  assist.

I  *hope*  to  send  out  next  week  a  preliminary  set  of  proposed  rank  changes  for  comment,
then  finalise  by  end  of  October  the  CORE  conf  rankings.    We  have  garnered  all  sorts
of  interesting  /  possibly  even  useful  data  about  many  venues  in  the  process,  all  to  be
added  into  the  portal.

As  always,  the  portal  is  accessible  at:

http://core.edu.au/coreportal

I'll  send  out  some  usage  stats  when  I  next  get  an  update  from  Lin.  

We  will  begin  a  hard  look  at  the  A*  venues,  and  possibly  As,  using  some  auto-­‐analysis
provided  by  a  colleague.    We  will  also  investigate  Gernot's  where-­‐the-­‐top-­‐people-­‐puiblish
approach  as  a  complementary  information  source.    More  when  I  can  recover  from  the
current  efforts...

-­‐Report  on  2014  ACPHIS  workshop

I  attended  the  InfoSys  folk's  Heads  &  Profs  meeting  @  Deakin  last  week.  This  was  again
a  most  useful  and  also  enjoyable  networking  event.  We  had  several  sessions  looking
at,  among  other  things:
-­‐Sector  issues  including  various  possible  impacts  of  major  funding  changes
-­‐Accreditation  of  programmes
-­‐IS  journal  rankings  (interesting  in  context  of  CORE  conf  ones!)
-­‐ACIS  update,  AJIS  update  (both  also  interesting  from  an  outsider  perspective)
-­‐An  industry  panel    (very  interesting  esp  as  most  panel  members  were  recruiters  into
consultancies)
-­‐presentation  on  development  of  agreed  learning  outcomes  /  graduate  outcomes  in
the  accounting  and  economics  areas,  leading  to  proposal  for  agreed  InfoSYs  ones
-­‐  very  interesting  indeed  I  found  -­‐  I  wondered  about  us  developing  similar
in  the  CompSci  /  SoftEng  spaces...

Deborah  Bunker  from  Usydney,  the  ACPHIS  president,  used  some  interesting  slides
 from  the  ACDICT  meeting:

http://www.acdict.edu.au/Events.htm

Well  worth  a  careful  look  at  several  of  these  IMO.    I  suggest  (but  not  limited  to):

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Andrew  Norton's  http://www.acdict.edu.au/documents/NortonICTpresentation2-­‐7-­‐14.pdf
(take  with  a  grain  or  three  of  salt…)

Alan  Fekete's  excllent  on-­‐behalf-­‐of-­‐CORE  take:    http://www.acdict.edu.au/documents/Fekete-­‐for-­‐

CORE-­‐ACDICT-­‐2014.pdf
(many  thanks  again  for  attending  /  presenting  Alan!)

Deborah's  InfoSys  perspective:    

http://www.acdict.edu.au/documents/BunkerACDICTPresentation.pdf

ERA  update  from  Tim  @  ARC:    http://www.acdict.edu.au/documents/ERA2015Update.pdf

ARC  stuff  from  Michael  B:    http://www.acdict.edu.au/documents/ARC-­‐College-­‐Perspective-­‐

Blumenstein.pdf

-­‐ACSW  2015  Update

Its  happening.  In  Western  Sydney.    End  of  Jan  2015.  Details:

http://www.uws.edu.au/acsw2015/australasian_computer_science_week_2015

-­‐CORE  banking  /  Spending  CORE  $

More  behind-­‐the-­‐scenes  admin  stuff  I  know.

We  moved  banks  to  get  better  access  and  rate  of  return  on  term  deposits  etc.
Many  thanks  to  Alison  for  all  the  running  around  to  do  this.
Sorry  about  my  slackness  in  signing  forms...

We  have  a  lot  of  $  in  the  CORE  bank  account…  We  have  invested  $10K  towards:
-­‐Doctoral  Symposium  @  ACE  2015
-­‐Doctoral  Symposium  @  ACSW  2015

I  am  open  to  receiving  proposals  to  use  CORE  monies  for  developmental  /  networking
events  for  the  community.    We  of  course  want  to  augment  existing  efforts  /  support
new  efforts  and  provide  support  where  there  isn't  a  realistic  source  from  elsewhere.
Proposals  welcome…    Info  on  making  one  can  be  found  at:

http://www.applesvsoranges.com/documents/CORE%20Activity%20Grants%20Funding.pdf

-­‐ACSW  2015  Heads  &  Prods  meeting

I  am  working  on  a  day  -­‐  *probably*  the  27th  Jan.    Schedule  TBD.      Last  Jan's  one  can
be  found  at:    http://www.core.edu.au/index.php/discussion/2014-­‐agm

I  welcome  suggestions  /  requests  for  what  to  include  /  cover  for  the  coming  meeting.

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best  regards,

John

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Professor  John  Grundy  FASE  FIEAust
Dean,  School  of  Software  and  Electrical  Engineering
Swinburne  University  of  Technology
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