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Anderson, Brian David Outram (1941 - )

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Engineer
Born: 15 January 1941  Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Brian David Outram Anderson is Professor of Systems Engineering 1981- and Director, Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering, Australian National University 1994- . He was previously Professor of Electrical Engineering at University of Newcastle.

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Chronology
c. 1955Bachelor of Science in Engineering (BScBE) completed at the University of Sydney
1964Research Assistant at Stanford Electronic Labs, USA
1965Instructor in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University, USA
1966Assistant Professor and Staff Consultant at Vidar Corporation in Mt View, California, USA
1967 - 1975Head of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales
1967 - 1981Professor of the Department of Electrical Engineering at the University of Newcastle, New South Wales
1974 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science (FAA)
1980 - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)
1980 - 1983Council of the Australian Academy of Science
1981 - 1993Professor of Systems Engineering at the Australian National University, Canberra
1986 - 1989Director of Telectronics Holdings Ltd.
1989Fellow of the Royal Society (FRS)
1989 - 1993Prime Minister's Science and Energy Council
1990 - 1993President of the International Federation of Automatic Control
1992 - Chairman of the Advisory Board on Encyclopaedia Britannica
1992Flinders Lecturer at the Australian Academy of Science
1993Officer of the Order of Australia (AO)
1994 - Director of the Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University
1998 - 2002President of the Australian Academy of Science

 
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Modified: 29 January 2007

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