The prize/award winners have
included:
The John Hughes Distingushed
Service Award
- 2007: Karl Reed, La Trobe University
- 2004: Gopal Gupta, Monash University
CORE Teaching Award
- 2007: Harald Søndergaard, The
University of Melbourne
Chris Wallace Research Contribution
Award
- 2006 - Dr Seok-Hee Hong, University of
Sydney

- 2005 - Dr David Hawking, CSIRO
Research Contribution Award
- 2004 - Dr Huaxiong Wang, Macquarie University.
Best PhD Thesis Award - $1000
- 2007- Ajmal Mian "Representations and
Matching Techniques for 3D Free-Form Object and Face Recognition", The
University of Western Australia
- 2007 - Nicholas Geard "Artificial
Ontogenies: A Computational Model of the Control and Evolution of
Development",The University of Queensland
- 2006- Kwong Yuen Lai "Caching
Techniques for Mobile
Computing in Wireless Environments", RMIT University. Supervisors,
Zahir
Tari and Peter Bertok
- 2005 - Caroline Linda
Allinson "Legislative and
Security Requirements of Audit Material for Evidentiary Purpose"
Queensland University of Technology (supervised by Bill Caelli)
- 2005 - Shane
Saunders "Improved Shortest Path
Algorithms for Nearly Acyclic Graphs" University of Canterbury
(supervised by Tadao Takaoka).
- 2004 - James Brusey, Learning
Behaviours for Robot Soccer, RMIT.
Supervisors Lin Padgham
and Vic
Ciesielski.
- 2003 - Carsten Freidrich, Animation in
Relational Information Visualization, University of Sydney.
Supervisor Peter Eades.
- 2002 - Einat Amitay, "What lays in the layout: Using
anchor-paragraph arrangements to extract descriptions of web
documents", Macquarie University. Supervisors Michael Johnson, Cecile
Paris. AbstractThesis
- 2002 - Tao Chen, Monash University, Supervisor Henry
Wu.
- 2001 - Wenny J. Rahayu, "Object-relational Transformation
Methodology", La Trobe University. Supervisors Elizabeth Chang, Tharam
Dillon.
- 2000 - Michael Kolling, "The design of an object-oriented
environment and language for teaching", University of Sydney,
Supervisor John Rosenberg.
- 1999 - Alan Roberts "Routing on Trees Under the Matching
Model" Supervisor Antonios Symvonis
- 1998 - Wendy Feng, "Algorithms for Drawing Clustered
Graphs", University of Newcastle, Supervisor Peter Eades.
- 1997 - Mark Lauer, "Designing Statistical Language
Learners: Experiments on Noun Compounds",
Macquarie University, Supervisors Michael Johnson, Robert Dale. AbstractThesis
- 1996
- Matthew Regan
"Delayed Viewport Mapping and priority
Rendering forVirtual Reality Display System", Monash University and
- 1996 - Roland Yap "The
Design, Programming Methodology and
Implementation of CLP(R)",
Monash University
- 1995 - Mary-Anne Williams
"Transmutations of Knowledge Systems"
University of Sydney
Best Student Paper Award -
$500
- 2007 - Ying Zhao
"Searching with Style: Authorship Attribution in Classic Literature"
RMIT
- 2006 - Scott Vallance
(student) and Paul Calder
"Rendering Multi-Perspective Images with Trilinear Projection" Flinders
University
- 2005 - Casey Chow "Large
Object Segmentation with Region Priority Rendering" from Monash
University
- 2004 - Phung Hua Nguyen (student) and Jingling Xue
"Strength Reduction for Loop-Invariant Types" University
of New South Wales.
- 2003 - Tim Hoad and Justin
Zobel, "Video Similarity Detection for Digital Rights Management",
RMIT.
- 2003 - Anna Buttfield, "A
New Approach to Rapid Image Morphing for Lip Motion Synthesis",
University of Western Australia.
- 2002 - Trent Lewis and
David Powers, "Audio Visual Recognition Using Red Exclusion and Neural
Networks", Flinders University.
- 2001 - Mike Liddell and
Alistair Moffat, "Length-Restricted Coding Based on Modified
Probability Distributions", University of Melbourne.
- 2000 - David Jeffrey, "Type
Classes in Mercury", University of Melbourne.
- 1999 - Richard Lin, Kim
Marriott and Peter Stuckey, "Flexible Font-Size Specifications in Web
Documents".
- 1998 - Mao Lin Hoang, Peter
Eades and Junhu Wang, "Online Animated Graph Drawing using a Modified
Spring Algorithm", University of Newcastle.
- 1997 - Anish Mathuria,(student) Reihaneh Safavi-Naini
and Peter Nickolas "Causality, partial orders, and lower
bounds on rounds for a class of authentication protocols" University of
Wollongong
- 1996 - David Channon
(student),
David Koch and Michael Hannaford "TSF: An Object Oriented Address
Translation
Simulation Framework" University of Newcastle
- 1996 - Steve Fenwick and
Chris Johnson "A
Cost-Based Approach to Performance Analysis of Distributed Object
Stores" ANU
- 1996 - David Hulse
(student) and Alan
Dearle "A Log-Structured Persistent Store" University of Adelaide