DC Alliance sponsors ACS Annual Dennis Moore Oration and 1962 Awards Presentation

DC Alliance is proud to be the sponsor of this prestigious event for the second consecutive year, the 10th Annual Dennis Moore Oration. The Oration is named after Dennis Moore, the father figure of computing in Western Australia.

Professor Moore was the first chairman of the WA Computer Society, the Director of the very first computing centre in WA, an executive director of Government Computing, and then appointed foundation Head of School Computing at Curtin University of Technology in 1987.

The ACS 1962 Prize and Medal celebrates the year in which the first digital computer was installed in Western Australia and is sponsored by Dennis Moore FACS. The 1962 Prize is awarded annually to an individual Computing/Information Systems student in Western Australia, the 1962 Medal is awarded to the most outstanding completed Doctoral research (PhD) in Western in the field of Information Technology and Computer Science.

This year we saw the 1962 Prize awarded to not one, but two recipients for the first time since the 1962 Awards commenced in 2011, congratulations to David Adams from the University of Western Australia and Yuval Berman from the University of Western Australia.

The oration topic for this year was “Unchained: Blockchain for Businesses”, presented by Associate Professor Vidy Potdar. Associate Professor Vidy Potdar is the Director of the Blockchain R&D Lab at Curtin University.

Blockchain technology has the potential to transform our economic, social, and environmental landscape as we know it. We are at a tipping point right now where there is a huge shift toward the legitimacy and applicability of this technology. This gives use one of the best opportunities to reimagine our lives our, our economy, and the entire way we interact with each other around the world.

Photos: Jim Owens Photography