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RESUME - Steve Goschnick
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Publications:
Steve Goschnick (2012). Automating the TANDEM Design Method in End-User Programming Environments, International Journal of People-Oriented Programming, 2(1),IGI Publishing, USA, pp.16-52.
Steve Goschnick (2012). Editorial/Preface, International Journal of People-Oriented Programming, 1(2), IGI Publishing, USA.
Steve Goschnick & Sandrine Balbo (2011). Editorial/Preface, International Journal of People-Oriented Programming, 1(1), IGI Publishing USA.
Steve Goschnick, Liz Sonenberg & Sandrine Balbo (2010). A Composite Task Meta-model as a Reference Model, Human-Computer Interaction, IFIP AICT 332, pp26-38, Springer Berlin (Proceedings, IFIP TC 13 Symposium, HCIS 2010, held as part of World Computer Congress, Sept. 20-23, Brisbane, Australia.
Steve Goschnick (2009). People-Oriented Programming: from Agent-Oriented Analysis to the Design of Interactive Systems, HCI International-2009, Human-Computer Interaction, July 21-24, San Diego, USA. (Mature draft copy available here: http://www.DigitalFriend.org/PeopleOrientedProgramming.pdf ~1.1 MBytes )
Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo & Liz Sonenberg (2008). From Task to Agent-Oriented Meta-models, and Back Again, TAMODIA-2008, Presented at: 7th International workshop on TAsk MOdels and DIAgrams, Sep, Italy.
Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo & Liz Sonenberg (2008). ShaMAN: an Agent Meta-model for Computer Games, HCSE-2008, Presented at: 2nd Conference on Human-Centred Software Engineering, September, Italy.
Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo & Liz Sonenberg (2008). The ShaMAN Agent Meta-model, ATOP-08, Agent-based technologies and applications for enterprise interoperability - a workshop at AAMAS-2008 ( http://eprints.unimelb.edu.au/10187/ ), May, 2008.
Steve Goschnick.(2007) SQL+PaWS: SQL and People as Web Services, SIMTECH 2007, the first International Workshop on Social Interaction and Mundane Technologies (SIMTECH), Nov 26-27, Melbourne, Australia (4 page .pdf ).
Goschnick, S.B.(2006) The DigitalFriend: the First End-User Oriented Multi-Agent System, OSDC 2006, the third Open Source Developers' Conference, Dec 5-8, Melbourne, Australia.
Goschnick, S.B., Balbo, S., Sterling, L. and Sun, C. (2006) TANDEM - a Design Method for Integrating Web Services into Multi-Agent Systems, AAMAS-06, the Fifth Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems, May 8-12, Future University-Hakodate, Japan.
Goschnick, S.B. and Graham, C. (2006) Augmenting Interaction and Cognition using Agent Architectures and Technology Inspired by Psychology and Social Worlds. Universal Access in the Information Society, Volume 4(3), Springer, pp.204-222. (Published online first, 20 Nov 2005)
Balbo, S., Goschnick, S.B., Tong, D. & Paris, C. (2005) Leading Web Usability Evaluations to WAUTER. In Proceedings of the 11th Australian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb), Gold Coast, Australia, 2005.
Jin, T. & Goschnick, S.B. (2005) Utilizing Web Services in an Agent Based Transaction Model, Ch.13, Extending Web Services Technologies: The Use of Multi-Agent Approaches, edited by Lawrence Cavedon, Zakaria Maamar, David Martin and Boualem Benatallah;
Springer,ISBN: 0-387-23343-1.
Murphy J., Howard S., Kjeldskov K. and Goschnick S. (2004) Location, Location, Location:
Challenges of Outsourced Usability Evaluation. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Improving the Interplay between
Usability Evaluation and Interface Design, NordiCHI 2004, Tampere, Finland.
Goschnick, S.B. & Graham, C. (2004). Augmenting Interaction and Cognition
using Agent Architectures and Technology inspired by Psychology and Social Worlds. Proceedings,
8th ERCIM Workshop 2004 "User Interfaces for All", June, Vienna, Austria.
Steve Goschnick, Sandrine Balbo, Derek Tong, Cathy Glen, Tony Chiang, Wendy So & Chi-May Ooi (2004). WEPN – Web Evaluation Path Navigator. Tenth Australian World Wide Web Conference (AusWeb), Gold Coast, Ausrtalia, 2004. This Poster received the 'Best Poster Award' AusWeb-2004.
Goschnick, S.B. & Graham, C. (2003). Supporting Interaction in Mobile
Co-operative Contexts using Agent Technology. Proceedings,
OzCHI-2003, "New Directions in Interaction:
Information Environments, Media and Technology", Nov, Brisbane, Australia.
Steve Goschnick & Leon Sterling (2003). An
Agent-based Digital Self in a 24x7 Web Services World: Architecture
and Implementation. In Proceedings of the IEEE/WIC International
Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology
(IAT 2003), pp 175-181. Halifax, Canada.
Goschnick, S.B. (2003). Enacting an Agent-based
Digital Self in a 24x7 Web Services World. In proceedings of ISMIS 2003, the 14th
Symposium on Methodologies for Intelligent Systems, Maebashi, Japan. Springer LNAI vol. 2871, pp187-196. Version of this paper is available here as a pdf file: GoschnickISMIS-2003.pdf (2340 Kbytes)
Goschnick, S.B. & Sterling, L. (2003). Enacting
and Interacting with an Agent-based Digital Self in a 24x7 Web
Services World. In the proceedings,
Workshop on Humans and Multi-Agent Systems, at the
AAMAS-2003 conference, Melbourne, Australia.
Tao Jin & Steve Goschnick (2003) Utilizing
Web Services in an Agent-based Transaction Model (ABT).
To appear in the Workshop
on Web Services and Agent-based Engineering, at the
AAMAS-2003 conference, Melbourne, Australia. Paper
(in pdf format, 448 Kbytes)
Goschnick, S.B. & Sterling, L. (2002). Psychology-based
Agent Architecture for Whole-of-user Interface to the Web,
Proc. of HF2002 Human Factors Conference: Design for the Whole
Person - Integrating Physical, Cognitive and Social Aspects, Melbourne,
Nov. 2002.
Poster (in pdf format) /Short paper.
Goschnick, S.B. (2001). Shadowboard: an agent
architecture for enacting a sophisticated digital self,
Thesis, The University of Melbourne (Department of Computer Science
& Software Engineering), 199 pages, Sep. 2001. [Supervisor: Professor Leon Sterling]
Steve Goschnick and Leon Sterling (2001). Shadowboard:
an Agent-oriented Model-View-Controller (AoMVC) Architecture for
a Digital Self, Proc. International Workshop on Agent
Technologies over Internet Applications (ATIA'2001), Tamkang University,
Taipei, Taiwan, Sep 2001. (We received 'Best Paper Award' for
this paper).
S.B. Goschnick (2000).
Shadowboard: A Whole-Agent Architecture that draws Abstractions from Analytical Psychology
(this links to an 800KBytes .pdf file), Proc. PRIMA 2000, Melbourne, Aug 2000.
S.B. Goschnick, S.B. (2000). ShadowBoard:
Revisiting the individual in MAS. Technical
Report TR2000/6, Dept. of Computer Science & Software Engineering,
University of Melbourne, May 2000.
S.B. Goschnick (1998). 'Design
and Development of Melbourne IT Creator - a System for
Authoring and Management of Online Education', TOOLS
Pacific 98, Melbourne, 23-27th November, 15 pages.
Cassin, A. and Goschnick, S.B. (1998). System
Requirement Specification for Melbourne IT Creator Metadata Agent.
Melbourne IT Internal Report, pp.23, July’98.
S.B. Goschnick (1992). An Object Lesson in
OOP - A General Board Game Class, at ASD'92, the 1st
Australian Software Developers Conference, Sydney, 25-27th November.
S.B. Goschnick (1992). Comparison of OOP
Features, Borland C++ and Turbo PASCAL. ASD'92, Sydney,
25-27th Nov.
S.B. Goschnick (1988). The GoSCREENS System.'Proceedings of CHISIG (Computer Human Interface Special Interest
Group of the Ergonomics Society of Australia) Annual Seminar/Workshop,
Monash University, Nov. pp. 1-12.
S.B. Goschnick (1984). DBMS (Data Base Management
Systems) in Research Project Management. Proceedings
of the Australian Computing Conference, Sydney, Nov. pp 179-191.
S.B Goschnick (1983). Research in Progress:
ARTEMIS – The Application of a Database Management
System to Research Project Reporting at ARRB. Australian
Road Research, 13(3), September 1983. Pp226-233. [Nb: Steve
Goschnick - In Profile, p242, same issue of Australian Road Research].
K.G. Sharp, P.J. Armstrong, S.B. Goschnick &
S. Buffington (1984). The performance of a Heavily-Trafficked
Concrete Block Pavement at the Shire of Flinders. Australian
Road Research, Vol. 14 No. 3. pp 149-153.
P. Dumble & S.B. Goschnick (1980). Some
Improvements to Current Practices of Estimating Individual Choice
Models with Existing Data. Proceedings 6 th. Australian
Transport Research Forum, Brisbane, pp 449-480.
S.B Goschnick (1980). The Development of
a Database for Individual Choice Models. ARRB Internal
Report AIR 350-2, 51 pages.
Research Projects:
Current Projects: The following
projects are either in conjunction with or are being pursued at
the Dept of Information Systems, the University of Melbourne:
- Orchestrating Web Services (See Jin Tao under research students
below).
- Personal Decision Support Systems.
- Agent-oriented Interface Systems (in conjunction with Solid
Software Pty Ltd).
- Preference-aware network-powered auto-path guides: advancing
software agent and learning techiques to guide ITC users by
their personal preferences and needs. Student team completed: The WEPN (Web Evaluation of Path Navigation) Project - which won 'Best Computer Science Project' for the Year, 2003.
- Harvesting User Context as Computational Constraints and Terms.
- Internationalisation and Localisation (I18n and L10n).
Recent Completed Research Students:
Jin Tao - Research Masters - Orchestrating Web
Services Drawing upon Distributed Database Transaction Models.
Sally Lane - Honours - User Interfaces for Navigating Information Hierarchies.
Recent Seminars/Presentations Given:
11 May 2005: Guest lecture to
433-862 - Intelligent Software Agents: Masters level subject,
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering, University
of Melbourne.
25 Mar 2005: Presentation to Agents-VIC meeting.
29 Oct 2004: Userfriendly Orchestration of Web Services is the Broadband Killer-App.
Seminar Series, Department of Information
Systems, University of Melbourne.
26 July 2004: Evaluating your current technology: What technology do you need in place to facilitate your web services strategy.
Application Integration Using Web Services Conference, Ark Group Pty Ltd, Sydney.
1 Nov 2002: Visualisation and the Shadowboard Interface.
Interaction Design Group Seminar, Department of Information
Systems Seminar Series, University of Melbourne.
25 Oct 2002: Enhancing
the User Experience in a 24x7 Web Services World: an Agent-based
Digital Self (links to a .pdf). Department of Information
Systems Seminar Series, University of Melbourne.
22 Oct 2002: Shadowboard:
a Psychology-based Agent Architecture and Visual Interface.
Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering Seminar
Series, University of Melbourne.
Recent Conference / Workshop Program Committee Memberships:
IUI 2006: International Conference
on Intelligent User Interfaces: http://www.iuiconf.org/
IAT 2005: Intelligent Agent Technology: http://www.hds.utc.fr/IAT05/news/
SOCABE 2005: The Workshop on Service-Oriented Computing and Agent-Based Engineering at AAMAS-2005.
WSABE 2004: Workshop on Web Services and Agent Based Engineering.
WSABE 2003: Workshop on Web Services and Agent Based Engineering.
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Currently Teaching / Recently Taught (University
of Melbourne):
2005, 2004, 2003 (both semesters): 615-570 Database
Systems and Information Modelling within the Dept of Information
Systems, the University of Melbourne.
2004: 615-240 Concepts in Software Development 2
within the Dept of Information Systems, the University
of Melbourne.
2004, 2003: 615-230 Database
Concepts within the Dept of Information Systems, the University
of Melbourne.
1998, 1999: 433-371 Interactive
Systems Design within the Dept of Computer Science & Software
Engineering, the University of Melbourne.
Tertiary:
Postgraduate: M.Eng.Sc.(Comp. Sc.)
- Master of Engineering Science (Computer) by Research, University
of Melbourne, 2002. I was the recipient of an Australian Research
Council/DEETYA SPIRT / APA(I) research award for this study.
Subjects:
- 433 618 - M.Eng.Sc. Thesis: H1 (First class honours)
- 433 682 - Software Agents: H1
- 433 630 - Advanced Artificial Intelligence Applications: H1
Graduate: B.E. - Bachelor of Engineering,
Monash University, 1978.
Short Courses Taken:
- Attended a 5-day Microsoft certified course titled ‘Application
Development with MS SQL Server V6.5’, in Oct’97,
given by Auldhouse Training P/L.
- Attended ‘Fundementals of Distributed Object Computing’
training course, given by Object Oriented P/L, Nov‘97.
- Attended Marketing Your Product TAFE short-course Mar’89.
- I attended a course in the C Language for Programmers
given by Technisearch in November 1986, and programmed in that
language up until moving to the C++ language in Nov'89.
- I attended a course in 'Communications and Networking
at the Chisholm Institute of Technology in 1986.
- I attended a course in Data Base Technology at the
Caulfield Institute of Technology in 1981.
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Current Positions:
2005-Present: PhD Student,
University of Melbourne.
Dec'2000-Present: Senior Research
Fellow, University of Melbourne.
1986-Present: CEO, Solid
Software Pty Ltd. See web-site at: http://www.solidsoftware.com.au.
Positions Held Previously:
Dec'2000-Dec'2004: Research
& Business Manager, IDEA Lab, Dept of Information Systems,
University of Melbourne. A state-of-the-art Usability Lab.
See web-site at: http://idealab.dis.unimelb.edu.au/
June 2000-Dec 2001: Honourary
Fellow, Department of Computer Science & Software Engineering,
University of Melbourne.
May'97-May'98: Project Manager,
developed Melbourne IT Creator V1 - a customisable multimedia
integrated learning environment and authoring tools. Note:
I signed on for a 1 year contract, to build up a programming team
and develop the V1, for which I had earlier done the Analysis
and Design via a 3-week contract in Jan’97. Melbourne IT
Pty Ltd. I hired 12 programmer/software engineers and built them
into an effective, cohesive and productive team. The Beta copy
of V1 was completed on time, whereafter it was handed to a Product
Manager for market readiness.
Semester 2, '98 and '99: Lecturer. Co-developed
and co-lectured a third year subject: 433-371 - Interactive System
Design. Dept of Computer Science, University of Melbourne.
With Professor Liz Sonenberg, now head of Dept. Information Science,
University of Melbourne.
13/09/88-20/03/89: Australian
Road Research Board, Computer Centre, Manager
of Distributed Systems (CSO 3(3)).
6/2/86-13/03/88: Australian
Road Research Board, Computer Centre, Manager
of Microcomputing and Networking, (CSO 3).
9/2/84-8/2/85: State Electricity
Commission of Victoria, Forecasting and Tariffs Department, Analyst/Programmer,
(E 2(4)).
24/9/80-9/2/84: Australian
Road Research Board, Computer Centre, Analyst Programmer,
(CSO 1(1) - 1(5)).
9/2/79-24/9/80: Australian
Road Research Board, Transport Department, Experiment
Officer (EO 1(2)).
Selected Contracts:
Oct'2002+: Analysis, Design and development
of the GlobalEd data-driven web-site.
2002: Ongoing Java development of
Motion Workshop - a project utilising Quicktime in Java.
Dec'2001: Feasibility Study for redevelopment
of the web-site of the Deptment of Information Systems, University
of Melbourne.
July'2000+: Analysis and Design of
project for Melbourne University Private.
Oct'99: For NeverNever Net P/L. Website
database backend Analysis, Design and initialisation SQL procedures,
for National Trust (Victoria) website.
Jan'97: For Melbourne IT P/L. Senior
Analyst, Analysis and Design for CMILE (a virtual
university Internet system, later developed at Melbourne IT
P/L, then a commercial arm of the University of Melbourne.
I used the Booch OOA/D methodology (Jan’97). After a prototype
was built, I became Project Manager to implement the system, later
called Melbourne IT Creator, which was done by hiring 12
programmers and software engineers.
April-May''95: For Mincad Systems Pty Ltd.
Analysis and Programming PADS V2 I wrote V2 enhancements
to PADS - Pavement Analysis and Design System. Language used:
Visual BASIC V3 under Windows V3.1. Referee: Dr. Leigh Wardle,
Mincad Systems.
BranchOut (92/94): I developed
Branch-Out in C++ - a multi-media, multicultural adventure game,
for the Office of Multicultural Affairs, when it was still a part
of the Department of the Prime Minister. The project consisted
of 55,000 lines of C++, hundreds of icons and graphics files,
and several databases of cultural information. Solid Software
won the contract to develop and market the game, after my concept
called Branch-Out won a competition - the challenge was put to
all Australian games companies at the time - for an innovative
multicultural adventure game.
SlimWinX/XSpaces (91/92): I
wrote SlimWinX in C++. It consists of 15,000+ lines of original
source code, over and above the underlying GTO (Graphics, Text
and Objects - includes the XSpaces system) system code, which
is used for graphic windows on a DOS PC.
2003 Sep 28-Oct 1: I was invited (by the AUC) and gave
one-day workshop called 'Jump-start to Java on Max OSX' to the
Apple University Consortium Academic and Developers Conference,
University of Adelaide, Adelaide.
2002, Sep 24-25: I developed and gave a 2-day course titled
Jump-start
to Java on Mac OSX, at the IDEA Lab, Dept of Information Systems,
the University of Melbourne.
2002 Feb 12-13: I developed and gave a two-day 'Jump-start
to Java' course for the Summer School programme of the University
of Melbourne.
I developed and a series of lectures on Java, Java Swing, Web
Design and Web Tools to 3rd year students in 1999 and 1998,
Dept of Computer Science, University of Melbourne.
I was contracted to prepare and present a 2 day 'C Language'
course by Victorian TAFE (Technical And Further Education) colleges,
for their computer language teachers throughout the state, to
become skilled in C language usage. Presented 30/11/89-01/12/90.
I presented it again on request for Australian Road Research Board
15/05/90 and 17/05/90, and also to programmers at Ferntree Computer
Corporation 18/03/91 and 20/03/91.
1989: I have given a 6 month course for the Certificate
of Business Studies (Microcomputing) at the Lilydale TAFE college.
1989: I have given short courses in MS-DOS, Lotus 1-2-3
and DBASE at the Outer Eastern College of TAFE in Melbourne.
pre-1989: While a member of the ARRB (Australian Road
Research Board) Computer Centre, I prepared and gave inhouse seminars/courses
on the following topics (in chronological order):
- An Introduction to DBMS
- An Introduction to SQL
- Relational Database Concepts
- Advanced File Structures
- System Analysis and Data Normalisation
- An Introduction to the IBM PC and PC-DOS
- Fortran 77
- SPSS (a statistical package), Advanced Features
- An Overview of the Apple Macintosh
- An Introduction to Lotus 123
I presented several public seminars at the ARRB in the early
1980's on relational database issues including the importance
of the ANSI database language SQL.
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I am currently coding The Digital Self Project
- a state-of-the-art software agent system - here at Solid Software,
in Java 2 (JDK1.4.2). It is currently in excess of 50,000 lines
of code. It will be available for public release early in the
first half of 2005.I.e. The release is imminent.
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I am Expert in the C++ and C languages
(including hand-coding 70,000 lines of C++ in SlimWinX +
BranchOut).
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Via my expertise in object-oriented programming
in general and C++ in particular, I moved rapidly into the JAVA
language, starting with a substantial Applet (uses sub-windows,
video buffering, animation, vector graphics, text display, panels
of buttons, etc ) in March 1997, viewable in any Java-enabled
browser at: http://www.solidsoftware.com.au/I_Ching/I_Ching.html.
Via that experience with the troublesome AWT class library,
I moved rapidly to Java's crossplatform Swing interface library
in Java 2, which I've since taught at University of Melbourne,
as an introduction to Interactive System Design.
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I programmed a significant project in Java
2 (JDK 1.2) called CLS - a Concept Learning System, which
animates an algorithm as the program builds a decision tree
via the users selection of field in a table of data. See interface
at: http://www.solidsoftware.com.au/Services/index.html#programming
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I am proficient in the following computer programming
languages: Object PASCAL(DELPHI), Visual BASIC, Fortran 77,
SQL, BASIC, PLI & COBOL - having completed at least one
major project in each of them.
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I have done major work in the Data Base Management
Systems in SQL. I’ve also implemented less substantial
systems in PC database packages DBASE and M/S ACCESS.
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I am proficient in the use of the major statistical
analysis packages, SPSS and SAS.
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I am proficient in the use of HTML V4 - enough
to do this web-site.
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I am a proficient user of numerous software productivity
tools including: Microsoft Word; Excel; Lotus 1-2-3 (I've received
royalty payments on one of my spreadsheet macros - seriously);
MS SQL Server; MS Project; Visio; DreamWeaver, ED for Windows;
Visual Studio; Borland J Builder; and others.
- I work primarily on a Mac OSX laptop, a Windows desktop and
a Linux server.
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Commercial software I’ve personally written which
is published by Solid Software Pty Ltd:
- The Digital Self Project, an agent-oriented
system which is an implementation of the Shadowboard Agent Architecture,
currently being written in the Java language. This project received grant funding from the 'TELSTRA Broadband Fund' during 2004. It was amongst a shortlist of 13 projects to receive such funding from over 300 project proposals. Status: Completed. Release date: Sep, 2005.
- SG_Board,
a 2D board-game engine. This is downloadable for free - its written
in Java and has recently being release as an Open Source
project.
Figure 1: Demo Application using the SG_Board 2D game engine.
- CLS,
a Concept Learning System.
- I Ching,
a browser-hosted Applet written in 100% JAVA JDK V1.02 - which means it continues to run in most Browsers.
- SlimWinX, an event-driven object-oriented windowing
system, consisting of 15,000 lines of OOA/D’ed C++ code.
- BranchOut, a multi-media, multicultural adventure
game which operated on MS/DOS VGA systems, consisting of 55,000
lines of object-oriented C++ code.
- Lottocheck
INFORM V2 for Windows, programmed in C++
- Curator,
in Graphic Gallery for Windows, in C++
- Octadial,
a Logic-puzzle game written in C++.
Figure 2: Octadial V2 Interface.
Curator is a library manager for graphics backdrops/wallpapers
to MS WINDOWS. This program was released August 1992 within a
package called Graphic Gallery for WINDOWS, by the Australian
publisher, Dynamo House P/L. In the US, publishing rights have
been taken up by the company Lifeboat Associates, a division
of Voyager Software Corp. Solid Software has since taken
over rights and stock of Graphic Gallery for Windows.
Graphic Gallery was a concept devised by Solid Software.
Curator is written in the C language. It consists
of about 8,000 lines of source code which is adapted from the
Seetree (program below) code.
Lottocheck
INFORM V2 for Windows.
A much enhanced version of an earlier DOS program
- this Windows V3.1 program was developed in a 3 month period
leading up to Jan’95. It is still marketed by Solid Software.
The purpose of it is two fold: to educate the mathematically naive
about the remote chances of winning lotto games via empirical
access to the whole history of past numbers and dividends paid;
to enhance the fun and enjoyment of those players who already
know and appreciate the remote chances they are up against.
Lottocheck INFORM for Windows is written
in M/S Visual C++ making extensive use of the MFC class library.
It consists of over 5,000 lines of original source code.
We consider our marketing an example in responsible
marketing of a product servicing a legitimate need in the Home
market, in an market-segment otherwise prone to exaggeration and
much worse.
OCTADIAL
Octadial is a graphical puzzle-logic game
for the IBM PC with EGA or VGA graphics cards. Marketed in Australia
from Nov'90.
Octadial is written in the C++ language. It consists
of some 4,000 line of original source code, and uses every available
object oriented feature of the C++ language. (It began as an exercise
in the C++ language, but quickly became a finished and marketable
product, due to the productivity available through that language.)
There are tentative plans to do a much expanded Octadial for Windows
95 and the Internet, but it is currently low priority.
SEETREE
Seetree is a DOS Shell and File Manager for
the IBM PC and compatible’s. Marketed July'1988-Dec’1993,
mainly towards the corporate and education markets. Single copy
sales: exceed 450 copies. Site Licenses: "100+ Copy Licences"
were sold to: Curtin University (WA); ARRB (VIC); ACI Computer
Services (VIC); NSW Education Department (have a state-wide licence);
NSW State Rail Authority; NSW Department of TAFE; Sydney Water
Board; Monash Medical Centre; Legal Aid Commission of VIC and
the ANZ Bank (VIC).
There is current work going on to place the Seetree
code into the graphical environment of our SlimWinX technology,
which we are targeting for a Technology sale to an Internet Machine/laptop
manufacturer.
Seetree is written in the C language. It consists
of over 15,000 lines of original source code.
LOTTOCHECK
V1 for DOS
Lottocheck V1, a lotto database storage and analysis
system, for MS/DOS based IBM PC, aimed squarely at the domestic
home/games market. This program aims to graphically educate the
layman about the remote odds of winning such games. Marketed
Jan'88-Jan’91. Single copy sales: over 2000 in Australia,
some to schools. It has many enthusiastic users. LOTTOCHECK was
translated to French for the French LOTO game, in conjunction
with a French company called IBL.
Lottocheck is written in the Turbo PASCAL language.
It consists of about 6,000 lines of original source code, including
state-of-the-art, user-friendly screen-input forms. There was
also an earlier Commodore-64 version, before the DOS version,
written in G-PASCAL.
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Melbourne IT CREATOR V1.0 (1998).
Project Manager, a Customisable multimedia integrated learning
environment, with authoring tools. Note: I signed on for a 1
year contract, to build up a programming team and develop the
V1 after doing the Analysis and Design via a 3-week contract
in Jan’97. Creator V1.0.1 was achieved on target, 01/03/98.
The team numbered 12 software engineers when the product was
handed over for testing, market turning and production. Creator
Referee: Lex MacArthur, CEO, ADI - Australian Distributed Incubator
(formerly, Marketing and Business Manager, Melbourne IT).
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SIDMAN (1988). I wrote SIDMAN as
a PC based user-friendly interface program to SIDRA, a traffic
management program written earlier for mainframes computers,
by Mark Besley and Rhamai Ackcelik, both Traffic Research scientists
at the ARRB. The two complementary programs are sold together
as a package internationally by the ARRB, to consultants, traffic
engineers and universities. Sales have exceeded 150, in 23 countries
- last time I looked.
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GENSEL (1984). GENSEL provides GENeral
purpose SELection of data from the SECV customer database. It
is used for tariff modelling and SECV budget balancing. The
specification for this program had two very tight and opposing
objectives: Firstly, to access the Commissions annual archive
of customer billings, typically containing 13 million records
each. The annual archives are stored on magnetic tape (a much
slower medium, then hard disk). Secondly: The users requests
of the program, were to be wide and varied and largely unpredictable
in the future. My solution was to write a highly optimised program
in PL/1, that was driven from a very flexible command file of
options. The user options can be added together like the phrases
of a sentence, thus giving a flexible range of possibilities.
GENSEL was used at the SECV there on almost a daily until the
utility was privatised. Gensel Referee: David Lukies, Manager,
Business Planning, Powercor Australia (formerly Tariffs and
Forecasting Manager, SECV).
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ARTEMIS (1982-3). ARTEMIS was the
first large scale system I wrote. It was a system for the management
of research projects, particularly for the ARRB. Much of the
information stored in it was text-based: project aims, progamme
statements, progress statements, project findings, publication
abstracts, technical committee recommendations, directors decisions,
etc. The push button reports that printed out from ARTEMIS,
were draft sections of annual reports, technical committee agendas,
collected volumes of research, and publication abstracts which
eventually found their way into the International Road Research
Document (IRRD), as a part of Australia’s obligations within
the OECD. I wrote a conference paper on the experience, cited
above. Artemis Referee: Dr Max Lay, Chairman, RACV (formerly
Executive Director, ARRB).
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Computer Modelling of Ballarat Transport
Network (1979): I built up a simulated mathematical
model of the road, rail and tram network in Ballarat, as it
was in 1970. It simulated the movement of vehicles along those
routes, to establish travel times. This was to synthesise missing
data in a research project based on Individual Choice Modelling.
The simulated travel information, was combined with complementary
actual data from the 1970 Household Interview Survey (HIS) data,
for that city, and then passed into sophisticated statistical
programs for analysis. See Research Paper cited above.
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JAVA and C++ are my current computer languages of
choice, programming in Java since December ’96, and in object-oriented
C++ since 1989. I was so impressed by the revolution that OOP
represented, that I wrote a series of three articles on the virtues
of C++ for Your Computer magazine in 1990. The primary
objective was to awaken Australian software developers to the
great potential in Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in general,
and in C++ in particular. From those initial led a number of unsolicited
commissions for more article about programming and software development.
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I was commissioned to write a series of 4 articles
as an Introduction to Programming for beginners for the
Australian PC USER magazine beginning in June 91 issue.
I also contributed to Your Computer magazine in 1991, on
the Object Oriented Programming (OOP) in general and C++ in particular.
S.B. Goschnick (1991). 'Programming Part IV:
The User Interface and Top-down Design.' Aust. PC User
magazine, pp.61-64,97-102, Oct'91.
S.B. Goschnick (1991). 'Programming Part III:
Are You Suited to Programming?' Aust. PC User magazine,
pp.46-52, July 1991.
S.B. Goschnick (1991). 'Programming Part II:
Making a Start.' Aust. PC User magazine, pp.90-99,
July 1991.
S.B. Goschnick (1991). 'Programming Part I: Choosing
Your Tools.' Aust. PC User magazine, pp.56-74, June
1991.
S.B. Goschnick (1991). 'C++
- A Language of Liberation.' Your Computer magazine,
Sep'91, pp82-88.
S.B. Goschnick (1991). 'C++
Programming - Putting Large Projects Back in the Hands of a Few
People.' Your Computer magazine, Aug'91, pp74-81.
S.B. Goschnick (1991). 'Multi-user Business
System.' Your Computer magazine, pp 37-41, July 1991,
The Federal Publishing Company, NSW.
S.B. Goschnick (1990). 'The
C++ Language - A Cornerstone of the 90's.' Your Computer
mazagine, Dec. pp 64-72, The Federal Publishing Company, NSW.
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In early 1993, I was approached to write a weekly
column in The Computer Age, by the then editor, Charles
Wright (Tuesday section of The AGE newspaper). Between Feb'93
and Oct'93 I wrote 40 articles which were published in
my Code Cutters weekly column. Some have ongoing
relevance and are online
here.
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On request to write opinions on the computer industry
with an Australian perspective, I have had the following editorial
pieces published.
'Opinion' - The future of employment in the computing
industry’. Aust. PC USER magazine, December 1992 issue,
p5.
'Opinion - If we are Fit to Run a Country.'
A view as to why small software development companies can and
should be successful in Australia. Aust. PC USER magazine, July
1992 issue, p.6.
'Opinion' - On developing horizontal market products
in Australia’. Aust. PC USER magazine, March 1992 issue,
p.6.
'Opinion' - On Australian inventiveness and the
need to match it with quality’. Aust. PC USER magazine,
January 1992 issue, p.6.
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ABC RADIO 3LO, Terry Lane Show (Melbourne, Sydney,
Hobart, Newcastle), Wednesday 19/08/92, 12 minutes on: the Australian
Industry; Australian Governments efforts to date; ASPA Inc; and
the future direction of software and content.
RADIO 3AK, with Graham Paton, 3/09/92, 12 minutes.
ABC RADIO 4QR, Lifestyles segment with Chris Welsh,
04/10/92 (prerecorded 24/09/92), 13 minutes.
RADIO 3RRR, Einstein a Go Go segment, with John
Merakowski, 04/10/92, 17 minutes on: Art in software; Australian
success stories; future of software in this country.
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I was a committee member for the Accreditation
of the following TAFE college (Technical and Further Education)
courses (introduced in 1989): Advanced Certificate in Information
Technology, Advanced Certificate in Computer Operations,
Associate Diploma of Computing (Programming), Associate
Diploma of Computing (Microcomputing).
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I was elected as an Associate of The
Australian Computer Society in 1983 and then to full Member
status of the society in 1989.
I was the Founding President of ASPA (Australian
Software Publishers Association Inc.), formed in July 1990 and
incorporated as a non-profit Association on 11/04/91, which had
33 member companies when I left the ASPA in 1995. I remained the
president for the first 3 years, devoting considerable time and
energy to furthering the plight of Australian developed, mass-market
software.
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I have significant interests in Art, Architecture,
AI, Multimedia, Dream Interpretation (the language of the mind),
and also Psychology initially sparked by my growing children.
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I have travelled in Australia, New Zealand, Japan,
England, Wales, France, Italy, Yugoslavia(1985), Greece, Austria,
Germany, Switzerland, Belguim, the Netherlands, Spain, Scotland,
the USA and Taiwan.
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