4 April 2001, Sails, Fishing Boat Harbour, Fremantle, WA 6160

Sponsored by the Australian Telecommunications Cooperative ResearchCentre

The ATCRC was established in July 1999 under the Commonwealth Co-operative Research Centre scheme to provide an environment for developing and commercialising the technologies that will drive the next generation of telecommunications and to educate top quality postgraduate students to respond to the ever changing demands typifying the information age. Core research comprises four key areas in telecommunications: applications, wireless, networking and enabling technologies.

Proposals are invited from postgraduate students, industry and academics in the following areas relative to telecommunications and networking.

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Highlighting the development of robotic aircraft both small and not so small, remotely controlled as well as autonomously flown in Australia and overseas.

In many cases the aircraft will perform the same duties as Lawrence Hargrave's Box Kites did some 100 years ago, the gathering of meteorological data. Being pilotless however and in the case of the Aerosonde, relatively inexpensive and thus expendable, they are ideally suited to be deployed into hazardous situations such as hurricanes, cyclones and social conflict etc.

Aerobotics@Monash | Aerosonde Ltd.

"The world of Television Broadcasting is about to radically change to an entirely new mode. Interactive, High definition (enhanced image & sound quality), Digital Television...The internet has brought about a radical change in our communication culture and information enconomy. In combination with IHDTV these global changes in our TV broadcasting and 'datacasting' will be even more profound and far-reaching...

I predict the initial take up of IHDTV in the home will be impelled by the demands of the computer games and internet literate pre-teenagers who wish to explore (and make) a theatrical scale INTERACTIVE experience. They are the interactive media literate datacast generation...The date for the changeover in Australia is legislated for January 1, 2001."

Professor John Bird
Monash University

Visioneering the Future