Smart Internet Appoints Dr. Roger Kermode as Director of Innovation and Technology

Sydney - 11 October 2004 - Dr Roger Kermode has been appointed the Director of Innovation and Technology at the Smart Internet Technology Cooperative Research Centre (CRC) - an incorporated joint venture between industry, academia and the Government. Roger has a long standing relationship with Smart Internet, having previously been a member of the Smart Internet Research Advisory Committee and part of the original team that put together the bid for the formation of the CRC.

Prior to joining Smart Internet, Roger spent six years working for Motorola in Chicago and Sydney, where he established and managed the Sydney Communications and Networks Research Laboratory at the Motorola Australian Research Centre. The lab focused on the development of commodity wireless access devices and architectures for scalable media delivery to the home, IP-based public radio networks, IPv6, peer-to-peer, WLAN, MANET, and zero-configuration networking.

Roger has also worked for Telstra's Research Labs and Silicon Graphics Inc. and in 2000, he served on the Prime Minister's Science Engineering Innovation Council Working Group on ICT Research and Development that provided input to Federal Government's "Backing Australia's Ability" policy. Roger has also provided advice to both the NSW and Vic State Governments on ICT policy in addition to acting as an independent observer for the 2004 round of CRC bids.

Roger holds a Master’s and PhD degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Media Lab, where he was a Fulbright Scholar conducting research into content-based video coding and highly scalable media delivery architectures based on IP multicast and distributed caching. Roger also has undergraduate degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Melbourne.

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