Conference papers

Papers and talks given at conferences and seminars, reproduced from the decks and manuscripts they were delivered from.

16 articles.

Thu Jul 27 2006

Services Oriented Architecture in a Retail Bank (BankTech.06)

The talk I gave at BankTech.06 on embedding SOA in a retail bank, reproduced from the slide deck, including the observation that NAB's ten architecture capabilities described an SOA while carefully avoiding the word.

Thu Jul 27 2006

Mon Aug 08 2005

The Role of Service Oriented Architecture within an Enterprise Architecture

The talk I prepared for The Enterprise Architecture Conference 2005 in Sydney, on where SOA sits inside an enterprise architecture — the March SOA talk grown into a case study of how MLC sold, governed and proof-of-concept-tested its way towards one.

Mon Aug 08 2005

Wed Aug 03 2005

The promise and pitfalls of implementing a Services Oriented Architecture (Microsoft Architect Council)

The Microsoft Architect Council cut of my March 2005 SOA talk - the same deck reopened for twenty-eight seconds that June, the event line changed and the religion slide deleted, and delivered in Sydney on 3 August 2005.

Wed Aug 03 2005

Wed Jun 15 2005

Putting SOA Into Perspective: Hype & Hope vs Reality

The background presentation Kate Behan gave to open an ACS branch forum on SOA in June 2005, before a panel session I sat on — reproduced from her deck, which drew on my earlier SOA talk and closed by handing the room to the panellists.

Wed Jun 15 2005

Tue Mar 15 2005

The promise and pitfalls of implementing a Services Oriented Architecture

A talk I gave at an SOA conference in Sydney in March 2005, arguing that SOA was in danger of being received as one more silver bullet, and that the way to avoid that was to treat it as a religion and go looking for converts.

Tue Mar 15 2005

Tue Jul 13 2004

Selling web services to senior management

The case-study talk I gave in July 2004 as Head of Architecture at MLC, on the journey from hard-to-justify EAI business cases to web services and the architecture that became our SOA — given at a conference the deck does not name.

Tue Jul 13 2004

Thu Sep 18 2003

Getting technology right for advisers

A September 2003 talk on National Wealth Management's technology for financial advisers — the shift to holistic advice, the business system behind it, and AdviserCentral.

Thu Sep 18 2003

Thu Jul 24 2003

Lessons Learnt from implementing and embedding an enterprise architecture team at National Wealth Management

The talk I gave twice in 2003 — Sydney in July, Wellington in November — at BTELL's Enterprise Architecture Conference, on five years of implementing and embedding the architecture team at National Wealth Management, reproduced from the deck the conference CDs distributed.

Thu Jul 24 2003

Thu Aug 14 1997

Electronic Commerce and the Consumer

A 1997 talk on why consumers were hesitating over online shopping, what that meant for bank delivery channels, and the privacy law Australia did not yet have.

Thu Aug 14 1997

Tue Dec 13 1994

Distributed Client/Server Architectures and Transaction Processing on Open Systems

A 1994 conference paper surveying how client/server systems were actually being built on open systems, from remote presentation through to distributed databases, and where transactions fit.

Tue Dec 13 1994

Fri Sep 09 1994

Distributed Client/Server Architectures and Transaction Processing on Open Systems (AUUG'94)

The AUUG'94 conference paper on how client/server systems were actually being built on open systems, from remote presentation to distributed databases, later revised for Oracle OpenWorld.

Fri Sep 09 1994

Mon Sep 27 1993

Performance Tuning for Relational Database Applications

A 1993 AUUG conference paper on finding and fixing bottlenecks in relational database applications on UNIX, with three case studies benchmarking Oracle and Informix across RAID levels and Volume Manager configurations.

Mon Sep 27 1993

Mon Jan 21 1991

UNIX Password Encryption Considered Insecure

Our 1991 USENIX paper showing that DES-based UNIX password encryption could be brute-forced, with an ECL hardware design that encrypted a password in 6 microseconds.

Mon Jan 21 1991

Mon Jan 01 1990

Distributed Computing and Risk Management: the original manuscript

The longer version of our 1990 Optech paper, with the sections SunTech Journal cut, the libraries described one at a time, and the figures as we drew them.

Mon Jan 01 1990

Distributed Computing & Risk Management

Our 1990 SunTech Journal article on hedging the risk in an options book, and the distributed trading system we built at Optech to do it on a network of Sun workstations.

Mon Jan 01 1990

Sun Nov 01 1987

Rubato: A Music Input and Performance System

My 1987 honours thesis at the University of Sydney. A language for writing music down that reads like music rather than like code, and a system that performs it.

Sun Nov 01 1987

Subjects across the conference papers, sized by the number of articles each one appears in. Each one leads to every article on that subject, in whatever category it was filed under.