Associate Professor John Hurst
President of the Academic Board
John Hurst joined Monash in 1987 and has been an Associate Professor since 1994. His research interests include programming languages and software engineering, particularly in the areas of persistence, compiler construction, literate programming, document technologies, and, most recently, computing education.
He recently held the position of Associate Dean (Teaching) for the Faculty of Information Technology, an administrative position responsible for the standards and quality of teaching within the faculty, and is active in promoting the role of document technologies in supporting the university's teaching quality goals. During his term as Associate Dean (Teaching), he implemented the Monash Avatar (now known as MonAtar), a web-based system that enables academics to maintain up-to-date unit logistics and provides a single-point repository for all teaching-related administrative detail. This system has subsequently enabled paperless meetings of Faculty Education Committee and Faculty Board.
He is co-leader of a research group called the Computing Education Research Group (CERG), which has undertaken several significant research projects. The most significant of these was an investigation into best practice and innovation in IT and CT, funded by the Australian Universities Teaching Commission for $300,000 over two years. Currently he leads the PIAVEE project, which is investigating "pedagogically agnostic" e-learning systems.
Associate Professor Hurst holds a Bachelor of Science degree and a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Adelaide, and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of New South Wales. He also completed a Graduate Certificate in Higher Education at Monash during his term as Associate Dean (Teaching). Prior to coming to Monash, he was a lecturer at the Australian National University, where he worked on microprogrammed high-level architectures for the Burroughs B1700/1800 series computers and implemented the JAS operating system for that architecture.
He spent a sabbatical at the University of Manchester, England, where he worked on software for the MU6 operating system, and two sabbaticals at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, where he worked on persistent programming. In 1991, he was seconded to the Peninsula School of Computing at Monash, where he started the process of developing the research profile of previously research-inactive staff.
He has published more than 60 research papers and is a member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS), Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) professional societies.
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Contact
Clayton School of Information Technology
Room 199, Building 75
Clayton Campus
Ph: +61 3 9905 5192
Fax: +61 3 9905 5146
Email: ajh@csse.monash.edu.au
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