Wollongong farewells Australia's first female professor of IT
Aug 22, 2003
A farewell event held at the University of Wollongong yesterday (Thursday 21 August) for the University's Dean of the Faculty of Informatics, Professor Joan Cooper, who has taken up a new challenge at Flinders University. Professor Cooper, credited with leading the faculty to a position of being held in high esteem across the world, has taken up the position of Pro Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at Flinders University. Professor Cooper was the Head of the School of Information Technology and Computer Science from 1997-2001, Head of Information and Communication Technology from 1991-1997, and has more than 20 years' experience within the Information Technology field. As the foundation Professor of Information Technology at the University of Wollongong, Professor Cooper was also the first female IT professor in Australia. As well, she is the co-ordinator of the Centre for Electronic Business Research and her most recent work is in Electronic Commerce and Health Informatics. Professor Cooper said that she would not only miss the University and Wolllongong campus but the great lifestyle of the Illawarra. The University's Vice-Chancellor, Professor Gerard Sutton, commended Professor Cooper on her achievements and wished her well in her new positon at Flinders University. Professor Cooper was Chair of University Senate from July 2000 until her appointment as Dean of Informatics in May 2001 before which she was Deputy Chair of Senate since July 1996 until July 2000. She is a member of the NSW Privacy Advisory Committee, established as part of the NSW Government's Privacy and personal Information Protection Act 1998, and is one of the three founders of Australia' s first inter-University Electronic Commerce research and consulting group - Collaborative Electronic Commerce Technology and Research. She is also the National Deputy Chair of Women in Technology - a special interest group of the Australian Computer Society - from 1999 until 2001.
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