Ipswich takes more than one bite of the apple

Two academics from The University of Queensland Ipswich Campus are among 20 nationwide who have won scholarships to attend the upcoming Apple Computer World Wide Developer Conference (WWDC).

Ann Morrison and Matthew Simpson from the School of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering (ITEE) will join 18 other academics from around Australia in securing scholarships from the Apple University Consortium (AUC) to attend the Conference, to be held in San Francisco in August.

Ipswich ITEE postgraduate student Jamie Madden has also taken a bite of the Apple scholarship pool, winning one of 20 national student scholarships, having attended WWDC on a AUC student scholarship in 2002 as an undergraduate student.

The University of Queensland has won six of the 20 national AUC scholarships for the Conference, which provides technical information on Apple technologies as well as access to Apple engineers.

The next version of Apple’s operating system, Mac OS X Leopard, will be previewed at the WWDC.

In addition to the Conference scholarships, Ann Morrison will join Simon Wilson from the School in receiving a local AUC scholarship.

Information Technology Program Director Dr Margot Brereton said the University’s success in the WWDC scholarship round built on success in the AUC grant round earlier this year.

She said three ITEE researchers at the Ipswich Campus were awarded the largest Apple University Developer Fund grant for 2006, and the University had the equal highest success rate nationally.

For more information about the Bachelors of Information Technology and Multimedia Design at the Ipswich Campus, telephone 3381 1122, email contact@infenv.itee.uq.edu.au or visit
http://www.infenv.itee.uq.edu.au/

Media: Contact Loretta Porche on 3381 1068 or 0421 587 278.