Big Brother Google

19 September 2007

Roger Clarke

Google is increasingly being perceived as the company that will follow IBM and Microsoft in dominating the IT industry. In this presentation, Professor Clarke will outline the many business lines that Google is endeavouring to build, and then focus on what has become the major part of its business - knowing a lot about people.

Broad Topics: Engineering and Information Technology

Sub-topics: Economics, Engineering, Information, Computing & Communication Sciences

Areas: ANU College of Engineering and Computer Science

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From 1984-95, Roger Clarke was Reader in Information Systems in the ANU Department of Commerce. Since then he has been back in full-time consultancy through his company, Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd. His main focus is on strategic and policy aspects of eBusiness, information infrastructure, ‘dataveillance’ and privacy.

He has retained his connections with academe as a Visiting Fellow in the ANU Department of Computer Science (1995-2005) and as an Adjunct Professor from April 2005. He is also a Visiting Professor in eCommerce at the University of Hong Kong (2002-), and a Visiting Professor in Cyberspace Law & Policy at UNSW (2003-). He has also undertaken Gastprofessur at the Universities of Bern (Switzerland) and Linz (Austria), and been a Gastdozent at the European Business School and the University of Koblenz (both in Germany).

Part of the 2007 Toyota-ANU Public Lecture Series