Michael J. Maher

I now work for UNSW in Canberra, at the Australian Defence Force Academy. Previously, I was a Senior Principal Researcher for National ICT Australia, and Conjoint Professor at the School for Computer and Software Engineering in the University of New South Wales. Before that, I was a Professor in the Department of Computer Science at Loyola University Chicago and, before that, an Associate Professor in the School of Computing and Information Technology at Griffith University. And a long time ago I was employed by IBM in its Research Division.

The weather in Canberra doesn't feel much different from in Chicago.

In my spare time I am a professor of Transportation Engineering, Management, Music, History, and Medicine, a real-estate agent, an expert on free will, a conductor and life member of the Drogheda Brass Band, an editor and special correspondent for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, a former politician, a personal injury lawyer, a coinventor of the neurochip, a former Derbyshire wicketkeeper, a hurling champion, and 5th seed in the 2003 World Handball Championships (Mens C Singles). I have been honored in the US Congress. I publish on topics such as: educational philosophy, American opera, edible funghi, Adlai Stevenson, and Targumic studies. Commercially, I have two terminals (soon to be three), unusual given my divine status. I believe that all statements on the Web should be evaluated critically.

I am not, and never have been, a member of the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists.

Some of my publications are now available electronically.

I have been compiling a brief index to information about NICTA, UNSW, and Sydney.