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Dr Stewart Von Itzstein

Position: Program Director
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Computer and Information Science
Campus: Mawson Lakes Campus
Office: D2-09
Telephone: +61 8 830 23056
Fax: +61 8 830 23381
Email: Stewart_dot_VonItzstein_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Stewart.VonItzstein



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Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne - Laboratoire des Méthodes de Programmation


Teaching interests

  • User Interface, Compilers, Graphics Programming, Teaching Technologies and E-Learning,Programming Languages
  • Previously I have taught courses in, Network programming, Programming language concepts, User Interface, Computer Systems Architecture, Data structures, C++. I have also taught courses for northern area unemployed to reenter the workforce in IT.

I teach the following courses

INFT 1004User Interfaces
INFT 1006Advanced User Interfaces
COMP 3001CIS Research Placement 1
COMP 3002CIS Research Placement 2
COMP 4030CIS Honours Minor Thesis 1
COMP 4031CIS Honours Minor Thesis 2
COMP 4026Advanced Human Computer Interaction


Professional associations

Member of Systems Architecture and Security Group Primary researcher in languages for concurrency

Member of Electronic Teaching Group

Reviewer for Concurrency and Communication


Qualifications

PhD Information Technology University of South Australia

Bachelor of Computer and Information Science (Honours) University of South Australia


Research interests

  • Concurrent Object Oriented Programming Languages
  • User Interface Design
  • Visualisation

Research publications

Von Itzstein, G, Fursenko, F. Understanding the Motivation of Tertiary Students ICICTE Corfu (2008)

Von Itzstein, G Stewart. Koronios, Andy. Muller, Roman. (2007) 8th International Conference on Computer Based Learning. Heraklion Crete Greece.

Brenton Dansie, Frank Fursenko, Sue Gelade, G Stewart von Itzstein, Kam Wing Li, Kirsten Wahlstron (2007). Intrinsic Student Quality Assessment. Book Chapter Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Assessment. Springer-Verlag

Fursenko, Frank. Von Itzstein, G Stewart. A Framework For Evaluating E-Learning Environments. (2007) 8th International Conference on Computer Based Learning. Heraklion Crete Greece.

Frank Fursenko, Susan Gelade, Brenton Dansie, G. Stewart von Itzstein, Kam Wing Li and Kirsten Wahlstrom. Mapping Tool for matching assessment to Graduate Qualities and to Course Objectives. CBLIS 2005 Conference, 2-7 July 2005, Zilina, Slovakia.

Brenton Dansie, Frank Fursenko, Sue Gelade, G Stewart von Itzstein, Kam Wing Li, Kirsten Wahlstron. Are intrinsic student qualities assessable? Learning from the mapping of trans-national assessment practices in IT degree programs. The First International Conference on Enhancing Teaching and Learning through Assessment. June 2005, Hong Kong.

Fursenko, Frank. Von Itzstein G Stewart. Li, Kam Wing. Moving From Local to Global Teaching: Integrating Appropriate Technologies. Sixth International Conference on Computer-based Learning in Science. Nicosia, Cyprus 2003

Von Itzstein, G. S. (2005). Introduction of High Level Concurrency Semantics in Object Oriented Languages. PhD thesis

Von Itzstein, G. S and Kearney, David (2004). The Expression of Common Concurrency Patterns in Join Java For 2004 International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Processing Techniques and Applications (PDPTA’04)

Hopf, J., Von Itzstein, G. S. & Kearney, D. A., (2003) "Hardware Join Java: A High Level Language For Reconfigurable Hardware Development" International Conference on Field Programmable Technology - Hong Kong

Von Itzstein, G. S and Jasiunas, Mark (2003). On Implementing High Level Concurrency in Java to appear ACSAC (2003). Advances in Computer System Architecture 2003 September Japan. Also published in Springer Verlag Advances Journal.

Von Itzstein, G. S. and Kearney, David (2002). Applications of Join Java. Proceedings of the Seventh Asia Pacific Computer Systems Architecture Conference ACSAC'2002. Melbourne, Australia, Australian Computer Society: 1-20.

Von Itzstein, G Stewart. Vernik, Rudi. Bouchard, Alain. (2007) TTCP C3I Group Technical Panel 2 On Command Information Interfaces. The Technical Cooperation Program. Washington DC USA

Osborne, Grant. Von Itzstein G Stewart. Vernik, Rudi. (2007) A Characterisation Model for Visual Interactive Interfaces. IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation. Zurich Switzerland.

Vernik, Rudi. Von Itzstein G Stewart. Bouchard, Alain. (2007) Imago: An Integrated Prototyping, Evaluation and Transitioning Environment for Information Visualisation. IEEE 11th International Conference on Information Visualisation. Zurich Switzerland.

Von Itzstein, G Stewart (1998). Manifestations of Complex User Interfaces. Minor thesis

Von Itzstein, G, Kearney, David. Join Java: An Alternative Concurrency Semantic for Java ACRC-01-001 (2001)


Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Computer Science

  • Computing
  • Computer Science
  • Compilers
  • Graphic User Interface
  • Disasters in Computing
  • Academic Misconduct
  • Copying/Intellectual Property wrt Software

Community Service

Organisation Name:   Wiley
Section:   Reviewer of Concurrency and Computation Practice and Experience
Level of involvement:   Reviewer of Selected Papers
Year from:   2009

Organisation Name:   Association of Computing Machinery
Section:   ACM Collegiate Programming Competition
Type of Organisation:   Community organisation
Level of involvement:   South Australian Site Director
Year from:   2009
Year to:   2009

Organisation Name:   Association of Computing Machinery
Section:   ACM Collegiate Programming Competition
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Level of involvement:   Judge
Year from:   2003
Year to:   2008

Organisation Name:   Australian User Interface Conference
Section:   Reviewer
Type of Organisation:   Community organisation
Level of involvement:   Reviewer of Selected Papers
Year from:   2005
Year to:   2008

Organisation Name:   Law Firms
Section:   Expert Witness
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Level of involvement:   Expert Witness and Accessor
Year from:   2005
Year to:   2005

Organisation Name:   International Colloquium on Automata, Languages and Programming
Section:   Reviewer
Level of involvement:   Reviewer of Selected Papers
Year from:   2006
Year to:   2006

Organisation Name:   IEEE VR
Section:   Reviewer
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Level of involvement:   Reviewer of Selected Papers
Year from:   2005
Year to:   2005


Research Degree Supervisor

Supervising students in;
- Concurrency
- Human Computer Interaction
- Information Visualisation
- Programming Languages
- Education


Current Projects:

Visualization of Concurrent Programming Structures
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