Australian Computer Scientists: Neil J. Gunther, Mahinda Pathegama, Gernot Heiser, Charles Leonard Hamblin, Rodney Brooks, Vaughan Pratt

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 25. Chapters: A. Richard Newton, Alan Manly, Alex Fraser (scientist), Allan Bromley (historian), Brendan Gregg, Brendan McKay, Brian Henderson-Sellers, Carlo Kopp, Carroll Morgan (academic), Charles Leonard Hamblin, Chris Wallace (computer scientist), Claude Sammut, Damian Conway, Don Syme, Gernot Heiser, John Lions, John Makepeace Bennett, Lawrie Brown, Leon Sterling, Martin Dougiamas, Michael Georgeff, Neil J. Gunther, Paul Justin Compton, Peter Bernus, Peter Eades, Richard P. Brent, Rodney Brooks, Rod Downey, Rod Johnson (programmer), Ross Williams (computer scientist), Terry Halpin, Toby Walsh, Trevor Pearcey, Vaughan Pratt, Willy Susilo. Excerpt: Neil Gunther, (born 15 August 1950) is a computer information systems researcher best known internationally for developing the open-source performance modeling software Pretty Damn Quick and developing the Guerrilla approach to computer capacity planning and performance analysis. He has also been cited for his contributions to the theory of large transients in computer systems and packet networks, and his universal law of computational scalability. Gunther is a Senior Member of both the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), as well as a member of the American Mathematical Society (AMS), American Physical Society (APS), Computer Measurement Group (CMG) and ACM SIGMETRICS. He is currently focused on developing quantum information system technologies. Gunther is an Australian of German and Scots ancestry, born in Melbourne on 15 August 1950. He attended Preston East Primary School from 1955 to 1956, and Balwyn North Primary School from 1956 until 1962. For his tenth birthday, Gunther received a copy of the now famous book entitled The Golden Book of Chemistry Experiments from an older cousin. Inspired by the book, he started working on various experiments, making use of various chemicals that could be found around in his house. After he spilled some potassium permanganate solution on his bedroom carpet his mother confined him to an alcove in the garage which he turned into a small laboratory, replete with industrial chemicals and second-hand laboratory glassware. Gunther was interested in finding out how things like detergents and oils were composed by cracking them in his fractionating column. He took particular interest in mixing paints for his art classes, as well as his chemistry classes in Balwyn High School. His father, being the Superintendent of Melbourne's electrical power station, borrowed an organic chemistry text from the chemists in the quality control laboratory. This ultimately led to