Professor J Craig Mudge - Director MII
Craig Mudge brings a unique range of experiences to Macquarie University. Most recently he has been Managing Partner of Pacific Challenge, a Silicon-Valley-based management consultancy where he brought his years of operational experience both in technology companies and world-class research centres to his work with clients. Innovation is a clear focus of his work. As director of the Computer Science Lab at Xerox PARC, he nurtured the next generation Internet Protocol, IPv6, and other PARC innovations. Earlier, he was a founder of Austek Microsystems, a semiconductor company that achieved several important technology breakthroughs, including the world's first single-chip cache. He also was a computer designer at DEC in Boston and founded and led micro-chip research at CSIRO. He co-authored "Computer Engineering" with Gordon Bell, has published over sixty papers, and holds six patents. » (detailed CV)