Presenter:
Ian Hoyle

Ogranisation:
BHP

Paper:
BHP and the Internet

Abstract:

"BHP began its involvement in the Australian networking scene with multiple connections to ACSnet by several BHP divisions. Several years ago BHP Research obtained a full Internet connection into AARNet. This paper traces the history of our connection, how Internet usage has grown within BHP Research and also looks at the current efforts to widen the exposure of staff in other BHP groups to Internet services."

Biography:

"Ian Hoyle is a Senior Research Scientist at BHP Research, where he is responsible for the development of high performance computing and the development of Internet network services. Until recently he was primarily involved in scientific visualization research.

He is the BHP internic handle, responsible for the BHP tcp/ip address space, and is currently a member of the AARNet Engineering Work Group, chairing the resource discovery working group. This year he is the chairman of the Australian Unix Users Group conference in Melbourne in September.

He received a BSC (Hons) in theoretical physics from the University of NSW and also a BSc (Hons) and PhD in geophysics from the University of New England."