Currently interested in Australia having a sovereign capability in generative AI, Craig Mudge AO has a bachelor’s degree in mathematics and statistics from the ANU and a PhD in computer science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His career was evenly split between industry and public sector research, including computer design with DEC/Hewlett Packard in Boston, Chief Research Scientist at CSIRO, founding CEO of Austek Microsystems Ltd., Caltech professor, Computer Science Lab Director at Xerox PARC, and strategy consultancy www.pacific-challenge.com. He holds six patents in computer arithmetic and image processing. Elected as a Fellow in 1985, he chaired the Working Group on Cloud Computing in 2009-11, whose Report CLOUD COMPUTING: Opportunities and Challenges for Australia, played a role in the country’s adoption of cloud computing.

Dr Mudge became well known in Australian scientific and engineering circles soon after his appointment in 1981 to head the VLSI Program for CSIRO. In the two years or so since then, his energy and efforts have had a remarkable effect in introducing some 150 practising engineers and scientists to the modern techniques of complex microelectronic design. In addition, his research group has become a leading centre for research in computer-aided design.

This citation is not based solely on these recent achievements, however. Prior to his return to Australia, he played a key role, in the USA, with the Digital Equipment Corporation, in the development of the well ?known PDP-11 and VAX-11 computers.

Dr Mudge has numerous publications, patents and conference presentations to his credit, of which details are attached.