Biographical entry O'Kane, Mary Josephine

Summary

Mary Josephine O'Kane was Deputy Vice-Chancellor at the University of Adelaide from 1994-96, when she was appointed Vice-Chancellor. She was formerly Dean of the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering at the University of Canberra 1989-93. In previous years she spent some time at the Institute of Information Science at Turin University. She is a computer expert whose specialty is computer voice recognition.

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Events

1982

Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) completed at Australian National University

1989 - 1993

Career position - Dean of the Faculty of Information Sciences and Engineering at the University of Canberra

1994 -

Career position - Fellow of the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (FTSE)

1994 - 1996

Career position - Deputy Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide

1996 - 2001

Career position - Vice-Chancellor of the University of Adelaide

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Published resources

Books

• Bhathal, Ragbir, Profiles, Australian women scientists, National Library of Australia, Canberra, 1999, 191 pp. Details

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'O'Kane, Mary', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1304057. Details

See also

• Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Handbook 2001, Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Victoria, 2001, 271 pp. Details