Biographical entry Davis, Edward Bruce (1920 - )

Summary

Edward Bruce Davis headed a group at Weapons Research Establishment during the 1960s. They studied problems of near real time processing of large amounts of data and the extraction of weak signals from clutter and noise. He was also a Councillor of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia (Central Section) Inc.in South Australia.

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Events

1941 - 1946

Career position - Lieutenant with the Royal Australian Naval Volunteer Reserve

1946 - 1952

Career position - Engineer with the Postmaster General's Department

1953 - 1957

Career position - Senior Engineer with the Postmaster General's Department

1959 - 1962

Career position - Principal Engineer with the Communications section

1962 - 1966

Career position - Superintendent of Electronics and Communications at the Weapons Research Establishment

1966 - 1981

Career position - Chief Superintendent of the Advanced Engineering Laboratory, Defence Research Centre in Salisbury

1982 - 1984

Career position - Visiting Fellow at the CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) Division of Manufacturing Technology

1983 - 1989

Career position - Chairman of the Federal Communications Advisory Committee

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Published resources

Online Resources

• National Library of Australia, 'Davis Edward Bruce', Trove, National Library of Australia and the Australian National Maritime Museum Darling Harbour, 2009, http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1476407. Details

See also

• Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=P003482. Details
• Wisdom, John, A History of Defence Science in Australia, Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Melbourne, 1995, 267 pp. Details