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 English AACR2 Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules Person created 2001-05-25 human Rosanne Walker; Ken McInnes updated 2025-12-31 human https://www.eoas.info/biogs/P003960b.htm person Smith Norman Malcolm Hamilton AACR2 1 November 1932 12 July 2020 Place of Birth Koo-wee-rup, Victoria, Australia Place of Death Victoria, Australia Electrical engineer Norman Smith, BEE PhD, worked as an engineer in telecommunications traffic and operations research within Headquarters Planning Branch of the Postmaster-General's Department, from 1956 until 1966 when he gained a scholarship to study for a PhD at ANU. During the 1960s, he undertook much of the investigation work for a three-stage first group selector for use in the ARM Crossbar Automatic Trunk Exchanges, that enabled full Subscriber Trunk Dialling (STD) from the capital cities. He also developed IBM 7090 computer programs for network optimisation investigations. After he completed his doctorate he returned to the Post Office during 1969, but then investigated freeway capacity problems in the Civil Engineering Department at the University of Melbourne then transferred to the Statistics Department, where in 1976 he was a senior lecturer, and Acting Chairman. His research interests varied and ranged from applied probability theory and the applications of queueing theory to road traffic problems to the practical and theoretical applications of statistics to real data and the information-theoretic underpinnings of statistical inference. 1951 Career position - Cadet Engineer, Postmaster-General's Department 1953 1953 Education - Bachelor of Electrical Engineering (BEE), University of Melbourne 1953 c. 1954 Career position - Graduate Training as a Cadet, Postmaster-General's Department c. 1954 c. 1956 Career position - Grade 1 Engineer, Victorian Country Installation and Metropolitan District Works Divisions, Postmaster-General's Department 1956 Career position - first Secretary, Central Office Traffic Engineering Committee, Postmaster-General's Department [Detailed technical investigation leading to the adoption of the L M Ericsson Crossbar Systems by the Department] c. 1963 c. 1963 Career position - Sectional Engineer, Traffic Engineering, Headquarters Planning Branch, Postmaster-General's Department 1966 1968 Career position - Commonwealth Public Service Scholarship [To undertake PhD at ANU] 1969 1969 Career event - Sectional Engineer, Traffic Engineering, Headquarters Planning Branch, Postmaster-General's Department 1970 Career position - Researcher, Civil Engineering Department, University of Melbourne 1970 1970 Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Australian National University c. 1973 Career position - Senior lecturer, Statistics Department, University of Melbourne 1976 Career position - Acting Chairman, Statistics Department, University of Melbourne Smith, N M H

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 'Smith, Norman Malcolm Hamilton', in Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, Centre for Transformative Innovation, Swinburne University of Technology Smith, Norman Malcolm Hamilton Swinburne University of Technology, Centre for Transformative Innovation Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Conference Paper: Development of telephone traffic measurement equipment and its application in the Australian telephone network Pratt, C. W.; Tyrrell, L. A. Development of telephone traffic measurement equipment and its application in the Australian telephone network Institution of Engineers Australia 1972 Electronic Instrumentation Conference, Hobart 1972 95-103 Journal Article: Crossbar switching equipment for the Australian telephone network Banks, E. R. Crossbar switching equipment for the Australian telephone network 1961 Journal of the Institution of Engineers, Australia 33 4-5 113-125 Journal Article: Analysing railway crossing accident data Herbert, A. J.; Smith, N. M. H. Analysing railway crossing accident data 1976 Australian Road Research 6 3 24-33 Conference Paper: More accurate calculation of overflow traffic from link trunked crossbar group selectors Smith, N. H. M. More accurate calculation of overflow traffic from link trunked crossbar group selectors 1961 Third International Teletraffic Congress in Paris Journal Article: More accurate calculation of overflow traffic from crossbar group selectors Smith, N. M. H. More accurate calculation of overflow traffic from crossbar group selectors Telecommunication Society of Australia 1963 Telecommunication Journal of Australia 13 6 472-475 Resource: Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering Technology in Australia 1788-1988 Online Melbourne Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre 2000