The Pearcey Awards are a set of prizes presented annually since 1998 by the Pearcey Foundation

Pearcey Foundation

The Pearcey Foundation is an Australian organisation dedicated to raising the profile of the Australian Information Technology and Telecommunications industry...

 for achievement in the Australian

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

 ICT industry.

Pearcey Award Categories

Each year, the Pearcey Foundation presents 3 categories of award:

Pearcey Medal: The Pearcey Medal is awarded annually to the individual who has made the greatest lifetime achievement and contribution to the ICT profession and industry in Australia.

Pearcey Hall of Fame: In addition to the Pearcey Medal winner, up to two individuals are inducted into the Pearcey Hall of Fame, based on their lifetime contribution to the Australian ICT industry.

State Pearcey Awards: Each state presents a Pearcey award to an upcoming individual who contributes an innovative or pioneering achievement to research and development within the ICT industry.

Pearcey Medal Winners

• 2008 Neville Roach
• 2007 Roger Allen
• 2006 Fiona Balfour
  Fiona Balfour
  Fiona Balfour is an Australian businesswoman. She is best known for the changes she made at Qantas during the 1990s, having joined the airline in 1992. In 2006, she was Telstra's high profile appointment as Chief Information Officer...
  
  
• 2005 John O'Callaghan
• 2004 John Bennett
• 2003 Lyndsey Cattermole
• 2002 Bill Caelli
• 2001 Tony Benson
• 2000 George Kepper
• 1999 Trevor Robinson
• 1998 Peter Jones

Pearcey Hall of Fame Inductees

• 2008 Clive Finkelstein
  Clive Finkelstein
  Clive Finkelstein lives in Australia and is the "Father" of Information Engineering , having developed its concepts from 1976 - 1980 based on original work carried out by him to bridge from strategic business planning to information systems...
  
  , Neil Weste
  Neil Weste
  Neil H. E. Weste , is an Australian inventor and engineer, noted for having designed a 2-chip wireless LAN implementation and for authoring the textbook Principles of CMOS VLSI Design. He has worked in many aspects of integrated-circuit design and was a co-founder of Radiata...
  
  
• 2007 Rob Newman, John Puttick
• 2006 Cyril Brookes, Max Burnet
• 2005 Ashley Goldsworthy, John O'Neil
• 2004 Ormond Brown, Bob Bishop, Renfrey Potts
  Renfrey Potts
  Professor Renfrey Burnard Potts AO, , BSc , D Phil , DSc , FAA, FTSE, FACS, FAustMS, was an Australian mathematician and is notable for the Potts model and his achievements in: operations research, especially networks; transportation science, car-following and road traffic; Ising-type models in...
  
  
• 2003 John O'Callaghan, David Hartley
• 2002 Robert Northcote, Phil Singleton
• 2001 John Bennett, Frank Hirst

New South Wales

• 2008 Mike Cannon-Brookes, Scott Farquhar
• 2007 Jeff Waugh
  Jeff Waugh
  Jeff Waugh is an Australian free software and open source software developer. He is a consultant for Waugh Partners and is known for his past prominence in the GNOME and Ubuntu projects and communities.- Career :...
  
  , Pia Waugh
  Pia Waugh
  Pia Waugh is a policy adviser working for Australian Senator Kate Lundy. Waugh is known for her former work as an Australian free software advocate...
  
  
• 2006 Matt Barrie
• 2005 James Dalziel
• 2004 Hugh Durrant-Whyte
• 2003 Ted Dunstone
• 2002 Alex Hartman
  Alex Hartman
  Alexander Hartman is co-founder & Senior Vice President of Rightstrade. He is Senior Vice President of FilmOn.TV Inc.and . He is co-founder of and Hartman is an entrepreneur with an interest in public health services for young people and lives in Los Angeles....
  
  
• 2001 Derek Renouf
• 2000 Clinton Paddison
• 1999 Scott Gazzard

Queensland

• 2007 Tammy Halter
• 2006 Brett Hooker
• 2005 Kon Kakanis
• 2004 Adrian Di Marco
• 2003 David Barbagallo

Tasmania

• 2010 Paris Buttfield-Addison, Jon Manning
• 2006 Ian Cumming
• 2005 Luke Bereznicki
• 2004 Chris Dalton, Anthony Scotney (joint winners)

Victoria

• 2008 Michael Giuffrida
• 2007 Ashley Herring
• 2006 Anthony Overmars
• 2005 Graeme Huon
• 2004 Luke Howard
• 2003 Alec Umansky
• 2002 Jonathan Zufi
• 2001 Anna Carosa
• 2000 Rick Harvey
• 1999 Michael Kölling
  Michael Kölling
  Michael Kölling is a professor and software developer currently with the School of Computing at the University of Kent. Originally from Bremen, Germany, he is also a key member of the team that developed the BlueJ and Greenfoot Java learning environments. BlueJ is used in over 900 institutions...