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Dr. Peter D. Jones BSc, BE, PhD, FTSE, is an Honorary Fellow of Sydney University.   Dr Jones' academic career includes positions as Associate Professor of Computing at UNSW, Research Fellow in Computing at the ANU, and President of the Science Foundation for Physics at Sydney University.

Dr Jones is the founder of twenty high tech companies in Australia and the USA and was also a member of ASTEC, the Prime Minister's advisory committee on science and technology.

Dr Jones was the initial CEO and a founder of ac3 (Australian Centre for Advanced Computing and Communications) at the ATP (Australian Technology Park), and is currently chairman of several high tech Australian owned companies, including Home Communications, Superquant, ETSN, Digital Motion and Ideadata.

In 1998 Dr Jones was awarded the Inaugural Pearcey Foundation Medal for distinguished lifetime achievement and contribution to the development and growth of the Information Technology, Professions, Research and Technology. He also received, in May 2003, the Centenary Medal for service to Australian society in information technology.