And to back up what I am saying with links...
- been instrumental in new protocol work such as DCCP http://lwn.net/Articles/149756/ - have companies spun off that are fastest growing in measurement technology and world leading http://endace.com/ - have world leading, open source work http://research.wand.net.nz/ - networked some of the most remote parts of New Zealand http://www.crc.net.nz/ - part of NLANR work http://watt.nlanr.net/
and that's just WAND. Our other useless people do things like: - advise UN on digital libraries - help Google plan major projects - are leading experts in ACM/IEEE http://www.scms.waikato.ac.nz/genquery.php?linklist=SCMS_Bottom&linktype=report&listby=Title&report=News&linkname=News&lwhere=unique_record_id=95
See also: http://www.medialab.co.nz/ http://www.reeltwo.com/index.php?page=news&article=2006012701 Another company spun out of UoW that is doing world leading work in bioinformatics - which happens to be a combination of computer science and bioscience - where New Zealand universities are world leading - so no we don't need to switch to bioscience at the expense of computer science. http://www.ectus.com/our_story/history.jsp - Spun out of UoW -- Ian McDonald Web: http://wand.net.nz/~iam4 Blog: http://imcdnzl.blogspot.com WAND Network Research Group Department of Computer Science University of Waikato New Zealand