Please note that I am not saying that plenty of research and work isn't done at Universities on things that are 5 or 15 years away. However I believe that NZ Universities have chosen to specialize in other areas (bio science mostly) and thus are punching below their weight in the Internet, IT and related fields. Which is a shame because before the mid-90s they *were* relatively advanced.
I would guess that we are pretty useless given that all we have done are trivial things such as: - consulting to tier 1 and tier 2 telcos - been instrumental in new protocol work such as DCCP - talking to some of the largest CGI players - working with tier 1 ISPs and advising them - in the USA - have companies spun off that are fastest growing in measurement technology and world leading - have world leading, open source work - networked some of the most remote parts of New Zealand - part of NLANR work 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 - ranked #1 in PBRF Oh well we will just carry on doing irrelevant and useless work and we'll also carry on our work with bioscience as well but I can't see that having any future either. Ian -- 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