Extenda

Peter Smith

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Lecturer

Peter has been researching and teaching strategy at the University of Auckland for over 10 years. He is particularly interested in how strategy arises in professional service firms, such as engineering consultancies, accounting, and law firms. Prior to joining the University, Peter spent 16 years in the ICT industry, mainly in Europe, in a variety of roles from systems engineering to the management of high-tech service operations.

CSI Extenda 2009 and request for participation in a research project

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CSI Director wins national award

CSI Director Professor John Hosking was awarded a National Tertiary Teaching Excellence Award at a ceremony at Parliament Buildings on Wednesday night. This reflects both his passion for teaching (and research supervision in particular) and his advocacy for mentoring and industry engagement programmes such as the CSI Academy and Extenda programmes....  read more »

Extenda Development Programme

Extenda aims to transform businesses through the establishment of a research-led culture. ICT companies will be given the opportunity to improve their research capabilities, planning methodologies and enhance their products thereby fostering innovation and productivity.

Nick Jones

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Consultant
Programme Leader
Mentor

Nick Jones works with experts at the CSI to help clients resolve fundamental computer science challenges. Nick Jones is Co-Director eResearch in the Centre for eResearch at The University of Auckland based in NZ, and is the Director of the NZ national grid computing and eResearch infrastructure project BeSTGRID.

John Gordon Hosking

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Director
Professor

John is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Auckland. He led the establishment of the Academy, a structured summer internship scheme; the Extenda Development programme and the Centre for Software Innovation which acts as a focal point for University-industry research engagement in ICT.

Skills shortage gets them talking

Adam Gifford refers to our Extenda and Software Process and Product Improvement programmes in Wednesday's NZ Herald.  read more »

Extenda extends University research to local companies

Programme to boost research skills in software companies and to connect students to the commercial worldA good article by Ulrika Hedquist in the latest Computerworld - Extenda extends University research to local companies  read more »

Extenda lifts image of ICT work

A very good article from Simon Hendery articulating the image problem in ICT, which Extenda takes one approach to addressing.http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=55&objectid=10451011  read more »

Extenda launch comment from Rod Drury

Rod Drury spoke at our Extenda launch last night about the compelling nature of investment in R&D by ICT companies .. thanks Rod, an enjoyable night, to be repeated."In New Zealand we seldom give ourselves time to do R&D....  read more »