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Conrad Parker
Annodex Association
Conrad Parker is currently based at Kyoto University, Japan, investigating video search infrastructure and interface usability. He previously worked as a Senior Research Engineer at CSIRO Australia on free software and open standards related to Annodex, a web-architected, distributed hypermedia system. He has presented Annodex related work at meetings of the IETF, the WWW2005 Developer’s Day, ACM Multimedia and various Free Software conferences, and published articles about Annodex in IEEE Multimedia and ACM Multimedia Systems.
He has developed some other useful free software projects including the Sweep sound editor used by Pixar in the production of animated feature films. Conrad contributes regularly to Free Software multimedia projects such as Ogg Vorbis, Speex, Theora and xine, helping build technology for all people that surpasses the breadth and impact of television.
He holds degrees in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from the University of New South Wales, and is a former board member of the Australian Unix Users Group and a former president of the Sydney Linux Users Group.