Clive Boughton (born 4 August 1956) is an Australian

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residing in

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, in the

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. He is a senior lecturer in the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology at the

Australian National University The Australian National University (ANU) is a public research university located in Canberra, the capital of Australia. Its main campus in Acton encompasses seven teaching and research colleges, in addition to several national academies and ...

. He is the managing director of Software Improvements Pty Ltd.

Professional career

Before completing his BSc Boughton undertook both research (at ARRB Group Ltd.) and industrial practice (at USL as Lab Manager) concerning the physical properties of soils. He published a paper on the soil compacting properties of rollers for road-making. Boughton obtained his BSc (applied physics) from

RMIT University RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public research university in Melbourne Melbourne ( ; Boonwurrung/Woiwurrung: ''Narrm'' or ''Naarm'') is the capital and most populous city ...

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in 1976. After completing his BSc he became a professional officer at the department of physics at

Monash University Monash University () is a public research university based in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. Named for prominent World War I general Sir John Monash, it was founded in 1958 and is the second oldest university in the state. The university has a ...

in Melbourne where did research into the specific heat of superconducting alloys. He published a research paper on the Fe(3-x)Mn(x)Si category of superconducting compounds/alloys as a result of his work at Monash. Boughton began his PhD at

in 1981 and began studying gaseous dynamics. He obtained his PhD in molecular physics in 1988.

Further afield

Boughton left the university environment to take a senior software engineering position at C3 in 1984. He worked at several other companies, including his own, before accepting a Visiting Fellow position in the Department of Computer Science at Australian National University in 1995, eventually becoming a full-time member of the department in 2000. Boughton was a contributor to the establishment of the BS Eng degree program within Department of Computer Science/Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology. He was involved in eVACS (Electronic voting and counting), a computer system that provides for electronic voting and electronic counting for ACT Legislative Assembly elections.Global lessons in E-voting
/ref> It provides for counting according to the Hare-Clark electoral system rules set out in the Electoral Act 1992. He was involved in requirements identification and design.

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* "eVACS" https://web.archive.org/web/20070708225404/http://www.elections.act.gov.au/EVACS.html * http://conferences.oreillynet.com/cs/os2004/view/e_sess/5512 "Presentation of Election Software", 30 July 2001, Oreillynet.com. Retrieved 10 July 2007. * http://crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV30Flint.pdf Paper on Executable/Translatable UML in computing education * https://web.archive.org/web/20070908200638/http://www.crpit.com/confpapers/CRPITV15Boughton.pdf Paper "Beginning to Define a Body of Knowledge for Safety Practitioners" {{DEFAULTSORT:Boughton, Clive Academic staff of the Australian National University 1956 births Living people

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