The RMIT School of Computer Technologies is an Australian
tertiary education
Tertiary education, also referred to as third-level, third-stage or post-secondary education, is the educational level following the completion of secondary education. The World Bank, for example, defines tertiary education as including univer ...
school within the STEM College of
RMIT University
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia.
Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering cla ...
.
Location
The school is located in Building 14 (levels 8 to 11) in Swanston Street at the
RMIT City
The Melbourne City campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University) is located in the city centre of Melbourne in Victoria, Australia. It is sometimes referred to as "RMIT City" and the "RMIT Quarter" of the city in the medi ...
campus. Previously the school was located in Building 10 at RMIT's City campus and also part of the school was located at
RMIT's Bundoora campus.
History
The first computer at RMIT, an
Elliott Automation model 803, was acquired at the instigation of the Department of Mathematics during the early 1960s, and located on the ground floor of
Storey Hall
Storey Hall, located at 342–344 Swanston Street in Melbourne, Australia, is part of the RMIT City campus of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT University). It consists of a grand meeting hall constructed in 1887, extended and ...
.
[Murray-Smith, S and Dare, A.J (1987): ''The Tech: A Centenary History of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology'', Hyland House Publishing, Melbourne, ]
The School of Computer Science and Information Technology (which has had several names) became a separate academic department of RMIT in 1980. The first PhD in Computer Science awarded at RMIT was in 1988 to Dr Alan Kent for his thesis on "File access methods based on descriptors and superimposed coding".
[1988 Research Report, Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology, ISSN 0156-3939]
In 1990, the Multimedia Database Systems group within the school became a research centre led by Professor Ron Sacks-Davis. Following the development of
TeraText
TeraText is a non- relational text database. It is used to store and search through large amounts of textual data. It was originally developed at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology.
TeraText operation utilises a heavy client server model ...
(a non-relational text database system), the commercial arm of the group (including TeraText) was in 2001 spun off into a separate company, InQuirion. RMIT subsequently sold TeraText and InQuirion to
SAIC in 2006.
[June 14, 2006. School's affiliated research centre sold to U.S. company, http://rmit.org.au/ID=86nrvpoy3t7u Retrieved on 2009-06-22.]
See also
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RMIT University
RMIT University, officially the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology,, section 4(b) is a public university, public research university in Melbourne, Australia.
Founded in 1887 by Francis Ormond, RMIT began as a night school offering cla ...
References
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Computing Technologies
Computer science departments
Information technology schools
Science and technology in Melbourne