George has more than 30 years of experience in Computing and Information Systems, working in academia, private industry and government organisations both in Australia and Argentina. He often presents in academic and industry forums, and is a co-author of the book “Distributed Applications Engineering” (Springer-Verlag). His research interests include Distributed Computing, Federated Architectures for the Enterprise, and Enterprise Integration. Over the last few years, George has also focused on e-learning, and as a result he has developed a variety of software tools for Flexible/On-Line subject delivery, a category in which he received in December 1999 an Australian Award for University Teaching (Flexible Delivery/Learning).