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Dallwitz, Michael John (Mike) (1943 - )

Born
20 May 1943
Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
Occupation
Computer scientist and Physicist

Summary

Michael Dallwitz joined the CSIRO Division of Entomology in 1970 where he supervised the Divisional computing unit from 1974 to 1992, and consulted with staff in the development of general-purpose software. His major achievement was the DELTA software, a flexible data format, capable of representing most types of information used by taxonomists for description, identification, and classification of living organisms. DELTA was used worldwide from 1985 in taxonomic research and for teaching. Dallwitz presented numerous workshops on the use of DELTA. He left CSIRO in 2000 when DELTA was closed.

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In 1996 Dallwitz was awarded the CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement for his development of the DELTA taxonomic computer programs.

Chronology

1965
Education - Bachelor of Science (Hon 2A) in Physics, Australian National University
1969
Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Solid State Physics, Australian National University
1969 - 1970
Career position - Temporary Lecturer, Department of Physics, Australian National University
1970 - 2000
Career position - Research Scientist (later Senior Principal Research Scientist), CSIRO Division of Entomology
1992 - 2000
Career position - Member, Data Subcommittee, International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses
1992 - 2000
Career position - Visiting Fellow in the Molecular Evolution and Systematics Group, Research School of Biological Sciences, Australian National University
1993 - 1994
Career position - Member, Information Systems Committee, International Organization for Plant Information
1996
Award - CSIRO Medal for Research Achievement

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  • Dallwitz, M. J., User's guide to the DELTA system : a general system for coding taxonomic descriptions (Canberra: CSIRO, 1980), 71p pp. Details

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