Jon is a researcher of nearly 40 years standing with over 100 publications. He has proven expertise in software engineering, language technology and psychology. Formerly he has held both the Chairs of Language Technology and Information Systems at the University of Sydney. He has worked in health applications of IT and language processing for the past 8 years but has a career of IT innovations stretching back 30 years. He won Australia’s national Eureka Science Prize in 2005 for Scamseek which identified financial scams on the Internet.