Professor John Roddick is a fellow of the Australian Computer Society and of the Institution of Engineers, Australia.
He has recently stepped down as series editor of the Conferences in Research and Practice in Information Technology and prior to that was editor-in-chief of the Journal of Research and Practice in Information Technology.
He was the Chair of the Australasian Database Conference for 1998 and 1999 and co-chaired the conference in 2001 with Maria Orlowska. In 2000 he chaired (with Kathleen Hornsby) the International Workshop on Temporal, Spatial and Spatio-Temporal Data Mining - TSDM2000 - with PKDD2000 (proceedings available here).
In 1999 he chaired the first International Workshop on Evolution and Change in Data Management (ECDM'99) and co-chaired the 2nd workshop with Fabio Grandi in 2002. He was General co-chair, with Jenny Harvey, of the Australasian Computer Science Week held in Adelaide in January 2003.
In 2004 he co-chaired, with Sven Hartmann, the 1st Asia-Pacific Conference on Conceptual Modelling and the 4th APCCM with Annika Hinze in January 2007. He was workshops chair for 25th International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (ER2006) (proceedings available here) and was involved with the ER'2007 conference in Auckland also.
More recently, he is the Oceania Regional Chair for to be held in Brisbane in April and was PC Chair of the Australasian Data Mining Conference in Adelaide in November last year.
He is a participant of the international TimeCenter consortium of researchers investigating aspects of temporal database design and use, and co-chaired the Ninth International Symposium on Spatial and Temporal Databases in Santorini, Greece in 2003 (proceedings available here).
