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Richard Kennard presents at Sydney AngularJS User Group

March 2013

Richard Kennard has presented a session on porting Metawidget to AngularJS at the Sydney AngularJS User Group.

Richard Kennard's thesis wins PhD Of The Year

January 2013

Richard Kennard's PhD thesis, Derivation of a General Purpose Architecture for Automatic User Interface Generation has been awarded Australasian Thesis of the Year.

Richard Kennard's industry article published

September 2012

Richard Kennard's article How To Get (Almost) Everything You Ever Wanted In One (Not Very) Easy Step has been published in Software Development Times, a leading industry magazine.

Richard Kennard to present at SoMeT 2012

July 2012

Richard Kennard's paper An Introduction to Software Mining has been chosen for the 11th International Conference on Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques taking place in Genoa, Italy.

Richard Kennard awarded PhD in Software Engineering

March 2012

Richard Kennard has been awarded a PhD in Software Engineering from the University of Technology, Sydney. His thesis Derivation of a General Purpose Architecture for Automatic User Interface Generation was praised by his examiners as "very satisfying, inspiring, carefully laid out, meticulously planned and executed".

Metawidget built into JBoss AeroGear

February 2012

Richard Kennard's Open Source project Metawidget has been prototyped into Red Hat's newest initiative JBoss AeroGear. AeroGear is focussed on providing tools to assist mobile development.

Metawidget built into JBoss Forge

December 2011

Richard Kennard's Open Source project Metawidget is an integral part of Red Hat's latest product JBoss Forge. Forge is a core framework for rapid-application development in a standards-based environment.

Metawidget featured at JavaOne 2011

October 2011

Metawidget has been presented at a technical session at JavaOne 2011 in San Francisco. Online video is available.

Metawidget deployed to thousands of health clinics

July 2011

Metawidget has been deployed to thousands of health clinics across Spain as part of a product launch by the country's largest telecommunications company, Telefónica.

Richard Kennard's journal article published

May 2011

Richard Kennard's journal article entitled Is There Convergence in the Field of UI Generation? has been accepted for publication by the international Journal of Systems and Software.