Curriculum Vitae:
Robert Williams has over 25 year's experience in the Information Systems industry, as a practitioner, researcher and lecturer. He has extensive experience in systems analysis and design, and programming, on a variety of mainframe, mini and personal computers, and a variety of operating systems and programming languages. Applications he has worked with include mathematical, statistical, bridge and road engineering, financial, corporate resource allocation, business simulation and educational systems. He has published a number of articles on system users' personalities and satisfaction, decision support systems, and automated essay grading systems. In 2001 he led a team of researchers in the School of Information Systems at Curtin University of Technology which conducted what is believed to be the first trial in Australia of an Automated Essay Grading system. Robert F. Williams holds a Bachelor of Arts degree with double majors in Mathematics and Economics from the University of Western Australia, a Graduate Diploma in Computing from the Western Australian Institute of Technology, and a Master of Information Systems degree from Curtin University of Technology. Robert F. Williams is a member of the Association for Computational Linguistics.

Main Research Interests:

• automated essay grading
• object oriented programming
• user satisfaction