sentences:  Speed obtained a Ph.D. from Monash University in 1968 with a thesis titled "Some topics in the theory of distributive lattices" under the supervision of Peter D. Finch.Speed is currently laboratory head in the Bioinformatics division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, in Melbourne, and was head of the division until 31 August 2014.Previously, he was sharing his time between this position and the department of statistics of the University of California, Berkeley.