18/8/2010

NICTA congratulates Peter Stuckey, winner of the inaugural Google Australia Eureka Prize for Innovation in Computer Science. Professor Stuckey, a Project Leader at NICTA’s Victoria Research Laboratory and Professor of Computer Science at the University of Melbourne, won the prize for his new approach to a mathematical process called combinatorial optimisation. This is the process used to identify the optimal combination of variables to support complex tasks like airline crew scheduling, water usage allocation and hospital staff rostering.

NICTA and the Australian Computer Society (ACS) have awarded the inaugural Young Aus-Innovators National ICT Prize to a team of high school students from Newington College in New South Wales. The winning team of Harrison Collin, Brenton Curko, Shannon Kwan and Chao Man will receive a cash prize of $2,500 and a two-week internship at NICTA during the school holidays.

An online programming course for high school students, developed by NICTA and the University of Sydney, has won the e-learning category of the prestigious Australian Information Industry Association (AIIA) iAwards. In addition to the win, NICTA’s Canberra Research Laboratory’s InterfereX team won a Merit award in the Research and Development category of the iAwards.

NICTA is proud to be part of today’s launch of the New South Wales National Broadband Network (NBN) technology trial. As part of the trial, NICTA is utilising the capabilities of the NBN with an on-demand service to residents which delivers online television content.

NICTA has entered into a technology transfer agreement to provide its advanced optimisation and search software to Cohesive Data, a start-up company established specifically to develop and commercialise products based on the core NICTA technology. Cohesive Data has been founded by entrepreneurs/investors Tim Sullivan, Todd Viegut and Peter Vroom. They are joined in the venture by Dr Raymond Wong, who led the NICTA project team that developed the software.

NICTA will demonstrate some of Australia’s smartest technology at Asia’s premier business-to-business event, CommunicAsia 2010 Singapore Expo. Eight of NICTA’s early stage businesses and research project teams will exhibit at CommunicAsia, which kicks off on Tuesday morning, 15 June and runs through Friday afternoon, 18 June.

NICTA is proud to announce that three of its senior executives have won prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Awards. The awards recognise Australia’s visionary scientists and technologists who have successfully bridged the gap between research and the marketplace.

Customers from sectors including finance, Government, transport and health will all benefit from exciting IT and communications technologies NICTA is exhibiting at CeBIT Australia this year. Twelve of our leading research teams will attend CeBIT, Australia’s top business and technology showcase.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has appointed Dr Michelle Deaker to its Board. As Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner of funds management company OneVentures Pty Ltd., Dr Deaker brings a wealth of relevant ICT industry experience to her new position.

To support the development of an advanced bionic eye and to consolidate Australia’s leadership in bioelectronics research, NICTA, Australia’s ICT Research Centre of Excellence, is establishing a bioelectronics laboratory in Melbourne.

31/03/2010

NICTA today celebrated the official launch of the Bionic Vision Australia (BVA) research consortium. Held in Melbourne this morning, the launch event featured the first public display of the design concept of the future bionic eye.

As a key sponsor of the annual Graeme Clark Oration, NICTA takes great pleasure in welcoming genomics pioneer Dr J Craig Venter to Melbourne to deliver this year’s address, From Reading to Writing the Genetic Code.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence has signed a five-year agreement with the Fraunhofer Institute for Experimental Software Engineering (IESE) to establish the Fraunhofer Project Group on Transport and Logistics at NICTA’s Sydney laboratory.  

For the first time, NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, will exhibit at the world’s largest ICT trade fair, CeBIT Hannover. Our debut follows six continuous years of participation in CeBIT Australia.

NICTA has added an exciting new software release to its open source portal, OpenNICTA.com.

Elefant, a toolkit for efficient learning, large-scale inference, and optimisation, is an open source library for machine learning developed by NICTA’s Automated Data Analysis research team, which develops technology to automatically analyse, interpret and summarise large amounts of data.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, congratulates its first spin-out company Audinate, a leading developer of digital media networking solutions, for securing $AUD4 million in additional funding.