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NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has secured one million dollars in Commonwealth Government funding to develop an advanced video surveillance demonstrator for the Port of Brisbane.

Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy, Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, and Mr Barry Buffier, Deputy Director General of the NSW Government’s Industry and Investment NSW, officially opened NICTA’s Australian Technology Park Laboratory and Corporate Head Office today.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has successfully demonstrated technology that reduces the amount of radio interference in 3G networks with femtocells.

Under a new two-year agreement, NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, will collaborate with Singapore’s A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R) to develop and demonstrate fast, low-cost, temporary mobile wireless communications networks. Founded in 2002, I²R is a member of Singapore’s Agency for Science, Technology and Research (A*STAR) family.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, congratulates Professor Gernot Heiser on winning the Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Sciences category of the NSW Scientist of the Year Awards.

NICTA and the ACT Government have launched a Government technology cluster to support and strengthen Government ICT industries in Australia. The ACT Government is providing $150,000 to help establish the cluster in 2009-10, with a commitment for a further $100,000 per annum through to 2011-12.