Stories about: Australian National University

Two IT-themed projects have shared the $25,000 runners-up award in the Australian National University's Innovation ANU program - a staged business and commercialisation development program for ANU students and staff.

Researchers at the University of Sydney have developed technology that could boost the throughput of existing networks by 100-fold without costing the consumer any more, and its all thanks to a scratch on a piece of glass.

The NSW government today made available $25 million in funding for ICT research and development.

Former Commonwealth Bank of Australia CIO, Howard Morris, has joined consulting firm The Nous Group to lead its Information Management and Technology Practice (IM&T) in Sydney.

Linux and High Performance Computing go hand in hand. So to see what Australian users have been doing with Linux and HPC, this year's linux.conf.au is holding a Birds of a Feather session on the topic. Before the session kicks off we take time to speak to the BoF coordinator Anthony David. During the working day David works for SGI as the onsite engineer for the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC). Here, we ask him about the state of HPC in Australia and where it is heading. The following responses are his own personal beliefs and not that of his employer.

For the past three years researchers at the Australian National University have developed and are now commercialising an unhackable means of transmitting information that is much more secure than existing methods.

The Research School of Information Sciences and Engineering at the Australian National University is working on an project called "Where's the Weet-Bix?" to help people efficiently locate items in a supermarket by means of visual image retrieval.

The Australian National University (ANU) is conducting a world-first program to digitally map the southern sky using a specially constructed telescope called Skymapper, and in another global first will provide the data free to the world via a virtual observatory.

More than $50million worth of Australian IT jobs and scholarships worth $250,000 are on offer in the next 12 months, a consortium of ICT industry leaders including IBM, Microsoft, CSC and KPMG announced yesterday.

The Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) may be wrapping up after seven years of existence, but its legacy and the lessons learned will live on.

NSC Carrier Technologies has changed its name to NSC Network Solutions and added Enterasys in moves that should boost its data sales and brand in the enterprise.