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  Unis prepare for next Cloud wave

  Following a wave of migration to Cloud-based email systems for students and staff, Australian universities are preparing for the next migration trend, outsourcing instances of the popular Blackboard student resources portal to the vendor’s own servers.

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  Curtin University to add accessibility software to website

  Curtin University of Technology will add accessibility software to its website this month in an effort to expand access to its education courses and services.

• Aussie research agencies join forces for space project

  Australian research agencies have teamed up for an $8 million space technology project aimed at monitoring climate change.

• Curtin researchers use computer modelling to improve flow distribution

  Curtin University of Technology researchers are using advanced computer modelling to help understand flow distribution issues at BP’s oil refinery in Kwinana, 40 kilometres south of Perth.

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  Curtin University touches Surface for education, medicine

  The Curtin University of Technology will become the first Australian educational institution to employ Microsoft's newly launched Surface multi-touch PC when it implements three of the devices later this year.

• Curtin CIO cements future in cloud computing

  If successful, cloud computing will enable IT departments to concentrate of managing information rather than physical assets, according to Curtin University of Technology CIO Peter Nikoletatos who is leading a trial of a hybrid public-private cloud infrastructure.

• CSIRO seeking Linux cluster for SKA high performance computer

  CSIRO will spend up to $5 million on a Linux-based high performance computing system to help boost research efforts at the Pawsey Centre for SKA Science in Perth.