Genomics pioneer Dr J Craig Venter to deliver Graeme Clark Oration

11/03/2010  11.00
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.

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NICTA and Fraunhofer IESE world-leading researchers combine forces

04/03/2010  9.00
NICTA 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. The agreement creates an immediate framework for joint research work to solve hard problems in transport and logistics.

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NICTA flies flag for Australian ICT innovation at CeBIT Hannover

01/03/2010  11.30
For the first time, NICTA will exhibit at the world’s largest ICT trade fair, CeBIT Hannover. Our debut follows six continuous years of participation in CeBIT Australia. “We are taking nine teams to CeBIT where they will have the opportunity to introduce Australian-invented IT and Communications to the world stage,” says NICTA’s Director of Commercialisation and Markets, Rob Fitzpatrick.

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NICTA trumpets ‘Elefant’ open source software

25/02/2010 11:00
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.

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