NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, is proud to announce the graduation of the 100th PhD student who carried out their research at NICTA. This remarkable milestone, achieved in close collaboration with NICTA’s member and partner universities, comes less than three years after the first NICTA-supported PhD student graduated.

You are invited to come and see the latest exciting developments from NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence. From clever viral distribution technology to cost-saving supply chain software, NICTA has ICT opportunities across a range of markets. This is the second year that NICTA has participated in Asia’s premier business-to-business event and we are demonstrating an expanded range of new technologies. Visit our stand and see some truly innovative applications, including a maritime communications system developed with Singapore’s A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research (I²R). Several of these projects are now seeking commercialisation partners.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, congratulates Dr Chris Nicol, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Embedded Systems, who last night won a prestigious ATSE Clunies Ross Award.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, welcomes last night’s Federal Budget announcement which secures its funding for a further four years beyond its existing funding agreement which goes to mid-2011.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, will arrive at CeBIT tomorrow armed with an exciting array of fresh applications software and systems solutions. Two new mobile applications designed for the iPhone will be demonstrated publicly for the first time. NICTA’s innovative supply chain logistics software along with a new software testing tool that detects bugs early in the software development process will also be on public show for the first time.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, welcomed two new Board members, Professor Barney Glover and Mr George Campbell, at its Annual General Meeting last week.

A robotic concertina developed at the University of Adelaide and sponsored by NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has won second place in a significant international technology contest, the ARTEMIS Orchestra competition in Nice, France.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, welcomes Professor Terry Caelli as Director of its Queensland Research Laboratory (QRL).

A prestigious Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship has been awarded to NICTA’s Byron Wicks. NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, is delighted to recognise this outstanding achievement, which will see Byron take up postdoctoral research in electronic engineering at the University of California, Berkeley, from July this year.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, is pleased to announce the first public demonstration of a prototype system using its world-first 60GHz Gigabit wireless (GiFi) chip technology.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, is pleased to announce that one of its spin-out companies, Open Kernel Labs (OK Labs), has secured a further US$7.6 million in venture funding.