NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has secured a place in the European Commission’s prestigious 7th Framework Program for Research and Technological Development (FP7).

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, welcomes $10 million in funding from the Queensland State Government for NICTA’s Queensland Research Laboratory (NICTA QRL). The funding was announced yesterday by Queensland Premier Anna Bligh.

A NICTA/UNSW team has won a significant international technology award, winning first place in the ARTEMIS Orchestra competition in Athens with a robotically operated, computer-driven clarinet.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, today announced that NICTA researcher Professor Toby Walsh has been elected a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI).

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence has been granted formal registration as a Registered Research Agency (RRA).

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence welcomed two new Board members, Mr Loftus Harris and Dr Chris Beare, at its Annual General Meeting last week.

Audinate Pty Ltd, a company revolutionising digital media networking technology, announced today that it has raised A$4 million in its second investment round, led by Innovation Capital with follow-on investment by Starfish Ventures and NICTA. The company will use the funds to continue developing and marketing its products to the international professional A/V industry, with specific emphasis on the United States.

The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator the Hon. Stephen Conroy, will officially attend and address NICTA’s annual technology showcase, Techfest, in Canberra on 1 May 2008.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, is thrilled with the announcement of $25 million funding over five years from 2007-2012 from the NSW Government. The funding was announced today by the NSW Minister for State Development Ian Macdonald.

NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence has teamed with the Queensland Department of Emergency Services and a Brisbane ICT company to develop tools which will help emergency services agencies obtain timely information about unfolding situations.

NICTA, Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, has signed a commercial license agreement with VastPark, a leading virtual worlds platform provider.

Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, NICTA, has spun out its fourth technology company in less than six years of operation, following the founding of network monitoring company, Monitoring Division.

The world’s first transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60GHz on the CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) process, the most common semiconductor technology, was announced today by NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence.

Australian scientists have used genome analysis tools to create a patented technology to investigate the fate of the laser beams zapping through the optical fibres that connect our cities.

A researcher from NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence, will co-chair a new World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) group which will pave the way for the various organisations involved in managing disasters to share up-to-date information.