Stories about: Australian National University

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    AFACT v iiNet: Government called to action 24/02/2011 16:46:00

    Service providers, rights holders and internet users are anxiously awaiting news of whether the Australian Federation Against Copyright Theft (AFACT) will further appeal the decision against it today by the Federal Court, but both the industry body and defendant iiNet are clear on a single message: The Federal Government must step in.
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    New supercomputer to boost Aussie research (updated) 16/11/2009 10:30:00

    Australia's newest and most powerful supercomputer, set to rocket into the world's top 40, will be launched in Canberra today.
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    BOM, Sun to build $30M supercomputer 19/03/2009 12:09:00

    Amid rumours of Sun Microsystems being snapped up by IBM, the company has announced a whopping $30 million deal with Australia's Bureau of Meteorology (BOM) to build one of the largest high-performance computing environments in the southern hemisphere.
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    Microsoft, AFP partner for online safety program 04/03/2009 11:47:00

    The Australian Federal Police (AFP) and Microsoft have brought the ThinkUKnow education program to Australia. The program, which originated in the UK, is aimed at educating parents and teachers about how to keep kids away from online predators and other threats.
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    Aussie govt considers quantum leap in secure comms 03/03/2009 13:27:00

    Commonwealth departments to trial Quantum Key Distribution.
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    Aussies develop optical chip that could lead to terabit Ethernet 04/02/2009 09:36:00

    Danish and Australian researchers have developed a chip that efficiently reads 640Gbps optical transmissions and could help pave the way to terabit Ethernet.
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    Photonic switching beckons 100x Internet speeds 09/07/2008 18:30:00

    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.
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    Quantum key to unbreakable cryptography 13/12/2007 07:31:23

    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.
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    Image-based search helps find the Weet-Bix 06/12/2007 08:34:36

    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.
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    World first: Aussie astronomers digitally map southern sky 04/12/2007 08:22:47

    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.
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    Highly sensitive laptops go missing 06/10/2004 07:44:02

    Employees of private and government organizations working with highly sensitive information are still failing to adequately secure laptops containing highly sensitive information, with a spate of recent robberies prompting a stiff warning from a former Australian intelligence chief.
 
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