Today 38 Australian universities held their first joint meeting to tackle what some have described as a "catastrophic" drop in the numbers of Australian students enrolling in information and communications technology courses.
WA is hoping local students will develop a new love for IT, with the announcement of AU$30,000 in funding for hands-on programs to boost school pupils' enthusiasm for computer science.
The next breakthrough in the study of diseases such as cancer may come from a digital mind, with the University of Melbourne and the Victorian government planning to invest AU$100 million in a supercomputer devoted to the life sciences.
A team of Australian scientists have demonstrated a photonic chip that boosts the data rate of fibre-optic connections by more than 64 times to 640Gbps, promising faster, cheaper internet for all.
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Until this month, we had no uniform-approach ICT curricula in higher education institutions, and no formal link connecting these institutions with industry.
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The University of Calgary is offering a class in which students will write and test their own viruses--a move that has touched off a wave of criticism within the antivirus community.
An Australian researcher has come up with a concept to develop a technology which can store 1000 times more information on computer hard drives than is currently available, and at much faster speeds.
As interest in nanotechnology peaks, scientists are claiming a significant breakthrough with the ability to make atoms move one by one.
Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
The possible ill effects on human health of mobile phones and towers will be studied at a virtual centre comprised of research organisations from Victoria and South Australia.
Scientists experiment with a molecular-scale storage device that can be read like Braille and could lead to systems that hold nearly 100 gigabits of data per square inch.
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