Security focus for $11.4m NSW deal with Data61
The New South Wales government has signed an $11.4 million agreement with the CSIRO’s Data61 arm.
The New South Wales government has signed an $11.4 million agreement with the CSIRO’s Data61 arm.
The CSIRO’s new supercomputer — dubbed ‘Bracewell’ after astronomer and engineer Ronald N. Bracewell — has gone live.
Data61 – the government’s digital innovation network – has celebrated its first birthday, bringing to a close what its CEO has called a “transition year”.
As one Australian Securities and Investments Commission employee put it at a RegTech event in Sydney earlier this week: “If fintech start-ups are tech rich and the banks are data rich then I think it’s fair to say that ASIC is text rich. Our regulatory guidance is all text based.”
A group representing businesses and research organisations is heading to New York to spruik the local work on developing technology inspired by and based on Bitcoin’s blockchain and similar distributed ledger technology.
Data61 CEO Adrian Turner has warned that the ‘fourth industrial revolution’ will destroy 40 per cent of Australian jobs over the next 15 years but says he is confident that new jobs will emerge to replace them.
Data61’s Strategy and Foresight team advises businesses and government bodies on how to prepare for the future digital economy. Dr Stefan Hajkowicz, a principal scientist in the team, says Australia’s prospects are not good.
The Data61 Cyber Security and Innovation Hub has formally launched in Melbourne.
The NICTA-developed super-secure seL4 microkernel will head into space later this year as one of a number of experiments set to be carried out by Australian built ‘CubeSats’. The federal government today said it had officially authorised the launch of three miniature ‘CubeSats’ as part of the QB50 project.
Liberal Member for Lindsay, Fiona Scott gave a buzz-word laden speech to the Australian technology press on the importance of digital innovation but when it came to the actual detail, Scott refused to be drawn.
Adrian Turner is only six months into his tenure as Data61’s chief executive, and while he says he is still “drinking from a fire hose” it hasn’t stopped the Silicon Valley veteran laying out an ambitious program for the organisation.
The open source, Australian-developed secure microkernel seL4 has hit version 2.0.0, the project has announced.
CSIRO's Digital Productivity business unit and NICTA researchers will come together to form a new entity called Data61 in July 2016.