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  • NICTA eyes new lab

    The creation of a working bionic eye will be the focus of a new research laboratory being built by NICTA at its Research Laboratory premises in Melbourne.

  • NICTA offers free elefant

    An element of the backbone software behind the Roads and Traffic Authority (RTA)’s traffic monitoring toolkit has been released as open source by National ICT Australia (NICTA). The machine learning system, dubbed Elefant — Efficient learning, large-scale inference and optimisation toolkit — allows large amounts of data to be automatically analysed, interpreted and summarised.

  • NCITA spin out scores $4M in funds

    National ICT Australia (NICTA) spin-out, [[xref: http://www.audinate.com|Audinate]], has secured a further $4 million in venture capital funding to develop high performance TCP/IP networking equipment.

  • E-government cluster boots up with $250k funding

    A technology cluster aimed at supporting and strengthening government ICT industries in Australia will inject $150,000 into the industry in 2010, with a commitment for a further $100,000 per annum through to 2011-12.

  • New Linux-based technology to make ‘smarter’ GPS

    Sick of having your GPS tell you to turn the wrong way up a one-way street or lead you to a dead end? Fear not: Linux-based technology developed at NICTA is on its way to help make personal navigation systems more accurate.

  • Conroy kicks off ICT careers week

    Communications minister Stephen Conroy today launched the second ever National ICT Careers Week, touting that now is the perfect time to begin an ICT career.

  • NICTA opens its software to the world

    Research organisation National ICT Australia (NICTA) has stepped up its support for open source software by launching the OpenNICTA portal where people can view and download software developed and licensed by the organisation.

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