Cyber security needs “rascals” not hand-raisers who won’t question authority. But the problem is that the education system is not typically geared towards generating the kind of rebellious spirits that the sector needs, according to UNSW professor of cyber security Richard Buckland.
The New South Wales government has committed $500,000 towards developing a University of Sydney proposal to boost postgraduate training and research focused on quantum computing.
Researchers at UNSW are using cutting-edge technology to derive insights from masses of new and historic data with the aid of a series of labs in what the university says is the most advanced facility of its kind.
UNSW’s chief digital officer Conrad Mackenzie has left the university after less than 12 months in the role.
Last month, global audit firm PwC posted a vacancy for an “AI Guru” at its Sydney office. The position required data analytics knowledge, experience in supervised and unsupervised machine learning, with basic programming and database ability an advantage.