Tag: science

Hardware

Brits to scrap 'dull' school ICT program

By Liam Tung | Jan 12, 2012 | Comment Now

Excel courses get 'computer science' revamp.

Hardware

Adelaide uni to give science students iPads

By Ry Crozier | Sep 14, 2010 | Comment Now

Replaces textbooks with "open source" courseware.

Oddware

Nasa calls game over on Mars Phoenix lander

By Iain Thomson | May 26, 2010 | Comment Now

Ice proves fatal to exploration system.

Strategy

Tas Premier appoints himself innovation minister

By Liz Tay | Apr 22, 2010 | Comment Now

New Ministry of Innovation, Science and Technology announced.

Training & Development

Feds kick off Super Science Fellowships

By Liz Tay | Apr 12, 2010 | Comment Now

$27.2m on offer to early-career researchers.

Training & Development

University joy as first round tech offers rise

By Ry Crozier | Jan 28, 2010 | 2 Comments

Too early to call an end to student decline.

Networking

CSIRO wi-fi developer scoops top science prize

Oct 29, 2009 | Comment Now

And a $300,000 grant from the Prime Minister.

Networking

Internet breaches the final frontier

By Sylvie Barak | Oct 28, 2008 | Comment Now

Internet creator looks to the stars for his next project.

Finance

Intel opens its wallet for science

By Shaun Nichols | Oct 22, 2008 | Comment Now

Chipmaker Intel has launched a new program in hopes of training young engineers. The company said today that it would be spending some US$120 million over the next ten years as ...

Software

DSTO opens new Sydney research centre

By Ry Crozier | Aug 20, 2008 | Comment Now

The Defence Science and Technology Organisation (DSTO) has completed the modernisation of its research facilities nationwide with the opening of a new centre in Sydney.

Hardware

'Lecture Notes in Computer Science' series reaches publishing milestone

Jul 9, 2008 | Comment Now

Scientific publishing house Springer has published the 5,000th volume of its Lecture Notes in Computer Science (LNCS) series.

Hardware

'Intrepid' supercomputer fastest for science

By Clement James | Jun 19, 2008 | Comment Now

The US Department of Energy's (DoE) high performance computing system is now the fastest supercomputer in the world for open science, according to the Top 500 list of the ...

Strategy

US remains science and tech superpower

By Robert Jaques | Jun 13, 2008 | Comment Now

The US remains the dominant world power in science and technology, a new US Federal government-sponsored report claims today..

Hardware

Clarke inspires science from beyond the grave

By Iain Thomson | Apr 25, 2008 | Comment Now

The impact of science fiction writer Arthur C Clarke is still being felt, following the news that two more of his ideas are being researched for real..

Telco/ISP

'Spooky' science points to quantum internet

By Robert Jaques | Sep 7, 2007 | Comment Now

Physicists at the University of Michigan have demonstrated how two separate atoms can communicate with a sort of 'quantum intuition' which Albert Einstein referred to as "spooky".