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Photos: Angela Merkel tours NICTA

Showcasing the best of Australian/German collaboration.

on Nov 17 2014 12:52PM

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German Chancellor Angela Merkel has followed the weekend's G20 proceedings with a trip to Sydney to visit the National ICT Australia headquarters in Redfern. To welcome the German leader, NICTA put on a showcase of key German/Australian collaborations in its innovation portfolio, as well as some it hopes may pique the Chancellor’s interest enough to kick off new partnerships. (Photo: NICTA)

The tour showcased the NICTA-developed seL4 operating system, described by NICTA CEO Hugh Durrant-Whyte as “completely bug free and unhackable”. (Photo: Paris Cowan)

Professor Gernot Heiser from the University of NSW explained how the software partitions mission critical workloads from those parts of the operating system that are more vulnerable to attack. NICTA made the the code open source in recent years to encourage technologists to embed its “mathematically proven” security into the critical physical technologies, like heart pace-makers, cars and drones.

The software is based on the open source L4 system originally created by German computer scientist Jochen Liedtke and the current seL4 work involves a new generation of German collaborators.

Heiser wasn't able to display the seL4-based drone in flight, however - The Chancellor’s strict security demands meant it had to stay firmly grounded.

Michael Schulz, a German-Australian high school student, was one of the winners of the Young ICT Explorers initiative run by SAP and NICTA to encourage young people to study STEM subjects. (Photo: Paris Cowan)

Schulz demonstrated his Tricorder to the Chancellor - a Star Trek inspired device which integrates sensors with a hand-held computer to record and analyse the natural world, including readings of temperature, magnetic fields and background radiation.

Schulz hopes to take his Tricorder to Germany to showcase it at the German youth science competition Jugend Forst. A doctor of chemical physics herself, the Chancellor aims to spend up to an hour with the winners of the Jugend Forscht each year. (Photo: NICTA)

Durrant-Whyte and NSW chief scientist Mary O’Kane test out another youth invention, a high-tech light which changes colour according to the holder’s mood and body temperature, producing motivational messages on a connected website. (Photo: Paris Cowan)

The Future Logistics Living Lab, established with European researcher Fraunhofer and SAP, is investigating ways to improve supply chain logistics. One of NICTA’s key focuses is making commercial transport more efficient.

Interactive fleet optimisation has already saved George Weston foods more than $30 million per annum by using a NICTA-produced fleet optimisation tool which applies smart algorithms to make its bread distribution more efficient. (Photo: NICTA)

NICTA’s Neil Temperley was preparing to offer Chancellor Merkel the deal of a lifetime, to have his team optimise Germany’s trucking network for free - but to split the savings dividend 50/50. (Photo: Paris Cowan)

Another simple tool, presented here by NICTA's Rob Fitzpatrick, aims to minimise the volume of empty shipping containers being trucked back and forth on Australia’s roads, by matching up importers with recently emptied containers with their closest exporter online. It aims to reduce traffic to and from empty container parks by a third. (Photo: NICTA)

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