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• NICTA Victoria creates director role

  National ICT Australia (NICTA) has hired Professor Jack Singh for the newly created role of Victoria director.

• Smart city apps to alleviate Melbourne’s infrastructure problems

  More than 100 developers got together during a hackathon last week in Melbourne to tackle some of the biggest infrastructure-related problems such as traffic congestion, safety issues and pollution.

• How tech IP is going to put Australia on the world innovation map

  With natural resources drying up, countries should turn to their human resources and build innovative technologies that they can export to the rest of the world, according to speakers at an Amazon Web Services roundtable held in Sydney this week.

• NICTA to develop algorithms for optimising joint gas and electricity networks

  NICTA will develop a new algorithms to help multiple gas and electricity providers integrate and optimise their networks using predictive data modelling and optimisation.

• AI software in freight logistics, gamification in universities feature in state iAwards

  Artificial intelligence software for freight logistics at Tip Top Bakeries and game simulations used at the University of Wollongong and Macquarie University were among the 2014 iAward winners for New South Wales.

• Budget 2014 - Government to end support for NICTA

  The government will end financial support for NICTA from June 2016, with the organisation forced to fend for itself under measures announced in tonight’s budget.

• Smart cities: using data to shape our urban environments

  Scarce resources, an ever-growing population, natural disasters and many other factors mean we need to be smart about the way we manage the environments we live in.

• NICTA concerned over IT security brain drain

  Australia needs to create a cybersecurity ecosystem of companies so there are more opportunities for computer scientist and software engineering graduates according to NICTA software systems research group leader Scientia Professor Gernot Heiser.

• NICTA confirms Victorian job cuts

  National ICT Australia (NICTA) has confirmed that redundancies are planned at its Victorian Research Laboratory (VRL) after the Victorian state government announced funding reductions.

• Industry welcomes ICT education funding

  Industry groups have welcomed the federal government’s additional funding to encourage students to become more involved in ICT education.

• In pictures: NICTA TechFest Canberra

  Parliament House in Canberra was buzzing this week as National ICT Australia (NICTA) exhibited the latest broadband, digital economy and technology innnovations. NICTA partnerships with Sydney Water and Infosys were launched on the day.

• NICTA and Infosys sign ICT research collaboration deal

  National ICT Australia (NICTA) and technology services firm Infosys will be conducting research into technology problems which affect businesses such as cloud computing resiliency.

• Sydney Water and NICTA partner to predict water pipe breakages

  Sydney Water has teamed up with National ICT Australia (NICTA) to predict water pipe breakages before they happen using NICTA’s machine learning technology.

• NICTA to help protect the US' drone fleet

  Australia’s government-funded organisation NICTA will help protect the US from cyber attacks to its drones in an US$18 million project.

• Canberra student takes out top ‘Unleash Your App’ award

  A Canberra undergraduate student has taken out the top ‘Unleash Your App’ award after developing an Android app for public transport users.