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• Tim Catley new UNSW digital chief

  The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has appointed former Department of Home Affairs CIO, Tim Catley, as its new chief digital officer.

• Daniel Beecham quits as UNSW CDO

  The University of New South Wales’ chief digital officer, Daniel Beecham will leave in 2019 after spending only a year-and-a-half in the role.

• UNSW student designs system to improve IVF success rates

  A final year medicine student at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) has designed an artificial intelligence (AI) system that's helping women become pregnant using IVF techniques.

• Google Duplex should introduce itself as a robot: AI expert

  An artificial intelligence expert from the University of New South Wales has highlighted an ethical concern around Google Duplex, arguing that the AI technology should introduce itself as a robot.

• Introducing Australia’s first quantum computing hardware company

  Australia's first quantum computing hardware company launched today, with the goal of producing a 10 qubit integrated circuit prototype by 2022.

• ​CIO’s top priorities for 2017

  As 2017 swings into gear, Australian IT chiefs discuss their business and technology priorities for the year which include cybersecurity, artificial intelligence, augmented reality and customer experience projects.
  

• ​Look out DevOps specialists, the Brazilians are coming

  When Brazilian IT professional Hafid Sousa was looking to expand his career prospects with a move abroad, Australia was high on his radar.

• ​How Google is trying to close the tech gender gap

  In 2015, a Deloitte and Australian Computer Society report found that only 28 per cent of IT workers in Australia are women. Like most female senior IT execs, Google for Work’s country manager, Renee Gamble, wants that number to rise.

• ​UNSW appoints Kate Carruthers as chief data officer

  The University of New South Wales (UNSW) has appointed Kate Carruthers as chief data officer amid a restructure that has also seen the university remove the CIO and senior ICT change program director roles.
  

• ​Turnbull touts UNSW’s quantum capability as “world’s best”

  Prime minister, Malcolm Turnbull, has hailed the University of New South Wales’ quantum computing research as the “best in the world.”
  

• ​UNSW, CBA dump $1.6M into cyber security skills

  The University of New South Wales and Commonwealth Bank on Tuesday announced a partnership to develop a cyber security centre aimed at addressing the shortage of security engineering specialists.
  

• UNSW to offer first Australian course on cyber war and peace

  ​The University of New South Wales (UNSW) Canberra has announced it is opening a Masters in Cyber Security, Strategy and Diplomacy – Australia’s first ever course devoted to cyber war and peace.

• ​Researchers write quantum code in silicon

  Australian engineers have proven that a quantum version of computer code can be written, and manipulated, using two quantum bits in a silicon microchip.
  

• Researchers clear final quantum hurdle

  Researchers at the University of New South Wales say they have cleared the final hurdle to making silicon quantum computers a reality.

• Researchers find ancient volcanoes off Sydney coast

  Researchers have stumbled across four extinct volcanoes likely to be more 50 million years old around 250 kilometres off the coast of Sydney.