Stories about: University of Sydney

In response to student demand for more flexible learning options, the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) is investigating the use of online technologies to supplement, or replace, lectures of the future.

Results of a high-tech research project to be released next week promise to finally unravel much of the remaining mystery of a 2,000-year-old astronomical calculator.

In a sign that Novell's new lease on life is garnering interest, some 200 people attended the Sydney leg of Novell's national Suse Linux Enterprise roadshow today.

Nerds FC star goal keeper, Trent Apted, takes some time out to tell Computerworld about the geekier side of his life. He discusses his PhD project which is exploring the potential of the "tabletop interface" as a platform for formal and informal face-to-face collaboration, multimedia display and exchange, information visualization and entertainment. He also discusses the highs and lows in the life of a programmer and gives his position on the Java versus C++ and open source versus closed source wars.

A two-day event for Year 9 to 12 school students in Perth, aims to be a showcase of technology careers, with organizers hoping the event will help counter the gender imbalance within the industry

The CSIRO ICT Centre announced today the spinoff of its Panoptic enterprise search technology to form a new company, dubbed Funnelback Pty Ltd.

Enabling people to access computers and collaborate on digital content without using the traditional computer, keyboard or mouse is part of the vision of researchers at the Smart Internet Technology CRC, which launched Project Nightingale this week.

A new Internet document classifications system which employs linguistics theory to identify online breaches of the Corporations Act is set to become the latest weapon in the Australian Securities and Investments Commission's (ASIC) arsenal against Australian Web scammers.