Stories about: CSIRO

With Linux and open source software, CSIRO’s mathematical and information sciences division is now able to model information for business benefit without relying on proprietary software, according to principal computer scientist for enterprise data mining Dr Graham Willliams.

CSIRO researchers are using a rival to MP3 as part of a new media format that they say will change the way we listen to, and watch, audio and video files.

The Australian UNIX and Open Systems User Group (AUUG) has released the program for its annual national technical conference, catering to open source software users, businesses, government agencies, developers and vendors.

Web users will soon be surfing video and audio content as easily as text and images thanks to some innovative Web tools being developed by CSIRO.

Hundreds of soccer playing robots will grab world attention next month at RoboCup 2003 in Padua, Italy, and Australia is poised to conquer the world again.

IBM has formed a joint venture with National ICT Australia (Nicta) to open its first Centre for Advanced Studies (CAS) outside North America. The centre will focus on open source software with the anticipation of attracting the attention of government and enterprise IT departments with the researchers primarily based at the University of New South Wales.

The open source JBoss application server, which for several years has been gaining on its commercial cousins in terms of performance and scalability, may have jumped the final hurdle to wider commercial adoption.

Antarctica is the continent renowned for being covered with ice and home to a handful of humans assigned to research posts. The other notable inhabitants of Antarctica are the variety of penguin species which call the frigid continent home. With the mascot of the world's fastest growing operating system, Linux, a slightly overweight penguin by the name of TUX, Computerworld Antarctica decided to take a peek at where and how Linux is being used on the southern icecap.

A three-year alliance between Compaq Computer Corp. and the Australian Partnership for Advanced Computing (APAC) will see the vendor provide its supercomputing technology to the partnership's national facility for research in all areas of science and engineering.

The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) is releasing a series of studies this month which evaluate a key technology for Internet-based computing.

National Science week saw the launch of Generation Linux, a series of Install-fests and seminars aimed at uniting science and Linux for students both young and old. This is a good sign that grass roots efforts in Australia's Linux community are alive and well: in the true tradition of Linux itself, Generation Linux posited information in the hands of the public -- a young and enthusiastic public at that!