Tag: CSIRO

Parliament green lights CSIRO’s $18m climate lab upgrade

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
The CSIRO’s main Melbourne site will receive an $18 million upgrade to help accommodate the arrival of climate researchers from a nearby mothballed lab, after Parliament approved the fit...

Industry data classifications to help manage breach risk

Posted on   |  by Joseph Brookes
Australian organisations now have access to a free government tool to classify and label the data they hold to ensure appropriate protections are in place and they can follow...

Aussie-first photonic chip packaging centre lands in Queensland

Posted on   |  by Justin Hendry
Queensland has become home to an Australian-first CSIRO facility for packaging and testing photonic chips, a key building block for advanced sensors and quantum computing systems. The Queensland Advanced...

Gig Guide: Microsoft names local finance chief

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Microsoft has appointed Christopher Healey as chief financial officer for Australia and New Zealand, marking his return home after more than seven years based at the company’s Seattle headquarters. Mr...

National missions and the gravity of market vision

Posted on   |  by James Riley
Larry Marshall spends a lot of time talking about ‘market vision’ these days and how the concept can be applied to a national innovation system. Australia, he says, needs...

CSIRO restructure more about industry than science

Posted on   |  by James Riley
For a first-time speaker at the National Press Club this week, CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton did a remarkably good job, given that he overseen the forced departure of...

Gig Guide: Monash locks in quantum luminary as research lead

Posted on   |  by David Allen
Monash University has secured one of Australia’s top quantum minds, appointing Muhammad Usman to lead its faculty of information technology’s quantum research. Dr Usman founded the quantum computing research...