ISSUE 12 December 2007
www.nicta.com.au
NICTA preparing for the future
NICTA is committed to being a world-class ICT You can read more about the ISAG and IBAG
research institute. To ensure we reach this high meeting in an article in this newsletter.
standing our executive team consults regularly
Also during the ISAG/IBAG meeting, two new
with our Board of Directors and advisory groups.
initiatives were explained to our advisory group
The role of these groups is to ensure NICTA’s
members.
strategic research and commercial initiatives The steering committee also includes senior
are constructively scrutinised by internationally The first is a new Project that builds on NICTA’s representatives of major Australian and
respected figures. previous work with the Australian Institute of multinational corporations including ResMed,
Sport (a program of the Australian Sports Cochlear, Microsoft, Canon Information Systems
The International Science Advisory Group (ISAG)
Commission). Research Australia (CISRA), iTech Corporation
and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG)
provide external advice to the NICTA board. Their The Project, titled “Body Area Networks of and Invetech.
charter is to help generate NICTA’s long-term Embedded Systems for Humans” or BANESH, A launch of the cluster, held on December 11
strategic vision in research and examines the use of microprocessors and at the NSW Premier’s Reception Room, was
commercialisation. miniature transmitters to interpret attended by around 120 people. An Australia-
information from small, smart devices used wide industry survey, which will help Australian
These groups include many high-profile national
for biometric monitoring. businesses to better understand its capability in
and international members of the academic,
research and business communities. At present, elite athletes are monitored by Embedded Systems and related areas is
coaches under special laboratory conditions to underway.
In August, the ISAG and IBAG members met in
ensure safety and peak competitive output. The Future project ideas under consideration by the
Melbourne for the fifth year running. We are
problem with this is that coaches are unable to cluster include: technology road mapping for
delighted to report that at this annual meeting
interpret the data collected in real-time so as to Australia, collaborative industry projects, and
of NICTA’s advisory groups, the members said
make instant adjustments to training regiments. promotion of embedded systems skills in
NICTA is making great progress.
The aim of the BANESH Project is to collect data secondary schools.
Since the members of the ISAG and IBAG last
from small inexpensive sensors and transform To learn more about the cluster, please email
met with NICTA 12 months ago, we have spun
the data into useful information in real time. Peter Edmonds at ESA@nicta.com.au.
out three companies, improved our strategic
approach across our research and business Through the use of machine learning techniques This issue of NICTA News also reports on two
areas and strengthened our education portfolio. – such as smart processing algorithms to exciting new technology licenses signed with
segment data – NICTA is working now with the NICTA. The first, for technology developed in
NICTA’s people are outstanding. We have 419
AIS to identify patterns in data already collected NICTA’s Managing and Monitoring the Internet
staff and 297 NICTA-enhanced PhD students. We
from athletes. (MAMI) Project, is with Optium, a leading supplier
are getting some truly excellent research results
and we have a strong commercialisation pipeline The Project will utilise NICTA’s expertise in a of high-performance optical subsystems. The
supported by a growing entrepreneurial culture. number of areas and will use a critical mass second, a software license for intellectual
The number of collaborations with industry, both of researchers. The BANESH Project will also property created in NICTA’s Smart Cars Project.
domestic and internationally, is growing. provide excellent opportunities for NICTA to It is with Sydney road infrastructure company
collaborate with industry to address issues of Pavement Management Services.
The three-day ISAG/IBAG event included
national and international concern. I hope you enjoy this edition of NICTA News! All
presentations by the NICTA executive team on
NICTA’s research structure, commercialisation I also want to bring to your attention a new of us at NICTA wish you a happy and safe time
processes, an update on the progress of our industry cluster that NICTA is chairing. The over the Christmas and New Year festive period.
spin-out companies and education initiatives. Embedded Systems Australia (ESA) cluster is
chaired by NICTA’s CTO, Embedded Systems,
In delivering a feedback session to NICTA, Regards,
Dr Chris Nicol.
ISAG member, MIT Professor Rodney Brooks
said NICTA was very clearly on a track to Embedded Systems Australia is a joint initiative
success and the sort of advice the advisory of NICTA, the Australian Electronics and Electrical
groups were offering this year had moved into Manufacturers Association (AEEMA), The Warren
the “tweak phase”. Centre for Advanced Engineering (within the
University of Sydney), and the NSW Government David Skellern
Among other comments, he said the advisory
through the Department of State and Regional Chief Executive Officer
groups felt NICTA’s research structure and
Development (DSRD).
business development process was now
appropriate and clear.
The imagination driving Australia’s ICT future.
NICTA realising vision for
Canberra’s ICT knowledge
precinct with new Laboratory
CONTENTS The Canberra operations of NICTA has moved
into its new premise, which is set to become
A series of 10 paintings gifted by local artist
Nicola Sasanelli AM will adorn the walls of
the hub of innovative ICT activity in the NICTA’s new Canberra Research Laboratory.
1 Letter from the CEO - Australian Capital Territory. Adj Prof Sasanelli is the Scientific and
NICTA preparing for the future Technology Attaché at the Italian Embassy
Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister
in Canberra.
Mr Jon Stanhope officially opened NICTA’s new
2 Canberra Building Opening facilities on December 12, which brings The series of paintings are a tribute to
together NICTA’s three offices in Canberra. scientists who have changed the world, such
3 NICTA’s Advisory Groups meet as Pythagoras, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles
Around 200 people attended the festive-
Darwin and Albert Einstein.
in Melbourne themed opening in the new Canberra Lab.
“I am very happy to see my paintings hanging
The NICTA Laboratory is located within the
4 NICTA’s Commercialisation team new 6800 m2, A-grade, 4-star
in NICTA’s new Laboratory,” Adj Prof Sasanelli
said. “This project was born from a personal
environmentally-friendly building on London
5 NICTA signs technology passion for abstract art I have nurtured over
Circuit, adjacent to The Australian National
the years and from the desire to stimulate
transfer deals University (ANU).
more aggressive marketing policies for
The $60 million commercial development by scientific and technological research.”
6 NICTA’s research into Gigabit developer Leighton Properties will be used
Laboratory Director for the Canberra Research
Wireless as a base to help grow and develop ICT
Laboratory Dr David Everitt is thrilled the
research in Australia and the Australian
paintings will be housed at NICTA’s new
7 NICTA Lab News Capital Territory.
Canberra facility. “Nicola’s paintings are
“NICTA’s new laboratory in West Civic is an vibrant and depict a real passion for the
8 Stop Press & Events important piece of the West City knowledge revolutionary work undertaken by these
precinct that is forming around ANU scientists, I am sure they will be a real
Exchange,” NICTA Chairman Mr Neville inspiration to the outstanding researchers
Stevens AO said. working at this Lab,” Dr Everitt said.
“With the completion of the new research NICTA’s imaginative and ground-breaking
facility on London Circuit, the Canberra and research is placing Australia at the forefront
ACT community have an iconic global of global ICT research and its researchers
landmark which will reflect the true innovation are developing technologies that meet the
of Canberra’s world-class ICT research,” current and future needs of society. At the
he said. opening today, NICTA demonstrated its work
to VIPs in areas such as Intelligent Transport
“NICTA’s researchers are already producing
Systems, medical imaging and statistical
new knowledge and techniques and are
machine learning.
putting their imagination to work with local
small and medium businesses on significant The ACT government, in addition to The
technology break-throughs which will benefit Australian National University, the NSW
the Canberra community and the nation.” Government and the University of NSW, is a
foundation member of NICTA and has played
an integral part in building NICTA into a world-
class ICT research institute.
Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon
Stanhope and NICTA Chair Neville Stevens officially
opening NICTA’s new Canberra Lab
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“The ISAG and IBAG members met in
Melbourne for the fifth year running.”
L to R: Prof Jeffrey Ullman, Prof Dieter
Rombach, Mr Duane Zitzner, Ms Heather Killen,
Prof Craig Mudge and Prof Rodney Brooks
NICTA’s Advisory Groups
meet in Melbourne
NICTA’s two advisory groups met in The advisory groups had a number of 2007 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS
Melbourne between 29-31 August to primary recommendations for the year ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERSHIP
discuss the organisation’s progress during ahead for NICTA.
the year, the members believe NICTA is Mr Duane Zitzner, HP, Executive Vice
“We think Australia, the government and President, Retired
making great progress.
the country at large under-appreciate the
The three-day event included importance of ICT,” Professor Brooks said. Mr Narayana Murthy, Infosys, Chief
presentations by the NICTA executive team Mentor Officer and co-founder of
“We believe Australia needs both NICTA and
on NICTA’s research structure, Infosys
the CSIRO ICT Centre, but NICTA needs to
commercialisation process, an update
be more visible, part of becoming more Prof. Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge
on the progress of our spin-out companies
visible is having NICTA’s fingers reach
and education initiatives.
across more boundaries.” Mr Bob Bishop, Silicon Graphics,
A number of researchers also presented Vice Chairman & former CEO
With regards to NICTA’s commercialisation
updates on key NICTA projects including
process, Professor Brooks said the Ms Heather Killen, Hemisphere
BANESH, Supercom and Gigabit Wireless.
Australian landscape was unique and the
Capital, Founder & Managing
Under the influence of the International pipeline development process in this
Business Advisory Group (IBAG) and country needed to be different to that in Partner
International Science Advisory Group other parts of the world.
(ISAG), NICTA’s strategic research and 2007 INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE
“Australia in unique and has its own model,
commercial initiatives are constructively ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERSHIP
but continuing to benchmark internationally
scrutinised by leading international figures.
is important.” Dr Jean Vuillemin, Ecole Normale
On the last day of the meeting, ISAG Superieure & former Scientific
Professor Brooks added that the
member, MIT Director Professor Rodney Director, INRIA
development of several IT platforms within
Brooks, moderated a feedback session
NICTA was a good way for NICTA to get its
which was relayed via video-conference to Prof. Dieter Rombach, Fraunhofer
brand name out in the marketplace. “It is
all NICTA labs. Institute for Experimental Software
also an alternative way to capitalise on
“The sort of advice we are giving is in the NICTA’s intellectual property.” Engineering, Executive Director; and
‘tweak’ phase,” Professor Brooks said. “It Director of ICT Cluster
is really about tuning where you are going.”
Prof. Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford,
He said the advisory groups felt NICTA’s Professor Emeritus of Computer
research structure and business Science
development process were now clear.
Prof. Rodney Brooks, MIT, Director,
“We are impressed that Melbourne is now
on line and there is thrust in the life Computer Science and Artificial
sciences area.” Intelligence Laboratory
Professor Brooks said NICTA’s Bionic Eye Dr Stuart Feldman, Google Labs
project was “inspiring and important”. He Ease Coast, Vice President
said the projects up and running in the life Engineering
sciences area would provide opportunities
for “tremendous” long-term pay off. In July 2007 Sir John Taylor FRS,
FREng, Roke Institute, Chairperson
was newly appointed to the ISAG.
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The RoboFiddler team in Berlin
“NICTA has a commercialisation pipeline,
three companies have already spun-out.”
NICTA’s
Commercialisation Team
The commercialisation of intellectual NICTA’s strategies for successful
property (IP) developed through world- commercialisation include: NICTA’s new Director of
class research is fundamental to NICTA’s • Ensuring NICTA has a clear, fast and Commercialisation, Rob Fitzpatrick, has
mission of facilitating technology transfer flexible IP Framework as a foundation an extensive background in business and
and creating channels to market for for commercialisation and industry technology in the ICT sector globally,
NICTA research. partnerships including management, consulting,
NICTA stimulates technology transfer through • Identifying and funding the development start-ups and business development for
a range of approaches including start-up of proof-of-concept and working models large corporates.
companies, technology licensing, to demonstrate market application
collaborations with the Australian Mr Fitzpatrick is well regarded within
• Assisting with the creation of and access industry, specifically for his roles as part
information and communications technology
to capital for spin-out companies and of the team that set up and ran online
(ICT) sector and working with industries
business partnerships
outside the ICT sector. grocer ShopFast and as a consultant
• Developing domain applications in for over seven years with worldwide
NICTA has a commercialisation pipeline.
partnerships with industries that are major management consultancy McKinsey
Already three companies – Open Kernel
users of ICT. & Company, consulting to clients in
Labs, Audinate and 7-ip - have spun out of
NICTA and a number of Projects are moving NICTA has assembled a team of experienced Australia, Europe, the US and Asia.
through the pipeline. business development professionals to
Since 2003, he has maintained an
ensure researchers achieve commercial
NICTA has a rigorous commercialisation active portfolio of information and
impact with their research.
process, the stages in the pipeline include: communications technology businesses
Rob Fitzpatrick started as NICTA’s Director including HeardIT and a number of other
• Market Engagement: This stage
of Commercialisation in November and will technology start-ups.
encompasses general industry
be responsible for NICTA’s Business
development activities, market
Development and Industry Liaison activities “NICTA gives me the opportunity to work
intelligence, industry clusters, IP
[see breakout box]. with some of Australia’s and the world’s
protection and collaborations
His team has a strong commercial focus. leading ICT researchers,” Mr Fitzpatrick
• Business Development: This is the said. “Use-inspired research in the ICT
Most members have previous startup
formal stage of commercialisation. It
experience and several have worked for space will differentiate our future and
includes a four-step process to nurture
private and institutional investors. They have provide an opportunity to strengthen
the commercial success of our research
considerable experience in early stage Australia’s position on the global map.”
Projects
business strategy, new product
• Spin-outs and Licensing: NICTA’s main development, high technology sales and Mr Fitzpatrick will direct NICTA’s
commercialisation vehicles are spin-outs marketing and venture capital raising. commercialisation activities, developing
and licensing the business skills of NICTA’s research
project teams and where appropriate,
• Business Areas: NICTA’s Business Areas
are the market sectors where we seek the linking those projects with industry
majority of our use-inspiration. partners. This will help to further target
and refine NICTA’s research activities
and strengthen NICTA’s pipeline of
commercial opportunities.
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The NICTA-developed techniques will be used for highway and
pavement management by Pavement Management Services.
NICTA NICTA signs deal with Pavement
Management Services
NICTA inks deal for ground-breaking
technology for telcos
signs
NICTA has signed its first technology NICTA has signed a commercial license
transfer deal, a software licensing deal agreement with Optium, a leading supplier
with Sydney road infrastructure company of high-per formance optical subsystems,
technology Pavement Management Ser vices.
The agreement will enable Pavement
covering groundbreaking optical signal-to-
noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring technology.
transfer
Management Ser vices to rapidly This is the first technology licence
commercialise research from NICTA’s agreement for the Managing and
Smart Cars Project, which is based at Monitoring the Internet (MAMI) project,
deals NICTA’s Canberra Research Laborator y.
The Smart Cars Project uses computer
which is based at NICTA’s Victoria
Research Laborator y.
technology, particularly image analysis, NICTA’s new generation OSNR monitoring
to enable a safer driving experience. The technology is compatible with optical
goal of the project is not to create an switches, including reconfigurable optical
autonomous vehicle, but to provide input add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), and can
to the driver about road conditions, distinguish and measure the impairment
obstacles and potential hazards, letting caused by optical amplifier noise,
the driver retain control of the vehicle improving the ability to manage
while benefiting from the input from the telecommunications networks.
computer system.
“The licensed technology is the product
The particular NICTA-developed of a number of years of work by a team in
techniques to be used by Pavement NICTA’s Victoria Lab and represents the
Management Ser vices can automatically first of a number of exciting new related
detect, recognise and geographically pin- technologies due to be released by NICTA
point road signs using video-footage shot over the next twelve months,” NICTA Chief
from sur veying vehicles. Executive Officer, Dr David Skellern said
“We are ver y excited to be working with “This technology operates in-band
Pavement Management Ser vices and providing live information on actual
anticipate the relationship will help us to per formance and is faster and less
evolve our research and expand the complex than similar devices,” NICTA
commercial opportunities into Principal Researcher and MAMI Project
neighbouring areas,” NICTA Researcher Leader Mr Trevor Anderson said.
and Smart Cars project leader Dr Lars
Petersson said. “These advantages enable network-wide
awareness and significantly improves an
operator’s ability to manage high-speed
optical networks,” Mr Anderson said.
“The information provided by the monitor
will provide additional confidence in the
robustness of new high-speed networks
supporting highly efficient network
designs.”
“This is the beginning of what we expect
to be a long-term relationship with Optium
as a partner in the development and
commercialisation of optical networking
technologies coming out of NICTA,” NICTA
Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mr David
Wright said.
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NICTA’s research into
Gigabit Wireless
NICTA’s Gigabit Wireless Project has include integrated antenna, transmit and chip’s development. “They are a world
developed technology that will enable receive switches, power amplifier, radio, class group and there is great synergy
the future of data and media baseband and medium access controller. between the two groups.”
management and distribution around the
The end result of the technology could, for Sixteen researchers were recently made
office and the home.
example, mean you could join a high redundant from LSI Australia (formerly
In the not-too-distant future, existing indoor definition DVD player and a high definition Agere Systems) following the closure of
wireless networks will not be able to supply TV, NICTA Gigabit Wireless Project Leader their North Ryde research facility.
the required bandwidth to support content- Professor Stan Skafidas said.
The Australian Government announced
rich applications. To address this emerging
“Another application is there may not be in October an extra $4.8 million over
problem, NICTA is developing wireless
any video and DVD stores in the future, two years to NICTA to enable the
technology that will allow wireless
there will be kiosks that you walk up to and retention of the team of world-class
communication links of up to 5 Gb/s -
when you are near it you could download a researchers in Australia.
many orders of magnitude faster than
movie in a few seconds and watch it on
existing wireless technology, and available “NICTA identified an opportunity to merge
your video iPod or put the device near your
at a much lower cost. the LSI Australia-Agere team with an
plasma TV and beam the signal.
existing research effort to create state-of-
The radio frequency (RF) and mixed signal
“The technology will mean devices will the-art personal broadband wireless chips
components of this technology are
connect to each other wirelessly, leading which will enable people to transfer large
developed at the Victoria Research
to an improved user experience.” multi-media files, such as entire movies,
Laboratory in Melbourne and the Baseband
up to a thousand times faster than
and Medium Access Control components Prof Skafidas said the difference between
currently possible,” NICTA Chief Technology
are developed at NICTA’s Australian NICTA and other competitors is NICTA is
Officer of Embedded Systems Dr Chris
Technology Park Lab in Sydney. developing an integrated chip on a low cost
Nicol said.
electronic process, CMOS.
This achievement is made possible by the
NICTA’s Gigabit Wireless research Project
availability of unlicensed spectrum in the The research team are world leaders in
is collaborating with IBM T.J. Watson,
57 to 64 GHz band. NICTA’s researchers developing next generation millimetre-wave
Princeton University, and Georgia Institute
are taking advantage of the availability of systems on bulk CMOS
of Technology. The Project has also
7GHz of unlicensed spectrum to develop “We are the first group to have made great received significant industry support from
a low-cost, gigabit per second integrated progress in building an integrated radio on Cadence, Synopsys, Agilent, Anritsu,
millimetre-wave transceiver on the most CMOS,” Prof Skafidas said. Ansoft and Suss MicroTec.
widely used and inexpensive silicon
process technology, CMOS. Prof Skafidas said some of the NICTA Written by Professor Stan Skafidas
team’s competitors include UC Berkeley,
The use of millimetre-wave technology has which have spun out a company called
the advantage that it allows further SiBEAM, and research teams in Singapore
miniaturisation of components on a single and Europe.
chip and it also allows the integration of
antennas on the chip. Fabricated devices Prof Skafidas said the acquisition of the
LSI team will significantly contribute to the
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New NICTA researchers and management
at the Australian Government funding
announcement with Senator Helen Coonan.
NICTA Lab News
Canberra Research Laboratory Neville Roach Laboratory Summer Scholars Showcase was hosted
A new project is building critical mass (Kensington) by the Victoria Research Lab. Around 100
at the Canberra Research Laboratory. students attended the event. The event
A group of around 20 senior high-school demonstrated opportunities at NICTA
Building on previous work with the students from years 10 and 11 pondered
Australian Institute of Sport (a program whilst also offering an opportunity for the
the question about what will happen in students to interact with staff. This year
of the Australian Sports Commission), the future at a special workshop.
the Body Area Networks of Embedded students were also exposed to the
Students from local schools around Artemis Orchestra Program.
Systems for Humans, or BANESH Randwick, Kensington, Mascot and
Project, examines the use of micro Maroubra near the NICTA Research
processors and miniature transmitters Australian Technology Park
Laboratory at Kensington were invited
to interpret information from small, to participate. The Australian Government provided extra
smart devices used for biometric funding to NICTA to enable the
monitoring. NICTA has been running a series of ‘2020 organisation to hire researchers with
Vision’ foresighting workshops over the world-class skills in silicon chip design.
BANESH utilises NICTA’s expertise in last few months. These have involved The LSI Australia (formerly Agere
a number of areas and will use a critical CEOs, CIOs, opinion leaders and industry Systems) researchers were made
mass of researchers. analysts as well as NICTA research redundant following the closure of their
At present, elite athletes are monitored scientists and PhD students. North Ryde research facility.
by coaches under special laboratory NICTA will use the visions from the “Through this team Australia has
conditions to ensure safety and peak workshop to guide its future ICT research. developed a core competency in silicon
competitive output. The problem is
On Thursday 1 November a very chip design which is leading edge and
coaches are unable to interpret the data
unusual masterclass took place at the contributed to Australia’s ICT capability,”
collected in real-time so as to make
Lab when Sydney Youth Orchestra (SYO) NICTA’s Education Director Professor
instant adjustments to training regimens.
violinist Megan Lee led the award- Aruna Seneviratne said.
The aim of the BANESH Project is to
collect data from small inexpensive winning ‘RoboFiddler’ in a performance. The researchers will be working on
sensors and transform the data into The robotic violin player is sponsored wireless-related research within NICTA’s
useful information. by NICTA and was created by Embedded Systems Research Theme.
University of Adelaide mechatronics This research is developing next
Through the use of machine learning engineering students. generation wireless networks.
techniques – the use of smart
processing algorithms to segment data - Seventeen-year-old Megan Lee led The addition of the researchers to the
NICTA is working with the AIS to identify RoboFiddler in playing the two pieces it Gigabit Wireless Project team will
patterns in data which are already performed at the ARTEMIS competition. allow NICTA to fast-track research on
collected from athletes. “I am interested to see what kind of the technology.
A number of new staff also joined the sound RoboFiddler makes. But I think the The researchers will be based at the ATP
CRL in previous months. These include emotion and responsiveness of a real-life facilities and will be an important part of
Roy Yang, who is a user interface musician mean that the finest NICTA’s efforts in Embedded Systems.
programmer and will be working on the performances will always be by flesh and
BANESH project. Damian Merrick also blood!” Megan said. Queensland Research
joined NICTA to work in the BANESH NICTA Senior Research Engineer Dr John Laboratory
project, he will be working from the Judge said that the challenges for Professor Hans Burkhardt, a visiting
Australian Technology Park Laboratory. RoboFiddler are great: “RoboFiddler have researcher with the Queensland Research
Catherine Menon has started as a a long way to go, and participating in a Laboratory from the University of Freiburg
research programmer in the Managing masterclass with a real performer is part in Germany, and his team have just won
Complexity Theme. She works primarily of the next step to true musicality”. German Federal Government funding of
on the L4.verified project. Le Song, a PhD around 33 million euro over the next five
student will be working with the Statistical Victoria Research Laboratory years for a Centre of Biological Signalling
Machine Learning team. He will be From 6-7 December, NICTA hosted its Studies. Hans is currently working with
visiting NICTA until March 2008. Summer Scholars Showcase for NICTA- the SAFE Sensors team, which includes
funded undergraduate summer scholars Brian Lovell and his colleagues.
from our partner universities. This year’s
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STOP PRESS
• The IREE Neville Thiele Award is selected for the best paper award
Engineers Australia’s most at the Australian Artificial
prestigious award. Canberra Intelligence Conference which took
Research Laboratory researcher place on December 2-6 on the Gold
Dr Mark Reed has Dr Mark Reed has won this year’s
award. The award is named in honor
Coast. Martin is a PhD candidate at
the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität
won Engineers of A.N. (Neville) Thiele OAM, an
outstanding Australian Electronics
Freiburg in Germany. Jussi is a
Principal Researcher at NICTA’s
Australia’s most Engineer, former President of the
IREE and a world-renowned expert
Canberra Research Laboratory.
• Best Student paper award: Matt
prestigious award. on audio engineering standards and
the design of loudspeakers.
Ruan, 7th International Symposium
on Communications and Information
• Professor Brian Anderson has been Technologies ISCIT2007, “Turbo
honoured by His Majesty the Equalisation using Particle Filtering
Emperor of Japan by being awarded, with Grouping”, co-authored by Mark
on 3 November, The Order of the Reed and Zhenning Shi.
Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck
• Best Student paper award:
Ribbon. The award is for his
Roy Timo, Australasian
outstanding contribution in bringing
Telecommunications Networks and
Australia and Japan together in the
Applications Conference ATNAC
academic sphere, including the
2007, Christchurch, New Zealand,
scheme he initiated to invite
for the paper “Strong Stochastic
Japanese researchers to the ANU
Stabiity for Dynamic Source
and his ongoing collaboration with
Routing”, co-authored by Kim
Japanese researchers.
Blackmore and John
• Martin Wehrle and Jussi Rintanen’s Papandriopoulos.
“SAT Planning with a Relaxed
Definition of E-Step Plans” has been
EVENTS
Victoria Lab Seminar Short Courses • Systems Engineering Introduction
– 28 February 2008 (Canberra)
January 25 - Raghu Ramakrishnan, • Introduction to UAVs: Missions, Links
Vice President of Yahoo and Payloads – 18 - 19 February 2008 • Introduction to Sonar Signal Processing
(Adelaide) – 3 - 4 March 2008 (Fremantle)
Big Picture Series • Modern Digital Receiver Techniques: • Systems Engineering – 10 - 12 March
February/March - Jim Peacock, From Theory To Practice – 18 - 20 2008 (Brisbane)
Australia’s Chief Scientist February 2008 (Adelaide) • Systems Engineering Management –
• Introduction to Linux for Embedded 13 - 14 March 2008 (Brisbane)
Meet the Founder Developers – 21 - 22 February 2008 • Introduction to Digital Signal Processing
January - Michael Luther, (Wollongong) with FPGAs – 31 March 2008
CEO of Uplogix • Tactical Data Information Links (TADILS) (Australian Technology Park, Sydney)
– 26 - 27 February 2008 (Canberra)