National ICT Australia
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National ICT Australia Limited (also known as NICTA) is Australia's national information and communication technology research centre of excellence. It was founded in 2002 to provide benefit to Australia through research into computer science, software engineering, telecommunications, electrical engineering, and related disciplines. It was established as part of an Australian Government initiative to promote science and innovation called Backing Australia's Ability. NICTA was intended to address a previously identified weakness in long-term strategic ICT research in Australia. The initial research groups in NICTA were formed by acquiring some existing research groups at the University of New South Wales and Australian National University for its Sydney and Canberra laboratories. NICTA also later acquired some research groups from the University of Melbourne, University of Queensland, Griffith University, and the Queensland University of Technology for its newer Melbourne and Brisbane laboratories. Additionally, NICTA has attracted staff from Australia and around the world to undertake it research agenda.
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[edit] Locations
NICTA has over 500 staff and students spread across five cities.
NICTA has research laboratories in:
- Australian Technology Park, Sydney
- Neville Roach Laboratory, Kensington, Sydney
- Northbourne Avenue, Canberra
- Adelaide Street, Brisbane
- University of Melbourne, Melbourne
NICTA also has an education unit in Adelaide.
[edit] Research programs
NICTA’s researchers specialise in a variety of fields that include telecommunications; software engineering; wireless communications and networking; information management; human machine interaction; and robotics and vision systems. The programs do not operate in isolation: NICTA projects act as the link between multiple specialist programs, other research organisations, and industry.
The current programs at NICTA are:
- Safeguarding Australia
- Embedded, Real-Time, and Operating Systems
- Empirical Software Engineering
- Formal Methods
- Knowledge Representation and Reasoning
- Logic and Computation
- Network Information Processing
- Networks and Pervasive Computing
- Network Technologies
- Sensor Networks
- Statistical Machine Learning
- Systems Engineering And Complex Systems
- Symbolic Machine Learning and Knowledge Acquisition
- Wireless Signal Processing
- Vision Science, Technology and Applications
[edit] Research Structure
As well as background research conducted in research programs, NICTA researchers may be allocated to research projects, which have a defined scope and duration. Research projects are the main mechanism for NICTA's collaboration with external parties.
NICTA has two priority challenge research areas, which provide a unifying focus to much of the research in the organisation:
- Trusted Wireless Networks - To enable greater confidence, freedom, and capability through improved efficiency, reliability, and security of all wireless environments.
- Data to Knowledge - To produce social, environmental, and economic value from the gathering and use of information.
