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Recording New Guinea’s local languages MUSSE, September 2009 Associate Professor Steven Bird engaged in fieldwork this year that will help to preserve New Guinea’s threatened local languages. The resulting materials are to be stored in a digital archive for long-term preservation and access by students and researchers. |
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Cloud computing and content delivery networks Computerworld, September 2009 Computer Science & Software Engineering researcher, Dr James Broberg, is feaured in article about his cloud computing project, which enables low cost, high performance, content delivery networks via the cloud. |
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20th anniversary of the Internet in Australia Newsroom 24 June 2009 Director of e-Research, Professor Leon Sterling, says the University of Melbourne was chosen as the site for the nation’s first connection because they were leading Australia with UNIX technologies. |
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Cloud Computing The Age 19 February 2009 Dr James Broberg a computer researcher with the University of Melbourne, says several people in its Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) lab are using the cloud to tap into their data remotely. Dr Broberg had been interviewed on ABC Radio earlier in February regarding Google's search engine crash |
Highlights
Project funding for Mechatronics, Mechanical, Software and Electrical Engineering students
March 2010
Melbourne School of Engineering received $376,000 funding from DEEWR as part of the sixth round of the EU/Australia Joint Cooperation in Higher Education and Training projects. This will allow students undertaking Mechatronics, Mechanical, Software and Electrical Engineering at the University of Melbourne and local partner universities (RMIT and Curtin) to receive scholarships of $7000 to undertake their final year projects over four months at one of three European Universities (Technical University of Munich, Germany; University of Vigo, Spain; University of Lodz, Poland).
With engineering increasingly become a globally mobile profession, this will give students the opportunity to work in international teams, exposure to the European mechatronics industry as well as the experience of a lifetime. This program is a significant differentiator for the Melbourne engineering course, and is a further example of the possible opportunities for students in the School of Engineering.
Part of the funding will also be used to prepare a Mechatronics subject that builds on the distributed expertise across the six partner universities. Students interested in applying for the program over the period 2010-2012, should contact Dr Chris Manzie (manziec@unimelb.edu.au).
New Professor
September 2009
The Dean of Engineering, Professor Iven Mareels, is proud to announce the promotion of Rajkumar Buyya to Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering
- Prof Rajkumar Buyya's profile
Informatics students compete against the top 100 in the Battle of the Brains
23 April 2009
The 33rd ACM International Collegiate Programming Contest (ICPC), also know as the Battle of the Brains, challenges students to solve real-world computer programming problems within a five-hour deadline.
The World Finals were held in April 2009 in Stockholm. The University of Melbourne team finished in (equal) 20th place, correctly solving 5 out of the 10 contest problems. This year 100 teams competed in the World Finals, and over 7000 teams competed in the qualification rounds. All of the Melbourne team members are in their second year of New Generation degrees, and they competed against students from all levels, including Postgraduates.
Pictured left to right: Victor Lei, Christopher Chen and Angus McInnes (Picture courtesy of MUSSE)
- The scoreboard
- The Melbourne team receiving their South Pacific Champions plaque
- An earlier story about the team, including interviews
Raj Buyya wins IEEE Medal
16 April 2009
Computer Science and Software Engineering Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya has been awarded the 2009 IEEE Medal for Excellence in Scalable Computing in recognition for his significant contribution and high quality research to the scalable computing community.
He was awarded the medal for pioneering the economic paradigm for utility-oriented distributed computing platforms such as Grids and Clouds, and serving with distinction the scalable computing community as the foundation Chair of the Technical Committee on Scalable Computing.
Earlier this year Associate Professor Rajkumar Buyya also won an award for Excellence in Research which is a testament to all his hard work in this area.
As part of the award, Associate Professor Buyya will present the opening keynote at the CCGrid 2009 Conference, May 18-21, in Shanghai, China.
- Announcement on the IEEE website
- Associate Professor Raj Buyya Research Profile
- The Grid Computing and Distributed Systems (GRIDS) Laboratory, Raj's Research Group
- CCGrid 2009 Conference website
Revolutionary high speed 'Cloud' computing software announced by new University of Melbourne start-up
UniNews, November 2008
Revolutionary new software which harnesses the power of networked computers to analyse data at high speeds is being developed by new start-up company Manjrasoft Pty Ltd and researchers within the University of Melbourne, Australia. The technology enables Cloud computing, the next generation of utility/distributed computing, supporting high speed application processing across Windows desktops and servers. Read the full Cloud Computing story at UniNews