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Search begins for quantum growth centre operator

The federal government has begun accepting pitches from quantum computing companies to establish the Australian Centre for Quantum Growth, almost six months after the initiative was funded. A grant of up to $18.5 million over four years is now on offer to a consortia of organisations wanting to set

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ACS chief executive Chris Vein set to retire

Australian Computer Society chief executive Chris Vein is set to leave the information technology professionals association at the end of this month after a year-and-a-half in the top job. Mr Vein, who moved from the US to Australian for the role, will retire at the end of December with

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Ex-McKinsey manager named govt’s ‘chief consultant’

Private sector consultants turned public servants will lead the Albanese government’s new in-house consultancy, which was swamped with almost 1000 applications for less than 20 roles. The top job of chief consulting officer has gone to Andrew Nipe, a former McKinsey and Bain consultant who spent the last decade

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Home-grown AI is a key building block for our future

What were the most important achievements of the Morrison government? I asked Microsoft Bing chat. Alongside managing the COVID-19 pandemic, the AI chatbot nominated AUKUS, the trilateral security pact between Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. The pact aims to bolster deterrence and cooperation in the Indo-Pacific

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Gig Guide: Fresh CEO for research translation venture BioCurate

The new chief executive of the University of Melbourne and Monash University’s research translation joint venture BioCurate is Dr Kathy Nielsen, who moves from her role leading Monash’s commercialisation team. Dr Nielsen has more than 25 years’ of experience in life sciences, of which six and a half years

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Our defining decade: Net zero ambition meets RealpoliTech

We are three years into what federal Treasurer Jim Chalmers calls The Defining Decade. By his own count, he has given thirteen speeches on it since he first espoused the label in a National Press Club address in February. Earlier this month, the Treasurer net zeroed in on it

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The Australians building biological data centre tech

“In our lab in Melbourne, we’re building the world’s first neural data centre,” explains Hon Weng Chong, whose fusion of biological computing with traditional tech has caught Amazon’s eye for its groundbreaking approach to energy and cooling.  Werner Vogels, the chief technology officer at global giant Amazon,

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Fostering talent that is hiding in plain sight

The Australian Public Service in 2023 is faced with an extraordinary opportunity to reset its contribution to supporting the government of Australia and all Australians.  Four events occurring almost simultaneously have led to this. Firstly, the election of a new Labor government promising to reduce spending and dependency on

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A year of ChatGPT: 5 ways the AI marvel has changed the world

OpenAI’s artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot ChatGPT was unleashed onto an unsuspecting public exactly one year ago. It quickly became the fastest-growing app ever, in the hands of 100 million users by the end of the second month. Today, it’s available to more than a billion people via Microsoft’s Bing

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