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Universities are teaching methodologies five to ten years old, Beverley Head finds University computing schools aren’t turning out IT graduates with Agile computing skills as fast as businesses would like, leaving companies using the Agile approach to systems development with ...

Open source software has proved particularly popular among universities, as it is generally cheaper to buy and operate than proprietary systems, writes Beverley Head. Flinders and Monash Universities are the latest in a conga line of tertiary institutions making the ...

The demand for supercomputing power within universities keeps growing writes Beverley Head Commodity graphics processor chips used in games machines and mobile phones are revolutionising high performance processing and making significant inroads into university computing. While there will likely always ...

Keeping modern data centres powered and cooled is not a trivial exercise writes Beverley Head The IBM Blue Gene supercomputer at the University of Melbourne represents the pointy end of university computing today. But the power it provides could well ...

Like the ATN’s e-Grad school, an e-mathematics doctoral training centre will exist as a virtual community The Australian Technology Network is looking at new computer and communications technology to underpin the next phase of its collaborative program plans. The ATN ...

Universities and research organisations could enjoy network speeds thousands of times as fast as the NBN, writes Beverley Head. Australia’s Academic and Research Network, AARNet, plans a terabit per second communications trial for later this year and believes it will ...

Universities must decide whether to open up their learning management systems Deakin University is migrating its learning management system from Blackboard to a Canadian system called Desire2Learn, with plans to go live in 2011. To some extent the decision bucks ...

Data triggers feed into an automated wellness system to spot students at risk The University of New England is a front runner in a trend emerging in Australian universities to use business intelligence systems to identify which students are at ...

It’s long been mooted that the growth of e-books would sound the death knell of the traditional library as a warehouse of printed books. dio files and offers a platform for reading collaboration, allowing students or teachers to share information ...

The publication of data sets could swiftly become as important as publishing papers, thanks to a national initiative aimed at making data more easily accessed, shared and reused. The Australian National Data Service (ANDS) will allow researchers to perform a ...