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• CSIRO ICT Centre Conference

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 435
  Greeting from the 2009 CSIRO ICT Centre Conference. Each year the CSIRO ICT Centre runs a conference for its own staff and invited guests. This year I have been helping with a project featured in the conference and so had the opportunity to attend. There are several hundred people at the conference, with two days of ...
  5 days ago

• CSIRO embroiled in censorship battle

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 139
  We reported here about how CSIRO had attempted to suppress the publication of a paper critical of the government’s ETS. Unfortunately, it seems the story just won’t go away: The CSIRO is grappling with claims it is trying to censor the work of an economist who has criticised the policy at the centre of the ...
  5 days ago

• CSIRO announces new food science head

  
  Australian Food News — Authority: 512
  Internationally recognised food scientist and science leader, Professor Martin Cole, will start as the Chief of CSIRO’s Division of Food and Nutritional Sciences (FNS) in January 2010.Professor Cole is currently Director of the National Centre for Food Safety and Technology (NCFST) in the United States and Research ...
  6 days ago

• Censorship alert

  
  Larvatus Prodeo — Authority: 575
  The World Today yesterday ran a story today about the CSIRO blocking a paper that had been accepted for publication by the journal New Political Economy after being internationally peer-reviewed. The had been submitted by Dr Clive Spash, a CSIRO ecological economist specialising in the interactions between the ...
  1 week ago

• CSIRO to replace toxic chromate with green Quench Coat in galvanizing operations

  
  Green Diary — Authority: 440
  Chromate might be an excellent corrosion inhibitor but its toxicity is always questionable. Providing galvanizers with a better substitute i.e. Quench Coat, Australia’s Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) scientists now hope to protect galvanized products from white rust and retain ...
  1 week ago

• CSIRO bid to gag ETS attack

  
  Australian Climate Madness — Authority: 139
  The CSIRO is supposed to be the nation’s top scientific body, but it is up to its neck in the grubby politics of climate change by attempting to silence a critic of the government’s oh-so-wonderful ETS: THE nation’s peak science agency has t ried to gag the publication of a paper by one of its senior ...
  1 week ago

• “CSIRO managers had written to the journal’s editor demanding the paper not be published.”

  
  IAIN HALL — Authority: 129
  When I first heard that the government of Brother Number One was planning to tackle “Global Warming” with an ETS I immediately had a vision of the great leader trying to control a very large bus from the back seat by tying a couple of strands of soggy spaghetti to the steering wheel and [...]
  1 week ago

• CSIRO’s national challenges for Australian science

  
  The Plummet Onions — Authority: 127
  Alright, I’m here in Sydney, and getting close to normal again. What better way to regain normality than regular blogging again? The Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) is Australia’s national science agency. They manage national R&D facilities and focus on several areas of ...
  1 week ago

• Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicles Could Power Your Home

  
  The Green Optimistic — Authority: 136
  Today the plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs) require an overnight charge back at your home. But scientists at Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO) have found a way to use these PHEVs as large mobile batteries that can be integrated and used in powering your home.
  1 week ago

• Scientists develop method to assess ecological risk

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Sydney, Oct 29 (IANS) Scientists have developed a method called ecological risk assessment (ERA) which can identify the dangers of different fishing practices.The method was developed by Tony Smith and Alistair Hobday from CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific Industrial Research Organisation) in association with the ...
  1 week ago

• “Father of WiFi” Finally Recognised

  
  TechNation Australia — Authority: 419
  John O’Sullivan, the leader of the team that pioneered the high-speed wireless network, has finally been officially recognised and rewarded by winning the Australian Prime Minister’s 2009 Prize for Science. Apart from the prestige, the prize comes with a AUD$300K (~US$280K) grant. The prize was announced last ...
  1 week ago

• “Father of WiFi” Finally Recognised

  
  The Next Web — Authority: 775
  John O’Sullivan, the leader of the team that pioneered the high-speed wireless network, has finally been officially recognised and rewarded by winning the Australian Prime Minister’s 2009 Prize for Science. Apart from the prestige, the prize comes with a AUD$300K (~US$280K) grant. The prize was announced last ...
  1 week ago

• Plug-in hybrid electric vehicles may soon power our homes

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 725
  Sydney, October 28 (ANI): Researchers at CSIRO in Australia are running a road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles (PHEVs), which can ultimately be used as large mobile batteries that can be integrated and used in the home.CSIRO engineers have modified the PHEVs to carry a 30Ah NiMH battery which is capable of ...
  1 week ago

• Australian prime minister honours scientist behind wi-fi

  
  TelcoNews.com - Telecom and VoIP Industry News — Authority: 436
  An Australian radio astronomer who helped develop wi-fi technology has won the Prime Minister’s prestigious Science Prize. Wi-fi technology has become an essential part of everyday life. It is found in personal computers, video games, mobile phones and much more. … Scientist John O’Sullivan, with a team of ...
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• Australia begins plug-in hybrid vehicle trials

  
  Green cars: latest news — Authority: 543
  Add Australia to the list of countries keen to be at the forefront of plug-in hybrid technology. The country’s CSIRO and Victorian energy distributor SP AusNet have begun a three-month road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles with staff from SP AusNet to use the vehicles for their daily drive to work and for ...
  1 week ago

• Plugging into an electric vehicle revolution

  
  Science nature & education - science-nature.marc8.com — Authority: 154
  (CSIRO Australia) A road trial of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles, which could one day end up in every Australian driveway, is underway.
  2 weeks ago

• Worlds first blue roses to go on sale

  
  Gizmag Emerging Technology Magazine — Authority: 708
  They may not be exactly blue in color, but the long-awaited commercial release of the blue rose is set to take place in Japan next week (November 3). Thought to be impossible to create because they lack the blue pigment delphinidin, Australia-based Florigene and its Japanese parent company Suntory Holdings (known more ...
  2 weeks ago

• Dr Megan Clark

  
  Collectors — Authority: 810
  Dr Megan Clark, the Chief Executive of Australias Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation.
  2 weeks ago

• GovHack: Mashup Australian Government Data on 30 October

  
  Net Traveller — Authority: 435
  GovHack is a free, intensive event at the ANU in Canberra on 30 to 31 October. This is sponsored by the Government 2.0 Taskforce and supported by CSIRO. Government agencies, locals, state, federal and international, might like to come forward with APIs and datasets to be used by the participants. Offer datasets and ...
  2 weeks ago

• CSIRO research income revives founders’ charter

  
  newcastleonhunter.com — Authority: 148
  WIRELESS SUCCESS TO REJUVENATE ENDOWMENT FUND FOR AUSTRALIAN SCIENCE A scientific breakthrough which benefits many millions of people around the world will help fund future science in Australia. CSIRO will invest $150 million from the proceeds from its Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) technology licensing program in ...
  3 weeks ago

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