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Young Tall Poppy Award Winner 2008
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Brian Krongold was one of ten winners of the Victorian Young Tall Poppy Science Awards announced recently. Brian is a lecturer and researcher in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering. The award recognises his science promotion activites for school students in his role as Department outreach Coordinator.- More information about Brian's award is available on the Tall Poppy website
- Visit Brian Krongold's Research Profile
Engineering Professor wins ATSE Clunies Ross Award
Professor Iven Mareels, Dean of the Melbourne School of Engineering and Professor of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, is one of five recipients of the ATSE Clunies Ross Award, Australia’s pre-eminent award for scientists and technologists. The ATSE Clunies Ross Awards – presented annually by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering (ATSE) – recognises research excellence and projects which make a significant economic, environmental and social impact. Professor Mareels has been honoured for a revolutionary new approach to reducing water wastage through an IT-based management system for irrigation channels. Read the full media release.
Laureate Professor Rod Tucker appointed to panel to assess National Broadband Network proposals
Professor Rod Tucker (Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering) has been announced as a member of the Panel of Experts appointed by the Federal Government to assess proposals to build the National Broadband Network. Rod is one of six telecommunication industry, academic and corporate experts on the panel. The Minister for Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy, Senator the Hon Stephen Conroy, said that the Government will formally call for proposals to roll-out the new network with a view to having construction underway by the end of 2008.
Full details are available on Senator Conroy’s website at http://www.minister.dbcde.gov.au/media/media_releases/2008/016.
Gigabit wireless chip unveiled at the Melbourne University-based laboratories of NICTA
The world’s first transceiver integrated on a single chip that operates at 60GHz on the CMOS (complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor) process, the most common semiconductor technology, was announced today by NICTA, Australia’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence.
The development will enable the truly wireless office and home of the future. As the integrated transceiver developed by NICTA is extremely small, it can be embedded into devices. The breakthrough will mean the networking of office and home equipment - without wires - will finally become a reality.
Researchers from NICTA’s Gigabit Wireless Project, which is based out of NICTA’s Victoria Research Laboratory, are the first in the world to have developed an integrated transceiver, a complete transmitter and receiver, on a single chip at 60GHz on CMOS.
This technology breakthrough will enable the wireless transfer of audio and video data at up to 5 gigabits per second, ten times the current maximum wireless transfer rate, at one-tenth the cost.
The 27-member team, led by Professor Stan Skafidas, includes 10 PhD students from the University of Melbourne. For more details, visit the NICTA website.