Stories about: University of South Australia

Social media could prove a powerful weapon in the fight to lower smoking take-up rates in young people.

The University of South Australia (UniSA) has opened a Sustainable Energy Industry Support Centre aimed at speeding up the development of advanced solar thermal technologies.

The federal government today announced more than $5.9 million in funding for counter-terrorism science and technology research as part of the Office of National Security's, Research Support for Counter-Terrorism (RSCT) program.

Canberra's shortage of IT skills is good news for Adelaide where Centrelink will build its new IT shop and have access to graduates from the city's three universities.

Radio Frequency Identification has the potential to revolutionize logistics, but first it must overcome its reputation as an intrusive technology.

Data quality is critical to the success of any enterprise application. Systems from business intelligence to customer relationship management are destined to fail without high-quality data - the "garbage in, garbage out" theory

South Australia’s fledgling biotechnology industry has received the first of two shots in the arm with the commissioning of Hydra, a $1.7 million system that is Australia’s third-largest supercomputer and the largest of its type.

By the late 1980s, a major IT project under way at the Society of Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFTsc) was beginning to drain significant resources, with the well quickly running dry. The project, according to former SWIFTsc security adviser Erik Guldentops, now a management consultant and executive professor at the Management School of Antwerp University, suffered from "moving goalposts" for requirements, budgets and objectives. Business, IT and audit management began sparring over who should take the blame. Tensions escalated to the point where hostility and friction were close to paralysing the project.