Displaying items by tag: Graeme Philipson

EVENT INVITE: Launch of the Graeme Philipson History of Computing Library

Renowned technology journalist, author, researcher, analyst, reviewer, roundtable and webinar facilitator, poet, historian and genuinely great man.

The Australian IT world was shocked and saddened to hear of the untimely passing of veteran technology journalist and analyst Graeme Philipson as the result of a freak accident outside of his Sydney home.

Fujitsu has announced the development of an AI based technology that can recognise and analyse complex human movements.

An international team of researchers led by Swinburne University of Technology has demonstrated the world’s fastest and most powerful optical neuromorphic processor for artificial intelligence.

On Tuesday 15 December the Australian Computer Society Congress met to elect three members to vacant positions in the Management Committee.

In this exclusive interview, Oppermann and Grayston talk about their vision for the ACS's future.

Cyber warfare is a growth industry across the Middle East. While the USA’s plans for the sale of 50 advanced fighter jets to the United Arab Emirates has sparked fears of a conventional arms race, the contest for cyber superiority has already begun.

INTERVIEW PROMOTION. Low-code development vendor OutSystems has released a major study of thousands of IT professionals and CIOs about their readiness for change a world beset by the COVID-19 pandemic.

The lockdown in response to the COVID-19 pandemic has been directly responsible for a significant increase in cyber crime in Australia and globally, says security vendor Radware. The increased number of people working from home opened up many opportunities for hackers and criminals.

OPINION: It is now four days since the government released its COVIDSafe tracing app. There has been a lot of debate over the privacy aspects of the app, and a lot of commentary about whether people should or shouldn’t use it.

The Pearcey Foundation has released a discussion paper in response to the launch of the Australian Government’s COVIDSafe app.

Content services vendor Hyland is planning a major push into the Australian government sector, where it believes it is underrepresented. Australian country manager Jamie Atherton, in a wide-ranging interview with iTWire, outlined the company’s new strategy.

The term ‘user experience’ has become commonplace in the technology industry. Often shortened to UX, it has been supplemented by related terms such as customer experience (CX) and employee experience (EX).

ANALYSIS   Last week I interviewed the CEO of US software company FinancialForce. Tod Nielsen has a good story to tell, but let me come to that later.

I came, I saw, I vlogged. Perhaps the motto of the millennial traveller.

US based IT infrastructure monitoring company LogicMonitor is looking to further expansion in Asia-Pacific after a successful first year in Australia.

US networking giant CenturyLink is greatly expanding its operations in Asia-Pacific, which will include a substantially increased presence in Australia.

The market for ruggedised tablets and laptops is growing. Analyst group Technavio predicts an annual growth rate of almost 8% over the next few years, much more than the regular PCs.

NBN Co is planning bandwidth improvements for FttC (fibre to the curb) and HFC (hybrid fibre coax) customers. But premises connected via FttN (fibre to the node) will receive no enhancements, at least during the life of the new NBN 2020-23 Corporate Plan.