University Of Melbourne
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Moderate leisure surfing at work is OK
News Study may find employees who use 20 percent of time in office surfing for leisure more productive, but firms say this is too much personal surfing time.
Tags: Web browsers, Web 2.0, Employee, Asia, software testing, layoff, Worker, e-mail, University of Melbourne, managing director
Japanese police tune biometrics for foreign suspects
News Faced with the difficulty of identifying non-Japanese criminal suspects, Japanese police researchers trialled their facial-recognition technology on Australians.
Intel gets inside life sciences
News Intel says its processors are behind efforts to find new breakthroughs in life sciences research and healthcare in a number of countries.
Melbourne university taps cloud to water farms
News An agriculture project at the University of Melbourne becomes the forefront of cloud computing and Web applications.
Tags: Cloud computing, Data Management, Business applications, IBM Corp., Financial Crisis, Web Application, Cloud computing, Melbourne, software, University of Melbourne
Aussie university supercomputer looking for cancer cure
News The University of Melbourne and the Victorian government are planning to invest AU$100 million (US$94.2 million) in a supercomputer devoted to the life sciences.
Tags: Supercomputing, Disease, Information And Communication Technology, life science, supercomputer, University of Melbourne, Supercomputing
1Gbps 'superbroadband' helps research
News The University of Melbourne has combined high resolution screens with a "superbroadband" connection to help researchers collaborate across the globe.
Tags: Business broadband, Personal broadband, R&D
