Professor Steve Simpson will be the guest speaker at the Science & Research Breakfast Seminar on Wednesday 24 July 2013.
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The NSW Government has committed $13 million in funding to bolster the state's research and development capacity.
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Three New South Wales schoolboys have broken Australia's medal drought at the highly-competitive Asian Physics Olympiad in Indonesia.
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Australia's National Atlas of Groundwater Dependent Ecosystems (GDEs) has won the 2013 Geospatial World Application Excellence Award for Environment Protection and Monitoring.
As part of the popular breakfast seminar series; Professor Hugh Durrant-Whyte spoke about 'Big Data' -- focussing on the major advancements taking place in data fusion and analytics; which will fundamentally change the way we understand and manage our world.