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Best paper award for student's prototype for cleaning ABS census data
Daniel Alarcon, PhD student from the Research School of Computer Science has just been awarded the best paper at the recent Australasian Computer Science Conference (ACSC) for his research which uses logic techniques to clean real-world...
VC outlines a new vision for ANU
Professor Brian Schmidt has shared his vision for ANU in his first public event since taking over as Vice-Chancellor. Professor Schmidt said he wanted ANU to be committed to excellence in both research and education, to honour...
ANU student and alumna awarded Fulbright Scholarships
PhD student Daniel McNamara and law graduate Hannah Ryan have been awarded 2016 Fulbright Postgraduate Scholarships to study in the United States. Mr McNamara, a PhD student at the ANU Research School of Computer Science, will...
Global challenges attract students
Demand for places at The Australian National University (ANU) has increased by almost 16 per cent on the same time last year, with offers made to more than 3,775 new domestic undergraduate students for 2016 so far. ANU attracted...
ANU among world's most international universities
ANU has been named the 25th most international university in the world, according to the latest Times Higher Education...
Computing Students to trial innovations to education and mobile learning
The Research School of Computer Science has won a competitive ANU Teaching Enhancement Grant in the latest round of funding provided to promote innovations to education at The Australian National University. The Grant will seek...
Students explore a future in Technology at the 2016 National Youth Science Forum
The National Youth Science Forum (NYSF) is a 12 day residential program for students entering year 12 who are passionate about all things Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (...
More than 2,150 students offered early places at ANU
More than 2,150 students, including more than 600 ACT school-leavers, have received an early offer to study at The Australian National University (ANU) in 2016. The offers were made through the Universities Admissions Centre's (...
Hassan Hijazi wins 2015 "Rising Star" award in Operations Research
Dr Hassan Hijazi from the Research School of Computer Science has been recently awarded the 2015 "Rising Star" award from the ...
Winning design connecting the community with virtual reality platform
A team of four ANU students known as “The Normans” (Jennyfer Lawrence Taylor, Leana Copeland, Chris Chow, and Kirsty Nitschke) won first place in the OzCHI 2015 Student Design Challenge (OzCHI24...
ANU tops the nation for research excellence
ANU leads the nation in research excellence, boosting its reputation for world-class research in the latest Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) results. The ERA results found 95 per cent of broad-field research and 91 per...
The 25th Anniversary of the Bachelor of Engineering
The 25th anniversary of the Bachelor of Engineering celebrations over the weekend were a huge success, with over 100 alumni attending the events, and each graduating year, 1994 to 2015 represented. For photos from the...
Volunteers wanted for solar energy study
Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are looking for volunteers across the ACT who have solar panels on their roof to take part in a new study. An estimated 50 MW of the total 80 MW capacity of solar power in...
Computing students smoke competition in bush fire data mining competition win
Two ANU computing students have recently taken out the Australian Data Mining 2015 student competition. With a first place prize of $2500.00 the competition was fierce, but the strong computing...
ANU Computing students present new ideas for innovation
The next generation of software developers and entrepreneurs from ANU have presented high technology projects to potential investors and industry partners at the TechLauncher showcase. One of 20 new projects, ...
Engineering student recognised for excellence in business innovation
Samaneh Movassaghi, Engineering PhD candidate has recently been recognized for cutting edge research on wearable networks (wearables). Samaneh is selected as one of the top seven researchers across Australia’s leading research...
Comeback kid wins 2015 ANU 3MT final
The College of Engineering and Computer Science (CECS) has cleaned up at the 2015 ANU Three Minute Thesis (3MT) Competition, after two CECS students took out the crown and People's Choice awards. Final year Biomaterial...
ANU Researchers win best paper at high performance computing conference
Joint efforts between the Research School of Computer Science and the Mathematical Sciences Institute (MSI) at the Australian National University have just been awarded Outstanding Paper at a recent High Performance Computing conference...
ANU to play role in World Wide Web development
The ANU is set to play a significant role in guiding the future of the Web after being chosen as the new host of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Australia Office. The W3C is an international consortium of over 400 member...
