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ISSUE 12 December 2007 www.nicta.com.au

NICTA preparing for the future

NICTA is committed to being a world-class ICT You can read more about the ISAG and IBAG research institute. To ensure we reach this high meeting in an article in this newsletter. standing our executive team consults regularly Also during the ISAG/IBAG meeting, two new with our Board of Directors and advisory groups. initiatives were explained to our advisory group The role of these groups is to ensure NICTA’s members. strategic research and commercial initiatives The steering committee also includes senior are constructively scrutinised by internationally The first is a new Project that builds on NICTA’s representatives of major Australian and respected figures. previous work with the Australian Institute of multinational corporations including ResMed, Sport (a program of the Australian Sports The International Science Advisory Group (ISAG) Cochlear, Microsoft, Canon Information Systems Commission). and International Business Advisory Group (IBAG) Research (CISRA), iTech Corporation provide external advice to the NICTA board. Their The Project, titled “Body Area Networks of and Invetech. charter is to help generate NICTA’s long-term Embedded Systems for Humans” or BANESH, A launch of the cluster, held on December 11 strategic vision in research and examines the use of microprocessors and at the NSW Premier’s Reception Room, was commercialisation. miniature transmitters to interpret attended by around 120 people. An Australia- information from small, smart devices used These groups include many high-profile national wide industry survey, which will help Australian for biometric monitoring. and international members of the academic, businesses to better understand its capability in research and business communities. At present, elite athletes are monitored by Embedded Systems and related areas is coaches under special laboratory conditions to underway. In August, the ISAG and IBAG members met in ensure safety and peak competitive output. The Melbourne for the fifth year running. We are Future project ideas under consideration by the problem with this is that coaches are unable to delighted to report that at this annual meeting cluster include: technology road mapping for interpret the data collected in real-time so as to of NICTA’s advisory groups, the members said Australia, collaborative industry projects, and make instant adjustments to training regiments. NICTA is making great progress. promotion of embedded systems skills in The aim of the BANESH Project is to collect data secondary schools. Since the members of the ISAG and IBAG last from small inexpensive sensors and transform met with NICTA 12 months ago, we have spun To learn more about the cluster, please email the data into useful information in real time. out three companies, improved our strategic Peter Edmonds at [email protected]. approach across our research and business Through the use of machine learning techniques This issue of NICTA News also reports on two areas and strengthened our education portfolio. – such as smart processing algorithms to exciting new technology licenses signed with segment data – NICTA is working now with the NICTA’s people are outstanding. We have 419 NICTA. The first, for technology developed in AIS to identify patterns in data already collected staff and 297 NICTA-enhanced PhD students. We NICTA’s Managing and Monitoring the Internet from athletes. are getting some truly excellent research results (MAMI) Project, is with Optium, a leading supplier and we have a strong commercialisation pipeline The Project will utilise NICTA’s expertise in a of high-performance optical subsystems. The supported by a growing entrepreneurial culture. number of areas and will use a critical mass second, a software license for intellectual The number of collaborations with industry, both of researchers. The BANESH Project will also property created in NICTA’s Smart Cars Project. domestic and internationally, is growing. provide excellent opportunities for NICTA to It is with road company collaborate with industry to address issues of Pavement Management Services. The three-day ISAG/IBAG event included national and international concern. presentations by the NICTA executive team on I hope you enjoy this edition of NICTA News! All NICTA’s research structure, commercialisation I also want to bring to your attention a new of us at NICTA wish you a happy and safe time processes, an update on the progress of our industry cluster that NICTA is chairing. The over the Christmas and New Year festive period. spin-out companies and education initiatives. Embedded Systems Australia (ESA) cluster is chaired by NICTA’s CTO, Embedded Systems, In delivering a feedback session to NICTA, Dr Chris Nicol. Regards, ISAG member, MIT Professor Rodney Brooks said NICTA was very clearly on a track to Embedded Systems Australia is a joint initiative success and the sort of advice the advisory of NICTA, the Australian Electronics and Electrical groups were offering this year had moved into Manufacturers Association (AEEMA), The Warren the “tweak phase”. Centre for Advanced Engineering (within the ), and the NSW Government David Skellern Among other comments, he said the advisory through the Department of State and Regional Chief Executive Officer groups felt NICTA’s research structure and Development (DSRD). business development process was now appropriate and clear.

The imagination driving Australia’s ICT future. NICTA realising vision for ’s ICT knowledge precinct with new Laboratory

The Canberra operations of NICTA has moved A series of 10 paintings gifted by local artist CONTENTS into its new premise, which is set to become Nicola Sasanelli AM will adorn the walls of the hub of innovative ICT activity in the NICTA’s new Canberra Research Laboratory. 1 Letter from the CEO - Australian Capital Territory. Adj Prof Sasanelli is the Scientific and Technology Attaché at the Italian Embassy NICTA preparing for the future Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister in Canberra. Mr Jon Stanhope officially opened NICTA’s new 2 Canberra Building Opening facilities on December 12, which brings The series of paintings are a tribute to together NICTA’s three offices in Canberra. scientists who have changed the world, such as Pythagoras, Leonardo Da Vinci, Charles 3 NICTA’s Advisory Groups meet Around 200 people attended the festive- Darwin and Albert Einstein. in Melbourne themed opening in the new Canberra Lab. “I am very happy to see my paintings hanging The NICTA Laboratory is located within the in NICTA’s new Laboratory,” Adj Prof Sasanelli 4 NICTA’s Commercialisation team new 6800 m2, A-grade, 4-star said. “This project was born from a personal environmentally-friendly building on London passion for abstract art I have nurtured over 5 NICTA signs technology Circuit, adjacent to The Australian National the years and from the desire to stimulate transfer deals University (ANU). more aggressive marketing policies for The $60 million commercial development by scientific and technological research.” 6 NICTA’s research into Gigabit developer Leighton Properties will be used Laboratory Director for the Canberra Research Wireless as a base to help grow and develop ICT Laboratory Dr David Everitt is thrilled the research in Australia and the Australian paintings will be housed at NICTA’s new Capital Territory. 7 NICTA Lab News Canberra facility. “Nicola’s paintings are “NICTA’s new laboratory in West Civic is an vibrant and depict a real passion for the 8 Stop Press & Events important piece of the West City knowledge revolutionary work undertaken by these precinct that is forming around ANU scientists, I am sure they will be a real Exchange,” NICTA Chairman Mr Neville inspiration to the outstanding researchers Stevens AO said. working at this Lab,” Dr Everitt said. “With the completion of the new research NICTA’s imaginative and ground-breaking facility on London Circuit, the Canberra and research is placing Australia at the forefront ACT community have an iconic global of global ICT research and its researchers landmark which will reflect the true innovation are developing technologies that meet the of Canberra’s world-class ICT research,” current and future needs of society. At the he said. opening today, NICTA demonstrated its work to VIPs in areas such as Intelligent Transport “NICTA’s researchers are already producing Systems, medical imaging and statistical new knowledge and techniques and are machine learning. putting their imagination to work with local small and medium businesses on significant The ACT government, in addition to The technology break-throughs which will benefit Australian National University, the NSW the Canberra community and the nation.” Government and the University of NSW, is a foundation member of NICTA and has played an integral part in building NICTA into a world- class ICT research institute.

Australian Capital Territory Chief Minister Jon Stanhope and NICTA Chair Neville Stevens officially opening NICTA’s new Canberra Lab

Page 2 “The ISAG and IBAG members met in Melbourne for the fifth year running.” L to R: Prof Jeffrey Ullman, Prof Dieter Rombach, Mr Duane Zitzner, Ms Heather Killen, Prof Craig Mudge and Prof Rodney Brooks

NICTA’s Advisory Groups meet in Melbourne

NICTA’s two advisory groups met in The advisory groups had a number of 2007 INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS Melbourne between 29-31 August to primary recommendations for the year ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERSHIP discuss the organisation’s progress during ahead for NICTA. the year, the members believe NICTA is Mr Duane Zitzner, HP, Executive Vice “We think Australia, the government and making great progress. President, Retired the country at large under-appreciate the The three-day event included importance of ICT,” Professor Brooks said. Mr Narayana Murthy, Infosys, Chief presentations by the NICTA executive team “We believe Australia needs both NICTA and Mentor Officer and co-founder of on NICTA’s research structure, the CSIRO ICT Centre, but NICTA needs to Infosys commercialisation process, an update be more visible, part of becoming more on the progress of our spin-out companies Prof. Craig Mudge, Pacific Challenge visible is having NICTA’s fingers reach and education initiatives. across more boundaries.” Mr Bob Bishop, Silicon Graphics, A number of researchers also presented With regards to NICTA’s commercialisation Vice Chairman & former CEO updates on key NICTA projects including process, Professor Brooks said the BANESH, Supercom and Gigabit Wireless. Ms Heather Killen, Hemisphere Australian landscape was unique and the Capital, Founder & Managing Under the influence of the International pipeline development process in this Business Advisory Group (IBAG) and country needed to be different to that in Partner International Science Advisory Group other parts of the world. (ISAG), NICTA’s strategic research and 2007 INTERNATIONAL SCIENCE “Australia in unique and has its own model, commercial initiatives are constructively ADVISORY GROUP MEMBERSHIP but continuing to benchmark internationally scrutinised by leading international figures. is important.” Dr Jean Vuillemin, Ecole Normale On the last day of the meeting, ISAG Professor Brooks added that the Superieure & former Scientific member, MIT Director Professor Rodney development of several IT platforms within Director, INRIA Brooks, moderated a feedback session NICTA was a good way for NICTA to get its which was relayed via video-conference to Prof. Dieter Rombach, Fraunhofer brand name out in the marketplace. “It is all NICTA labs. also an alternative way to capitalise on Institute for Experimental Software “The sort of advice we are giving is in the NICTA’s intellectual property.” Engineering, Executive Director; and ‘tweak’ phase,” Professor Brooks said. “It Director of ICT Cluster is really about tuning where you are going.” Prof. Jeffrey Ullman, Stanford, He said the advisory groups felt NICTA’s Professor Emeritus of Computer research structure and business Science development process were now clear. Prof. Rodney Brooks, MIT, Director, “We are impressed that Melbourne is now on line and there is thrust in the life Computer Science and Artificial sciences area.” Intelligence Laboratory Professor Brooks said NICTA’s Bionic Eye Dr Stuart Feldman, Google Labs project was “inspiring and important”. He Ease Coast, Vice President said the projects up and running in the life Engineering sciences area would provide opportunities for “tremendous” long-term pay off. In July 2007 Sir John Taylor FRS, FREng, Roke Institute, Chairperson was newly appointed to the ISAG.

Page 3 The RoboFiddler team in Berlin

“NICTA has a commercialisation pipeline, three companies have already spun-out.”

NICTA’s Commercialisation Team

The commercialisation of intellectual NICTA’s strategies for successful property (IP) developed through world- commercialisation include: NICTA’s new Director of class research is fundamental to NICTA’s • Ensuring NICTA has a clear, fast and Commercialisation, Rob Fitzpatrick, has mission of facilitating technology transfer flexible IP Framework as a foundation an extensive background in business and and creating channels to market for for commercialisation and industry technology in the ICT sector globally, NICTA research. partnerships including management, consulting, NICTA stimulates technology transfer through • Identifying and funding the development start-ups and business development for a range of approaches including start-up of proof-of-concept and working models large corporates. companies, technology licensing, to demonstrate market application collaborations with the Australian Mr Fitzpatrick is well regarded within • Assisting with the creation of and access information and communications technology industry, specifically for his roles as part to capital for spin-out companies and (ICT) sector and working with industries of the team that set up and ran online business partnerships outside the ICT sector. grocer ShopFast and as a consultant • Developing domain applications in NICTA has a commercialisation pipeline. for over seven years with worldwide partnerships with industries that are major Already three companies – Open Kernel management consultancy McKinsey users of ICT. Labs, Audinate and 7-ip - have spun out of & Company, consulting to clients in NICTA and a number of Projects are moving NICTA has assembled a team of experienced Australia, Europe, the US and Asia. through the pipeline. business development professionals to Since 2003, he has maintained an ensure researchers achieve commercial NICTA has a rigorous commercialisation active portfolio of information and impact with their research. process, the stages in the pipeline include: communications technology businesses Rob Fitzpatrick started as NICTA’s Director • Market Engagement: This stage including HeardIT and a number of other of Commercialisation in November and will encompasses general industry technology start-ups. be responsible for NICTA’s Business development activities, market Development and Industry Liaison activities “NICTA gives me the opportunity to work intelligence, industry clusters, IP [see breakout box]. protection and collaborations with some of Australia’s and the world’s His team has a strong commercial focus. leading ICT researchers,” Mr Fitzpatrick • Business Development: This is the Most members have previous startup said. “Use-inspired research in the ICT formal stage of commercialisation. It experience and several have worked for space will differentiate our future and includes a four-step process to nurture private and institutional investors. They have provide an opportunity to strengthen the commercial success of our research considerable experience in early stage Projects Australia’s position on the global map.” business strategy, new product • Spin-outs and Licensing: NICTA’s main development, high technology sales and Mr Fitzpatrick will direct NICTA’s commercialisation vehicles are spin-outs marketing and venture capital raising. commercialisation activities, developing and licensing the business skills of NICTA’s research • Business Areas: NICTA’s Business Areas project teams and where appropriate, are the market sectors where we seek the linking those projects with industry majority of our use-inspiration. partners. This will help to further target and refine NICTA’s research activities and strengthen NICTA’s pipeline of commercial opportunities.

Page 4 The NICTA-developed techniques will be used for highway and pavement management by Pavement Management Services.

NICTA signs deal with Pavement NICTA inks deal for ground-breaking NICTA Management Services technology for telcos NICTA has signed its first technology NICTA has signed a commercial license transfer deal, a software licensing deal agreement with Optium, a leading supplier signs with Sydney road infrastructure company of high-performance optical subsystems, Pavement Management Services. covering groundbreaking optical signal-to- technology The agreement will enable Pavement noise ratio (OSNR) monitoring technology. Management Services to rapidly This is the first technology licence commercialise research from NICTA’s agreement for the Managing and transfer Smart Cars Project, which is based at Monitoring the Internet (MAMI) project, NICTA’s Canberra Research Laboratory. which is based at NICTA’s deals The Smart Cars Project uses computer Research Laboratory. technology, particularly image analysis, NICTA’s new generation OSNR monitoring to enable a safer driving experience. The technology is compatible with optical goal of the project is not to create an switches, including reconfigurable optical autonomous vehicle, but to provide input add/drop multiplexers (ROADMs), and can to the driver about road conditions, distinguish and measure the impairment obstacles and potential hazards, letting caused by optical amplifier noise, the driver retain control of the vehicle improving the ability to manage while benefiting from the input from the telecommunications networks. computer system. “The licensed technology is the product The particular NICTA-developed of a number of years of work by a team in techniques to be used by Pavement NICTA’s Victoria Lab and represents the Management Services can automatically first of a number of exciting new related detect, recognise and geographically pin- technologies due to be released by NICTA point road signs using video-footage shot over the next twelve months,” NICTA Chief from surveying vehicles. Executive Officer, Dr David Skellern said “We are very excited to be working with “This technology operates in-band Pavement Management Services and providing live information on actual anticipate the relationship will help us to performance and is faster and less evolve our research and expand the complex than similar devices,” NICTA commercial opportunities into Principal Researcher and MAMI Project neighbouring areas,” NICTA Researcher Leader Mr Trevor Anderson said. and Smart Cars project leader Dr Lars Petersson said. “These advantages enable network-wide awareness and significantly improves an operator’s ability to manage high-speed optical networks,” Mr Anderson said. “The information provided by the monitor will provide additional confidence in the robustness of new high-speed networks supporting highly efficient network designs.” “This is the beginning of what we expect to be a long-term relationship with Optium as a partner in the development and commercialisation of optical networking technologies coming out of NICTA,” NICTA Entrepreneur-in-Residence, Mr David Wright said. Page 5 NICTA’s research into Gigabit Wireless

NICTA’s Gigabit Wireless Project has include integrated antenna, transmit and chip’s development. “They are a world developed technology that will enable receive switches, power amplifier, radio, class group and there is great synergy the future of data and media baseband and medium access controller. between the two groups.” management and distribution around the The end result of the technology could, for Sixteen researchers were recently made office and the home. example, mean you could join a high redundant from LSI Australia (formerly In the not-too-distant future, existing indoor definition DVD player and a high definition Agere Systems) following the closure of wireless networks will not be able to supply TV, NICTA Gigabit Wireless Project Leader their North Ryde research facility. the required bandwidth to support content- Professor Stan Skafidas said. The announced rich applications. To address this emerging “Another application is there may not be in October an extra $4.8 million over problem, NICTA is developing wireless any video and DVD stores in the future, two years to NICTA to enable the technology that will allow wireless there will be kiosks that you walk up to and retention of the team of world-class communication links of up to 5 Gb/s - when you are near it you could download a researchers in Australia. many orders of magnitude faster than movie in a few seconds and watch it on existing wireless technology, and available “NICTA identified an opportunity to merge your video iPod or put the device near your at a much lower cost. the LSI Australia-Agere team with an plasma TV and beam the signal. existing research effort to create state-of- The radio frequency (RF) and mixed signal “The technology will mean devices will the-art personal broadband wireless chips components of this technology are connect to each other wirelessly, leading which will enable people to transfer large developed at the Victoria Research to an improved user experience.” multi-media files, such as entire movies, Laboratory in Melbourne and the Baseband up to a thousand times faster than and Medium Access Control components Prof Skafidas said the difference between currently possible,” NICTA Chief Technology are developed at NICTA’s Australian NICTA and other competitors is NICTA is Officer of Embedded Systems Dr Chris Technology Park Lab in Sydney. developing an integrated chip on a low cost Nicol said. electronic process, CMOS. This achievement is made possible by the NICTA’s Gigabit Wireless research Project availability of unlicensed spectrum in the The research team are world leaders in is collaborating with IBM T.J. Watson, 57 to 64 GHz band. NICTA’s researchers developing next generation millimetre-wave Princeton University, and Georgia Institute are taking advantage of the availability of systems on bulk CMOS of Technology. The Project has also 7GHz of unlicensed spectrum to develop “We are the first group to have made great received significant industry support from a low-cost, gigabit per second integrated progress in building an integrated radio on Cadence, Synopsys, Agilent, Anritsu, millimetre-wave transceiver on the most CMOS,” Prof Skafidas said. Ansoft and Suss MicroTec. widely used and inexpensive silicon process technology, CMOS. Prof Skafidas said some of the NICTA Written by Professor Stan Skafidas team’s competitors include UC Berkeley, The use of millimetre-wave technology has which have spun out a company called the advantage that it allows further SiBEAM, and research teams in Singapore miniaturisation of components on a single and Europe. chip and it also allows the integration of antennas on the chip. Fabricated devices Prof Skafidas said the acquisition of the LSI team will significantly contribute to the

Page 6 New NICTA researchers and management at the Australian Government funding announcement with Senator Helen Coonan.

NICTA Lab News

Canberra Research Laboratory Neville Roach Laboratory Summer Scholars Showcase was hosted A new project is building critical mass (Kensington) by the Victoria Research Lab. Around 100 at the Canberra Research Laboratory. students attended the event. The event A group of around 20 senior high-school demonstrated opportunities at NICTA Building on previous work with the students from years 10 and 11 pondered Australian Institute of Sport (a program whilst also offering an opportunity for the the question about what will happen in students to interact with staff. This year of the Australian Sports Commission), the future at a special workshop. the Body Area Networks of Embedded students were also exposed to the Students from local schools around Artemis Orchestra Program. Systems for Humans, or BANESH Randwick, Kensington, Mascot and Project, examines the use of micro Maroubra near the NICTA Research Australian Technology Park processors and miniature transmitters Laboratory at Kensington were invited to interpret information from small, to participate. The Australian Government provided extra smart devices used for biometric funding to NICTA to enable the monitoring. NICTA has been running a series of ‘2020 organisation to hire researchers with Vision’ foresighting workshops over the world-class skills in silicon chip design. BANESH utilises NICTA’s expertise in last few months. These have involved The LSI Australia (formerly Agere a number of areas and will use a critical CEOs, CIOs, opinion leaders and industry Systems) researchers were made mass of researchers. analysts as well as NICTA research redundant following the closure of their At present, elite athletes are monitored scientists and PhD students. North Ryde research facility. by coaches under special laboratory NICTA will use the visions from the “Through this team Australia has conditions to ensure safety and peak workshop to guide its future ICT research. developed a core competency in silicon competitive output. The problem is chip design which is leading edge and coaches are unable to interpret the data On Thursday 1 November a very contributed to Australia’s ICT capability,” collected in real-time so as to make unusual masterclass took place at the NICTA’s Education Director Professor instant adjustments to training regimens. Lab when Sydney Youth Orchestra (SYO) Aruna Seneviratne said. The aim of the BANESH Project is to violinist Megan Lee led the award- collect data from small inexpensive winning ‘RoboFiddler’ in a performance. The researchers will be working on sensors and transform the data into The robotic violin player is sponsored wireless-related research within NICTA’s useful information. by NICTA and was created by Embedded Systems Research Theme. University of Adelaide mechatronics This research is developing next Through the use of machine learning engineering students. generation wireless networks. techniques – the use of smart processing algorithms to segment data - Seventeen-year-old Megan Lee led The addition of the researchers to the NICTA is working with the AIS to identify RoboFiddler in playing the two pieces it Gigabit Wireless Project team will patterns in data which are already performed at the ARTEMIS competition. allow NICTA to fast-track research on collected from athletes. “I am interested to see what kind of the technology. A number of new staff also joined the sound RoboFiddler makes. But I think the The researchers will be based at the ATP CRL in previous months. These include emotion and responsiveness of a real-life facilities and will be an important part of Roy Yang, who is a user interface musician mean that the finest NICTA’s efforts in Embedded Systems. programmer and will be working on the performances will always be by flesh and BANESH project. Damian Merrick also blood!” Megan said. Research joined NICTA to work in the BANESH NICTA Senior Research Engineer Dr John Laboratory project, he will be working from the Judge said that the challenges for Professor Hans Burkhardt, a visiting Australian Technology Park Laboratory. RoboFiddler are great: “RoboFiddler have researcher with the Queensland Research Catherine Menon has started as a a long way to go, and participating in a Laboratory from the University of Freiburg research programmer in the Managing masterclass with a real performer is part in Germany, and his team have just won Complexity Theme. She works primarily of the next step to true musicality”. German Federal Government funding of on the L4.verified project. Le Song, a PhD around 33 million euro over the next five student will be working with the Statistical Victoria Research Laboratory years for a Centre of Biological Signalling Machine Learning team. He will be From 6-7 December, NICTA hosted its Studies. Hans is currently working with visiting NICTA until March 2008. Summer Scholars Showcase for NICTA- the SAFE Sensors team, which includes funded undergraduate summer scholars Brian Lovell and his colleagues. from our partner universities. This year’s

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• The IREE Neville Thiele Award is selected for the best paper award Engineers Australia’s most at the Australian Artificial prestigious award. Canberra Intelligence Conference which took Research Laboratory researcher place on December 2-6 on the Gold Dr Mark Reed has Dr Mark Reed has won this year’s Coast. Martin is a PhD candidate at award. The award is named in honor the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität won Engineers of A.N. (Neville) Thiele OAM, an Freiburg in Germany. Jussi is a outstanding Australian Electronics Principal Researcher at NICTA’s Australia’s most Engineer, former President of the Canberra Research Laboratory. IREE and a world-renowned expert • Best Student paper award: Matt on audio engineering standards and prestigious award. Ruan, 7th International Symposium the design of loudspeakers. on Communications and Information • Professor Brian Anderson has been Technologies ISCIT2007, “Turbo honoured by His Majesty the Equalisation using Particle Filtering Emperor of Japan by being awarded, with Grouping”, co-authored by Mark on 3 November, The Order of the Reed and Zhenning Shi. Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Neck • Best Student paper award: Ribbon. The award is for his Roy Timo, Australasian outstanding contribution in bringing Telecommunications Networks and Australia and Japan together in the Applications Conference ATNAC academic sphere, including the 2007, Christchurch, New Zealand, scheme he initiated to invite for the paper “Strong Stochastic Japanese researchers to the ANU Stabiity for Dynamic Source and his ongoing collaboration with Routing”, co-authored by Kim Japanese researchers. Blackmore and John • Martin Wehrle and Jussi Rintanen’s Papandriopoulos. “SAT Planning with a Relaxed Definition of E-Step Plans” has been

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