Worldwide AI
Worldwide AI Worldwide AI Australia n NICTA is Australia’s Information and Com - Nick Barnes, Peter Baumgartner, Tiberio Caetano, Hugh munications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excel - Durrant-Whyte, Gerwin Klein, Penelope Sanderson, Abdul lence. It is the largest organization in Australia dedicated to ICT research. While it has close Sattar, Peter Stuckey, Sylvie Thiebaux, Pascal Van Henten - links with local universities, it is in fact an ryck, Toby Walsh independent but not-for-profit company in the business of doing research, commercializing AI@NICTA that research and training Ph.D. students to do that research. Much of the work taking place at NICTA involves various topics in artificial intel - National Information and Communications Technology Aus - ligence. In this article, we survey some of the AI work being undertaken at NICTA. tralia (NICTA) is the largest ICT research center in Australia, hav - ing been established 10 years ago in 2002. It has five laborato - ries in four Australian capital cities: Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, and Brisbane. There are currently around 700 staff and Ph.D. students working at NICTA. In June 2009, the 100th Ph.D. student to study at NICTA graduated. At present and aver - aged over the year, one new Ph.D. student studying at NICTA graduates every 10 days. NICTA has close links with its univer - sity members (Australian National University, the University of New South Wales, and the University of Melbourne) as well as with its partner universities (University of Sydney, Griffith Uni - versity, Queensland University of Technology, University of Queensland, and most recently Monash University). Many of the researchers at NICTA are seconded from these universities.
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