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• University of Melbourne Student "Masters the Mainframe"

  - 2008-08-22

  IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced that University of Melbourne Student Dharvinder Bassi has been named Australia's "Master of the Mainframe" student contest winner after out-performing more than 450 other students across Australia. In addition to becoming Australia's Mainframe student contest winner, Bassi now joins the growing list of approximately...

  Tags: HARDWARE, IBM Corp., Mainframes, Servers, University of Melbourne

• UQ coup takes best brains.

  - 2006-09-19

  Byline: Dorothy Illing Sep 19, 2006 (The Australian - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The University of Queensland's strategy of opening new research institutes that are clustered according to discipline is paying off. Among the facilities is the new Queensland Brain Institute, which has...

  Tags: HARDWARE, Nanotechnology, Semiconductors, Strategy, University of Melbourne

• E-crims slipping through the net.

  - 2006-08-07

  Byline: Nick Miller Aug 07, 2006 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The University of Melbourne's Shane McKenzie has found that electronic crimes are under-reported in Australia. In fact, police procedures and protocols promote the under-reporting of e-crimes, especially given the...

  Tags: Canberra, Databases, FINANCE, HARDWARE, PRODUCTIVITY, SOFTWARE, Storage, University of Melbourne

• One big toxic family

  - 2006-06-01

  What makes the bite of the Komodo dragon a wound that can kill? Most biologists would point to the bacterial infection it causes. According to a new study, however, there may be a better explanation: venom. Fourteen scientists from six nations, led by Bryan G. Fry, a biochemist at the...

  Tags: Components, HARDWARE, monitor, University of Melbourne, wound

• Quit and stay slim.

  - 2006-03-21

  Byline: Michelle Pountney Mar 21, 2006 (Herald Sun - ABIX via COMTEX) -- The University of Melbourne's Associate Professor Gary Anderson, in the pharmacology department, has researched smoking. ...

  Tags: HARDWARE, Mice, professor, University of Melbourne

• Nanobead approach to cancer.

  - 2006-03-15

  Mar 15, 2006 (Australasian Science - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Australian scientists are conducting a study of adjuvants and their effect on the immune systems of sheep. The aim of the study is...

  Tags: HARDWARE, Mice, SECURITY, University of Melbourne

• New run-off hope as forests regrow.

  - 2005-09-28

  Byline: Peter Hunt Sep 28, 2005 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Researchers in Australia have looked at the impact of the 2003 bushfires on water flows. The...

  Tags: HARDWARE, inflow, researcher, river, Storage, University of Melbourne

• The buildings of the University of Melbourne

  - 2003-12-01

  Architecture on Campus--A Guide to the University of Melbourne and its Colleges, by Philip Goad and George Tibbits. Melbourne University Press (PO Box 1167, Carlton 30.53), Melbourne 2003. 134 pp., ill., index. Pbk. Price: $A 24.95. This guide has been published on the 150th anniversary of the foundation of...

  Tags: Components, HARDWARE, Modems, Strategy, University of Melbourne

• Law dean a tip to replace ASIC chief Knott.

  - 2003-08-17

  Aug 17, 2003 (The Age - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Securities and Investments Commission ASIC is seeking a new chairman in August 2003. David Knott has decided to resign his position as chairman after serving only three years of a five year posting....

  Tags: ASICs, chairman, HARDWARE, Semiconductors, University of Melbourne

• Vandals damage Uluru rock paintings.

  - 2003-08-12

  Aug 12, 2003 (Northern Territory News - ABIX via COMTEX) A national park manager says 12 of the 90 rock art sites at Uluru have been damaged by vandals in 2003. Kathy Bannister, acting manager of Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park, said much of the...

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