Last night SIRCA, NICTA, Macquarie University and the University of Sydney launched a new national research collaboration around applying the latest Big Data and Machine Learning software tools and techniques to some of today’s grand scientific challenges in Ecology, Geology and Physics.

Dr Rob Stokes MP, Member for Pittwater and Parliamentary Secretary for Renewable Energy commended the initiative and commented on how this project may not only be the key to unlocking many great scientific riddles like Sir Richard Southwood former Vice Chancellor of the University of Oxford’s quest for a “periodic table” of ecology but also contribute new tools to advance fundamental understanding of other unrelated areas such as nutrition and medical science.

More details of this project and a full press release can be found here.

The Big Data Knowledge Discovery project was also reported in The Australian newspaper on Thursday 6th June, 2013. You can find a copy of this news article here.

Sirca is delighted to once again be supporting the Australasian Banking & Finance Conference organised by the Institute of Global Finance and the Australian Business School at the University of New South Wales. We will be on site at the conference showing delegates the latest line up of Sirca resources for member and subscribing universities. We will also once again be supporting a research prize, which will be awarded to the best paper which has used Sirca data.

The 24th Australasian Banking & Finance conference, takes place in Sydney between 13th and 16th December. For further details about the conference, see: goo.gl/6MzIM