University of Technology Sydney

11 nonprofits receive Kyndryl Foundation grants to advance cybersecurity skills and resilience

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Tuesday, March 19, 2024
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NEW YORK, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), announced that 11 nonprofits from seven countries have been chosen to receive its first year's grants.

Key Points: 
  • NEW YORK, March 19, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Kyndryl Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Kyndryl (NYSE: KD), announced that 11 nonprofits from seven countries have been chosen to receive its first year's grants.
  • The grantees chosen to receive the inaugural Kyndryl Foundation Grants are organizations that address the shortage of trained cybersecurity professionals by providing skills and placement programs for underrepresented learners and job seekers.
  • Launched in September 2023, Kyndryl Foundation is a private, nonprofit foundation established by Kyndryl, the world's largest IT infrastructure services provider.
  • "Kyndryl Foundation aims to create a more equitable world by enabling access to technology and building skillsets for communities and organizations.

Vivid Sydney 2024 Program Unveiled

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Monday, March 11, 2024
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SYDNEY, AU, Mar 11, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - Vivid Sydney, the Southern Hemisphere's largest multi-artform festival, today unveiled its captivating program for 2024.

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  • SYDNEY, AU, Mar 11, 2024 - (ACN Newswire) - Vivid Sydney, the Southern Hemisphere's largest multi-artform festival, today unveiled its captivating program for 2024.
  • Australia's largest event will transform Sydney with mesmerising light installations and 3D projections from Circular Quay to The Goods Line; genre-spanning music performances and creative showcases; a formidable Vivid Ideas program featuring experiences that will open minds; and a mouth-watering Vivid Food program.
  • Staged across Sydney, Vivid Sydney festival locations and venues include Circular Quay, the Sydney Opera House, The Rocks, State Library of New South Wales, Walsh Bay, Walsh Bay Arts Precinct, Barangaroo, Darling Harbour, University of Technology Sydney, The Goods Line, Royal Botanic Garden Sydney, Carriageworks, and more.
  • Vivid Sydney 2024 will engage audiences across four pillars: Vivid Light, Vivid Music, Vivid Ideas and Vivid Food.

SPIE, the International Society for Optics and Photonics, Announces Its 2024 Fellows

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Wednesday, January 3, 2024
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This year, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics , welcomes 47 Members as new Fellows of the Society.

Key Points: 
  • This year, SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics , welcomes 47 Members as new Fellows of the Society.
  • View the full release here: https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20240103373726/en/
    SPIE, the international society for optics and photonics, welcomes 47 new Fellows in 2024.
  • “SPIE Fellows are honored for their technical achievements and contributions to the Society,” notes Chair of the SPIE Fellows Committee and Technical University of Denmark Professor Peter E. Andersen.
  • The complete list of the 2024 SPIE Fellows is available online , along with a list of all SPIE Fellows , nomination criteria , and the SPIE Fellows nomination form .

Zapata AI Earns Second DARPA Award for Quantum Benchmarking

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Tuesday, November 28, 2023
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Zapata Computing, Inc. (“Zapata AI” or the “Company”), the Industrial Generative AI software company developing solutions and applications to solve enterprises’ hardest problems, today announced that the company, along with several academic and technology partners, has been selected as an awardee for the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking program.

Key Points: 
  • Zapata Computing, Inc. (“Zapata AI” or the “Company”), the Industrial Generative AI software company developing solutions and applications to solve enterprises’ hardest problems, today announced that the company, along with several academic and technology partners, has been selected as an awardee for the second phase of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Quantum Benchmarking program.
  • The multi-year, multi-million-dollar award will help the quantum computing community identify the resources required to deliver quantum applications with high utility for industrial problems.
  • The Phase II award builds on the Phase I award granted to the same group of collaborators in 2022.
  • “This latest DARPA award will help us to better quantify the impact of our quantum hardware across industries and business practices, and assess and improve the timeline to practical commercial advantage.” In addition to the efforts with DARPA, Zapata AI and IonQ also recently announced a new strategic alliance to benchmark Industrial Generative AI techniques on quantum hardware.

UTS and ServiceRocket Announce Three Year Industry Partnership

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Tuesday, December 5, 2023
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PALO ALTO, Calif. and SYDNEY, Dec. 5, 2023 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- ServiceRocket will be the lead industry partner for the new TD School Elective subject 'Technologies reimagined in a complex world'.

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  • The partnership continues a long-established relationship between UTS and ServiceRocket.
  • Founder and CEO Rob Castaneda is a graduate of UTS and a member of the UTS North America Advisory Board.
  • ServiceRocket regularly supports mentoring and scholarship programs for UTS students and UTS Startups, and Rob has occasionally taught alongside his mentors within the Faculty of Engineering and IT.
  • Rob Castaneda, CEO and Founder of ServiceRocket, said: "This is an incredible opportunity for ServiceRocket.

Elon Musk is an 'engineer' but Bill Gates is a 'leader' – new research shows founder personality can dictate startup success

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Tuesday, October 17, 2023
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But these traits aren’t just interesting side notes to these founders’ stories: confidence and calmness, along with other qualities such as a love of adventure, can have a big impact on startup success.

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  • But these traits aren’t just interesting side notes to these founders’ stories: confidence and calmness, along with other qualities such as a love of adventure, can have a big impact on startup success.
  • And common investor wisdom attributes this to either supply side (novel products) or demand side (market interest or “hot sectors”) factors.
  • While our new research shows all these elements are important, it reveals that the personalities of founders are actually the most influential factor in startup success.

AI uncovers the x-factor: founder personality

    • Using AI algorithms, we applied the “five-factor” model – a psychology theory that divides personality into five main groups – to analyse startup founders worldwide.
    • After comparing data on thousands of successful founders to information about employees, we discovered that entrepreneurs exhibit very different combinations of personality traits to everyone else.
    • Based on our findings, we have identified six distinct founder personality types: leader, accomplisher, operator, developer, fighter and engineer.
    • Each type has its own combination of subtle personality traits, for example, operators value orderliness and fighters are emotionally sensitive.
    • Founder personality traits Many of these personality types are thriving in the real-life startup world.

The power of diversity

    • Canva’s three co-founders are a great example of this.
    • And these findings are likely to hold in other settings too: team performance is shaped by the right combination of different personalities.

Aussie startup Refilled launched to save 100m single-use plastic bottles sold from vending machines

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
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SYDNEY, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Refilled is a new Sydney-based climate tech start-up that launched this week with two Australian customers — The University of Technology Sydney and The University of Sydney Union (USU). Refilled is on a mission to eliminate the colossal single-use plastic bottle waste caused by the $44bn vending industry, by replacing as many of these machines as possible with their new BYO-Bottle system. The company hopes to capitalise on the dominant trend of reusable bottles, a market now worth $14bn, by giving people more flavour variety and nutritional options than just plain water on tap. Its 'Refillers' are a cross between a fridge and giant SodaStream. They offer chilled still and sparkling drinks in a range of flavours with the ability to add optional boosters such as caffeine, vitamins, and exercise-focused nootropics.

Key Points: 
  • Refilled is on a mission to eliminate the colossal single-use plastic bottle waste caused by the $44bn vending industry, by replacing as many of these machines as possible with their new BYO-Bottle system.
  • More than 891 billion single-use plastic bottles are produced worldwide every year and less than 20% are ever recycled, which makes vending machines a major source of plastic pollution.
  • Refilled is on track to build and install 100 Refillers by 2024, which would eliminate upwards of 1 million single-use plastic bottles from ending up in our environment or landfills every year.
  • If we can replace even a fraction of drink vending machines, which are an outrageous source of plastic waste, we will stop millions of plastic bottles going to landfills."

Aussie startup Refilled launched to save 100m single-use plastic bottles sold from vending machines

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Thursday, September 14, 2023
Refill (scheme), University of Sydney Union, University, Capital, Drink, Student, UTS, Drinking water, BYO, University of Technology Sydney, Caffeine, USU, Vitamin, QR, Water, Environment, Orientation, Bottled water

SYDNEY, Sept. 14, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- Refilled is a new Sydney-based climate tech start-up that launched this week with two Australian customers — The University of Technology Sydney and The University of Sydney Union (USU). Refilled is on a mission to eliminate the colossal single-use plastic bottle waste caused by the $44bn vending industry, by replacing as many of these machines as possible with their new BYO-Bottle system. The company hopes to capitalise on the dominant trend of reusable bottles, a market now worth $14bn, by giving people more flavour variety and nutritional options than just plain water on tap. Its 'Refillers' are a cross between a fridge and giant SodaStream. They offer chilled still and sparkling drinks in a range of flavours with the ability to add optional boosters such as caffeine, vitamins, and exercise-focused nootropics.

Key Points: 
  • Refilled is on a mission to eliminate the colossal single-use plastic bottle waste caused by the $44bn vending industry, by replacing as many of these machines as possible with their new BYO-Bottle system.
  • More than 891 billion single-use plastic bottles are produced worldwide every year and less than 20% are ever recycled, which makes vending machines a major source of plastic pollution.
  • Refilled is on track to build and install 100 Refillers by 2024, which would eliminate upwards of 1 million single-use plastic bottles from ending up in our environment or landfills every year.
  • If we can replace even a fraction of drink vending machines, which are an outrageous source of plastic waste, we will stop millions of plastic bottles going to landfills."

New carbon budgets for G20 members set a hard limit for a soft landing

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Tuesday, September 5, 2023
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UTS researchers have devised current decarbonisation pathways for each G20 country and the EU27 region, using technically high-resolution energy scenarios.

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  • UTS researchers have devised current decarbonisation pathways for each G20 country and the EU27 region, using technically high-resolution energy scenarios.
  • The scenarios are the first and most detailed of their kind, with each pathway broken down into sub-pathways for 19 industry and service sectors.
  • ISF Research Director Associate Professor Sven Teske says, "This carbon budget is a hard limit for a soft landing.
  • "It first sets out what must happen in G20 economies across all sectors and contains a clear ask to adopt the Carbon Index.

More work to do: how Chinese-Australians perceive coverage of themselves and China in Australian media

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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
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Australian media have significantly increased their reporting on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chinese-Australian communities in the past few years.

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  • Australian media have significantly increased their reporting on the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and Chinese-Australian communities in the past few years.
  • In response, 61% said it was “fair and balanced”, while 10% of respondents said it was “too positive”.
  • In 2022, 42% of Chinese-Australian respondents said Australian media reporting about China was “too negative”.
  • This makes up 2.2% of the entire Australian population, with 227,414 (41%) of these PRC-born individuals reporting Australian citizenship.

Key findings

    • Just over half (51%) believed Australia’s English-language media were either “relatively distrustful” (42%) or “completely distrustful” (9%) of Chinese-Australian communities.
    • These findings point to a widespread feeling among respondents that their community is substantially more likely to be mistrusted, misunderstood and misinterpreted by the Australian English-language media now than in the past.
    • About six in ten (63%) respondents reported feelings of emotional and mental anguish in response to the media’s biased reporting.
    • Given that social cohesion and inclusiveness are crucial to national interest, these findings offer an important insight into Australia’s bid for social cohesion.
    • They may also ask questions of Australia’s media in regard to their role in promoting or damaging that cohesion.