[Asis-l] Microsoft and QUT/FIT Establish E-Research Lab

[Professor Amanda Spink]

Microsoft and QUT/FIT Establish E-Research Lab

Microsoft and QUT/FIT have set up Australia's first e-research lab. A $2.7m e-research lab will be established at Queensland University of Technology (QUT) Faculty of Information Technology to speed up scientific discoveries in Queensland and across the world. The lab, which is the first of its kind in Australia and one of only 11 in the world, aims to give scientists more time for discovery and invention by automating the data processes that are necessary to their research.

The lab is jointly funded by worldwide technology leader Microsoft, QUT Faculty of Information Technology and the Queensland Government and could be the forerunner to an international Microsoft Research Centre being established in Queensland. QUT's world-leading IT and information science researchers had worked with Microsoft for many years and were excited about this opportunity to advance international research.

The lab will be funded over three years by $900,000 from the Queensland Smart State Innovation fund (National and International Research Alliances Program), $900,000 from Microsoft and $900,000 in cash and kind from QUT. Intellectual property will be owned by QUT, enabling it to continue research, and Microsoft will have a licence to commercialise all generated IP.

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Amanda Spink
Professor of Information Technology
Faculty of Information Technology
Queensland University of Technology
Gardens Point Campus
2 George St, GPO Box 2434
Brisbane QLD 4000 Australia
http://www.fit.qut.edu.au
Tel: 61-7-3864-9583 Fax: 61-7-3864-2703
Email: ah.spink at qut.edu.au
Homepage: http://sky.fit.qut.edu.au/~spinkah/