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Transcript: Supercomputing Asia 2024 welcome by Professor Chennupati Jagadish
Supercomputers enhance our everyday lives. Australia needs a coordinated national strategy to secure its high-performance computing and data infrastructure.
Slight increase in Government R&D investment welcome, but still much to be done
While there is a slight increase in Government investment in R&D from 2022-23 to 2023-24, there is much still to be done if we are to see a full turnaround in the decades-long downward trend in R&D investment. Australia’s investment remains well below the OECD average.
Australia’s R&D system is broken and needs more than band-aids
For a community that loves its smartphones and obligingly updates the operating system when we are advised a few times each year, why are we prepared to live with an operating system for our research that hasn’t been updated in 30 years?
Restoring turtle habitats, protecting lizards and helping frogs with the Margaret Middleton Fund
Three early-career researchers have been awarded funding for ecology projects thanks to the Margaret Middleton Fund for endangered Australian native vertebrate animals.
In a time of risk and opportunity, science is critical
The President of the Australian Academy of Science, Professor Chennupati Jagadish, said the Australian Government cannot build a stronger, more resilient nation with a stagnant research and development system that relies on decades-old settings.
