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NICTA (previously known as National ICT Australia Ltd) is Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Research Centre of Excellence. The term "Centre of Excellence" is common marketing terminology used by some Australian government organisations for titles of science research groups.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 title=Centres of Research Excellence (CRE) )〕 NICTA's role is to pursue potentially economically significant ICT related research for the Australian economy. Currently NICTA is structured around groups focused primarily on pure research and the implementation of those ideas within business teams. == History == In 2002, NICTA won a competitive selection process to be established as Australia's national centre of excellence in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research, under an Australian Government policy initiative to promote science and innovation called Backing Australia's Ability.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 DCITA page on ''ICT Centre of Excellence—National ICT Australia (NICTA)'' )〕 The creation of the centre was intended to address a previously identified weakness in long-term strategic ICT research in Australia.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 ZDNet Australia news article ''NICTA: Fighting Australia's brain drain'' )〕 NICTA was officially opened on 27 February 2003.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Text of speech by Senator the Hon Richard Alston, the Minister for Communications, IT and the Arts )〕 The founding members of NICTA were the University of New South Wales, Australian National University, the NSW Government, and the ACT Government. NICTA later acquired other university and government partners. In January 2003, The University of Sydney became a partner. In July 2004, the Victorian Government and The University of Melbourne became partners. In January 2005, the Queensland Government, the University of Queensland, Griffith University, and the Queensland University of Technology became partners.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 Queensland Ministerial Media Statement ''High Tech Lab To Research E-Security And Counter-Terrorism'' )〕 The University of Melbourne and the Victorian Government became members in May 2011.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 NICTA Media Statement "University of Melbourne and Victorian Government Become NICTA Members" )〕 Since foundation NICTA has created more than six new companies, collaborated on joint projects with a range of ICT industries, developed a substantial technology and intellectual property portfolio and continues to supply new expertise to the ICT industry through a NICTA-supported PhD program. Australian Federal Government funding of NICTA is due to expire in June 2016 and is there a concerted effort in securing a merger with CSIRO. Ostensibly this merger would be with the CSIRO Digital Productivity Flagship and there is the potential for up to 200 redundancies due to funding cuts to both organizations. Duane Zitzner (who replaced Hugh F. Durrant-Whyte as CEO in December 2014 after Durrant-Whyte resigned suddenly due to a disagreement with the NICTA Board 〔 〕) left NICTA at the end of May 2015 in the hope that the merger with CSIRO would be completed by the end of June 2015. As of August 2015 the merger had not been finalized〔http://www.smh.com.au/it-pro/government-it/200-staff-await-delayed-decision-on-nicta-and-csiro-merger-20150804-girbkx.html〕 and Professor Robert (Bob) Williamson (who also heads NICTA's Machine Learning Research Group) is acting and terminal CEO. NICTA formally merged with CSIRO to form a new entity called Data61 on 28 August 2015. Mr Adrian Turner was appointed to head the merged unit. He reports to the CEO of CSIRO and has positional equivalence of a CSIRO Flagship Director. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「NICTA」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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