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RMIT’s Centre for Industrial AI Research and Innovation will work with AI researchers and industry partners to help them develop innovations in digital technology to meet their business needs.

RMIT has announced a new bachelor of business degree which it says is aligned with industry needs and the future of work, specifically designed to give students and working professionals transferable skills and a sound business technology understanding.

RMIT is set to become the first Australian university to implement a dedicated cloud supercomputing facility on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to drive digital innovation in research and education at scale.

Research technology company Glow has appointed Lachlan Donald to an advisory role on its board.

RMIT University and St Vincent’s Hosital Melbourne have collaborated on the development of an artificial intelligence (AI) program for early detection of prostate cancer.

Melbourne-based and Dutch-founded Microsoft cloud specialist Rapid Circle has acquired Brisbane heaquartered workplace security specialist Insync Technology.

Promising its new program "upskills" accounting practitioners with technology, analytics and strategic capabilities to navigate industry evolution, RMIT Online wants you to count by accounting better.

With the iOS App Store well known to outsell the Google Play store, and with iOS regularly getting apps first, with a big recent example being Clubhouse that is still iOS only, Apple has noted that "despite the economic impact of COVID-19, the Australian app economy is driving consistent growth with 156,000 jobs as of January 2021, an increase of 15% since 2019 and up from 113,000 in 2017."

Capgemini has appointed Kaylene O'Brien as its ANZ managing director.

Real-time payments and open banking specialist Split Payments has promoted Chris Jewell to CEO, and hired Matthew Zaina as COO and Graham Hayworth as CFO.

Australia’s peak body for science and technology, Science & Technolgy Australia (STA), fears the permanent loss of talent from the country’s research system and has called on the Federal Government to staunch the "hemorrhaging" of talent in the wake of thousands more job cuts just announced by universitities.

Network and application performance vendor Riverbed has promoted John Milionis to the role of head of channel for the APJ region.

The national broadband network faces three major challenges as it looks ahead to the era after its official rollout was completed, network expert Dr Mark Gregory says, adding that these are reducing the digital divide, upgrading to full-fibre in fixed access areas and contributing to provide universal access.

The Federal Government needs to draft a statement of expectation as to what it expects to happen to the national broadband network next, after the network rollout is officially over at the end of the month, veteran telecommunications analyst Paul Budde says, adding that otherwise Australia will continue to languish in the broadband wilderness.

Analytics provider SAS is now actively promoting its online ‘Certified Young Professionals’ program in Australia and New Zealand, coinciding with what is says is recognition that a lot of young people leaving tertiary education will be “challenged for employment opportunities” while COVID-19 is around.

RMIT University will offer two courses in 5G technology in association with IBM, the university says, adding that both would be fully credentialled by the university. The university did not specify when the courses would be offered.

Global data and analytics provider Servian has been selected by RMIT University to develop and deliver what is claimed as the first in-classroom university DevOps course in Australia.

Concerns over the growing digital skills gap in Australia’s workforce have been revealed in a new study that found that 88% of employers find it hard to get employees with the skills they need.

RMIT Online and Telstra have joined force to launch a Software Defined Networking program and course designed to give students the fundamentals in networking and to obtain skills in areas such as IP networking, SDN, virtualisation with NFV, cloud implementation, orchestration, network service modelling, and automation.

A new online short course from the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) aims to provide people in technology and management roles understand the benefits and processes of integrating DevOps within their business.