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The inventor of the World Wide Web, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, has been awarded the 2016 A.M. Turing Award, by the Association for Computing Machinery.

An informatics expert says that humanity has nothing to fear from smart machines but the real threat comes from incompetent machines that can screw up things.

A team of students from the University of Sydney's Faculty of Engineering and Information Technologies and Faculty of Science has won the South Pacific Regional Collegiate Programming Contest.

The Association for Computing Machinery has named Leslie G. Valiant of Harvard University as winner of its 2010 ACM A.M. Turing Award for his fundamental contributions to the development of computational learning theory and to the broader theory of computer science.

Optus has given the ACMA a mixed scorecard on its spectrum management performance, saying that while there has been progress in some areas, the ACMA has been too slow and lacking in transparency on key issues: in particular allocation of spectrum in the 2.5GHz band for future, LTE, mobile services.