Tagged with School of Information and Communication Technology

An application using location technology to enhance safety and security in the mining industry has won the Opmantek Award for high-achieving final year students in Griffith University’s School of Information and Communication Technology. The app, OnSite, was created by the Blink Software team of Robert Chatfield, Luke Harback and Rhys Williams for their industry client […]

A group of South-East Queensland high school teachers will be immersed in the latest computer technology when they attend a three-day professional learning program hosted by Griffith University and sponsored by Google. The Google Computer Science for High Schools program begins today (October 2) at the Gold Coast campus and will involve 28 teachers in […]

An application developed at Griffith University and which helps children feel less anxious when entering hospital has received a merit at the 2014 National iAwards. The awards were announced in Melbourne last week and since then the team representing the School of Information and Communication Technology has been invited to attend the 2014 Asia Pacific […]

An interactive “storybook” style app is making trips to Gold Coast University Hospital (GCUH) less daunting for children. Kidz@GCU Hospital, which is based specifically on the GCUH experience, allows youngsters to follow the journey of six characters through a hospital visit and learn about procedures such as plaster casts and stitches, as well as X-rays, […]

Griffith University students were among the highest achievers at the 2014 GovHack National Awards in Brisbane. Leading the cohort from the School of Information and Communication Technology was Mick Davies, who recently graduated from the Logan campus and whose project, SocialTest, won first prize for Best Use of Queensland Government Data. SocialTest is a Web […]

Whether you’re a digital designer, web or app developer, Open Data expert, visualisation guru or just simply IT savvy, you’re invited to GovHack on the Gold Coast. The 48-hour event is open to teams interested in using Open Data to find innovative solutions to challenges facing government. GovHack will be held at Griffith University’s Gold […]

Technology developed by an Australian company with strong connections to Griffith University is being hailed for providing human-machine interaction far superior to that of today’s smartphones and other communications systems. The ‘virtual assistant’ technology is the creation of Cognea Artificial Intelligence, headed by Chief Innovation Officer Mr John Zakos – a Griffith Science and Information […]