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  • Eureka: Winners 2008
    • Winners were announced at the Australian Museum Eureka Prizes Award Dinner on Tuesday 19 August. The page lists the winners per category. Australian Museum, 19 August 2008
      20 August 2008
  • Minister congratulates Eureka Prize winners
    • Senator Kim Carr, Minister for Innovation, Industry, Science and Research has congratulated the winners of the Eureka Prizes, announced in Sydney. Senator Carr announced the winners of two prizes ? the Australian Government Eureka Prizes for Science Journalism and Promoting Understanding of Science. Minister - Innovation, Industry, Science and Research Media release, 20 August 2008
      20 August 2008
  • Open access responds to public's hunger for knowledge
    • Albert Einstein is on YouTube. Plato is on iTunes. And professors at Harvard and Stanford have begun freely sharing their work on the Web with anyone who is interested. We may just be entering a new era in the public right to knowledge. Mercury News, 10 August 2008
      20 August 2008
  • Librarians' networking site gets new abilities
    • WebJunction, an online learning community for librarians and library staff, has launched new social and learning applications for the site. The site, first started with money and backing from the Online Computer Library Center and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, had 30,000 individual members even before the revamp. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 14 August 2008
      20 August 2008
  • Eckermann-TJA Prize 2008
    • Entries are invited for the Alcatel Lucent Broadband Environment Challenge for the best paper offered to the Telecommunications Journal of Australia on the theme of applying broadband telecommunications to deliver significant benefits to environmental sustainability. The paper must describe original work carried out by the authors, and must not have been previously published in a refereed publication. The deadline for submissions is 12.00 noon Eastern Australian Time on Monday 6 October 2008.
      20 August 2008
  • ACER Research Conference 2008 - Special Address by The Hon Julia Gillard
    • Ms Gillard delivered a special address to the ACER Research Conference on 11 August 2008. ACER News, August 2008
      19 August 2008
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