Welcome to the School of Information Technologies
Welcome to Information Technologies at Sydney. We are committed to excellence in research, teaching and consultancy.
Our research activities are strongly focussed in the areas of algorithmics and applications, enterprise computing, human centred computing and IT applications in health care. Much of our research is interdisciplinary and internationally collaborative.
Our undergraduate and postgraduate courses are accredited by the Australian Computer Society (ACS), teaching fundamental principles and practical skills in IT, and establishing the foundations for an entire career.
The School of IT has a purpose built building with state of the art facilities, maintaining its position as a key teaching and research institution.
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The 2012 National Computer Science School in January brought together over eighty of Australia's brightest young minds for 10 days of intensive programming, robotics and web development. Over the course of NCSS, students learn and refine their programming skills, interact with cutting edge technologies and make new contacts with other like-minded students from across Australia. Read more
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CS4HS@Sydney is a free two day workshop sponsored by Google for high school maths, science and computing teachers to be held on Thursday 12 and Friday 13 April 2012. Read more
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A joint research workshop with the University of Sydney and EPFL in Lausanne will be held on Friday, 10 February 2012 at the Darlington Centre, the University of Sydney. Read more
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Over eighty year 11 and 12 students from across Australia were given the opportunity to present their 'elevator pitch' to a panel of technology entrepreneurs as part of the University's annual National Computer Science Summer School (NCSS) last week. Read more
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The School of IT congratulates all winners and competitors who participated in the first Sydney Hackathon, jointly organised by SUITS, School of IT and Elsevier. Eleven teams engaged in 24 hours of programming, creating thirteen applications on Elsevier's SciVerse platform, a platform used by 15 million researchers and academics. Read more
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Professor Albert Zomaya has been appointed as a Distinguished Speaker by the USA's Association for Computing Machinery.
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The National Computer Science School is calling on high school students with a penchant for computer programming to take part in its annual programming challenge.
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While most teenagers are out partying during their uni years, School of IT student Alex Sharp and two friends were building Australia's first high performance cloud based system.
