The ICT Centre has been a big winner in CSIRO’s recent revision of research priorities, with a substantial increase in research dollars being directed our way. In dollar terms, the CSIRO ICT Centre will see its budget increase by over 14% to $48M in 2006/07, which includes a substantial increase in its involvement in CSIRO National Research Flagships ($5.3M to $12.7M) to address research issues of national significance.

Of course, this new funding is in addition to the recently announced Intelligent Island funding that will be invested into establishing an ICT Centre presence in Tasmania.

I actually spent much of today interviewing candidates for our most recent software engineering position; if our growth continues at its recent pace (and the increased funding almost ensures this) I should probably get used to spending a lot more time interviewing people.