It is the largest organization in Australia dedicated to ICT research. While it has close links with local universities, it is in fact an independent but not-for-profit company in the business of doing research, commercializing that research and training Ph.D. students to do that research. Much of the work taking place at NICTA involves various topics in artificial intelligence. In this article, we survey some of the AI work being undertaken at NICTA. National Information and Communications Technology Australia (NICTA) is the largest ICT research center in Australia, having been established 10 years ago in 2002.

Siri was not the first speech recognition application to grace our phones, but its success will help increase expectations for more artificial intelligence in business. Siri combines speech recognition and natural language processing with artificial intelligence and search algorithms in the cloud to behave like an intelligent human assistant. It stops short of predicting, but it sounds like it does. Even more predictive technologies are starting to be applied to business applications to help us wade through the seemingly unsurmountable volume of data compounding every day. Edith Cowan University in Perth is using a predictive model developed by IBM to identify students at risk of leaving a course before they finish.

NICTA is Australia's Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Centre of Excellence. It is the largest organization in Australia dedicated to ICT research. While it has close links with local universities, it is in fact an independent but not-for-profit company in the business of doing research, commercializing that research and training PhD students to do that research. Much of the work taking place at NICTA involves various topics in artificial intelligence. In this article, we survey some of the AI work being undertaken at NICTA.

Program committee for the Twenty-First International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, held in Freiburg, Germany, on June 11–16, 2011.