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Professor Colless joins the University after a long and highly-distinguished career in astronomy, most recently as Director of the Australian Astronomical Observatory. He has published more than 230 articles which have notched up nearly 15,000 citations. Four of his papers are in the 1000 most-cited astronomy papers of all time, and since 2007 Professor Colless himself has been ranked in the top 250 most-cited researchers in space sciences in the previous 25 years.

His awards include the Professor MK Vainu Bappu Gold Medal in 1994, being a finalist in the Eureka Prize for Scientific Research in 2001 and 2002, receiving the Royal Astronomical Society Group Achievement Award in 2007 and being made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society in 2009 for his work on galaxy structure and evolution.


One of Australia’s foremost astronomers, Professor Matthew Colless, has today been announced as the new Director of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics at The Australian National University.

Israel, Do you mean Palestine

What will you get when you search on Google for 'Israel', yes a bunch of links which talk about the country Israel. But in an Arab fashion the result is different.

Israel, Do you mean Palestine. But here in the fashion text google, the leading search engine used to indicate the world of politicians, but just a search engine.

Two academics from ANU to the Royal Society of London

Two Australian National University academics are today been elected to the Royal Society of London, the longest standing scientific academy in the world.

Professor Brian Schmidt of the Research School of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Professor Hugh O’Neill, Associate Director of the Research School of Earth Sciences, are among 44 scientists from around the globe who have been honoured by the Society for their contribution to science.

Professor Schmidt was elected for his part in the discovery that the Universe is expanding at an accelerated rate; this work was also recognised with a Nobel Prize last year.

The Society elected Professor O’Neill for his contribution to the field of geology. Professor O’Neill’s work includes research into the chemical composition of the Earth and how the Earth differs from other possible planetary compositions, the origin of the Earth-Moon system, and how melting in the Earth’s mantle relates to global tectonics and Earth history.

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Professor Brian Schmidt
Professor Hugh O'Neill

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The Facebook messenger to chat from your desktop

 

This is not the first application from facebook which is running out of the browser, even though it says Messenger, its covers the other main features from your fb account, notification messages and friend request.

 

The 'docking' function is really cool. Like the 'always on top' in other application this docking will enable the messager window always on left, so the other running application will fill and work on the rest of your screen. But still the user may need an 'always on top' behavior where the actual chat window - which pops out when you click over your friend - goes behind the other application. Also this program will show a pop-up notification when your friends 'Like' and 'comment' your posts.

Mobile Device Application

I did a small analysis about available technologies and possibilities related to the Mobile application development, and the available options are..

1. Apple iOS application
2. Google Android application
3. jQuery Mobile with HTML (Web page)
4. Standard web development using CSS3 and HTML5 (Web Page)

Requirements – Apple iOS development

1. Apple developer licence - basically cost $100 per year to host the application with App Store – This may be not needed if we are planning to run the application without apple server ( I have to confirm on the possibility of this)
2. Mac OS machine (iMac or Mac Book) to develop the XCODE.
3. This works only in Apple Mobile devices

Requirements –Android

1. PC with android SDK is needed to develop on this platform – this can be done in-house.
2. Android also need a developer license for developing applications and hosting on the Android Market ( This may be not needed if we are planning to run the application without Android Market , I have to confirm on the possibility of this)
3. This only works in Android powered mobile devices.

Requirement – Option 3 and 4

1. The tools and computer what we have are enough to develop mobile web pages using CSS and HTML. Basically these are web pages behave like touch response application.
2. This will work in any smart phones/devices.

Conclusion
Native mobile application (apple or android) seems to be stable than a web page act like a mobile application. But the easiest and quickest method is to go for a mobile friendly web page.

Opening a Bank account

It was a friday on the 5th of 2010, I have been to Commonwealth bank of Australia to open an account for my self.

Does it need to have yellow as the main colour for a bank which acts the national bank in each country?
This is the third time I am facing it. Now it is ‘Commonwealth bank of Australia’. It is not national bank anyway, but it looks like.

To open a savings account they requested on my passport. An the lady who was handling my request was polite, her granddaughter’s was really pritty in the gymnastic session photos was decorating her grandma's work place. She said that my Debit Card will be delivered to the postal address after commenting about the big letters (AUSTRALIA) of my t-shirt.

I placed sum amount of money into my account as an initial deposit, and collected the temporary password for the internet banking. They gave me two letters for my employers to transfer my salary to my account where I haven't a Job. Ha.. Ha..

http://www.commbank.com.au/
http://netbank.com.au/

I felt I am so lucky

I got up in the morning - my first wake up in Australia - and looked out through the window, I saw a land full of trees has grown taller, and the sun rays was measuring the height of them. I felt I am so lucky – what else you need in the life of a human being.

It is a pleasure to be a part of them, But I took my digital SLR and shot them down.

The truth is every body is lucky, it might take some time to release that, period.

I haven’t done much in my first day of Australia except eating and sleeping.