New director of NICTA Canberra lab to emphasize computer vision

Dr. Sylvie Thiébaux of Australia National University has been appointed as the new Director of the Australian National Information and Communications Technology Center of Excellence (NICTA) Canberra Laboratory. An expert in artificial intelligence, Dr. Thiébaux said that "strengthening our leading research capabilities in computer vision" is part of the plans for the 145-person Canberra Lab.

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