University of Wollongong

The University of Wollongong, usually shortened to UOW, is an Australian public research university based in the suburb of Keiraville, within the coastal city of Wollongong in New South Wales, roughly 80 kilometres south of Sydney. Its history begins in 1951, when a division of the New South Wales University of Technology was set up in the city to teach diploma courses; that division became the Wollongong College of the University of New South Wales and was formally opened in 1962. The college was constituted as an independent university in 1975. Since then it has grown into a multi-campus institution with regional campuses in New South Wales, several campuses in Sydney, and international centres in Dubai, Hong Kong, India and Malaysia, enrolling more than 33,000 students as of 2023. In the history of computing it matters as the home institution of the Centre for Computer Security Research, which the cryptographer Jennifer Seberry founded there after joining in 1992.