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Q&A with Professor Jon Whittle, the new Director of CSIRO’s Data61

Professor Jon Whittle has been announced as the new Director of CSIRO’s Data61 after a competitive international search. Professor Whittle is a world-renowned expert in software engineering and human-computer interaction, with a particular interest in IT for social good, AI research in health sciences and sustainable development. He will begin his leadership of Data61 on...

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The Power of AI

This article first appeared in May issue of Company Director, the member magazine for the Australian Institute of Company Directors.   We are seeing extraordinary collaborative efforts to help find a COVID-19 vaccine as the global scientific community shares valuable scientific data and intellectual property. Artificial intelligence has become a key tool in this battle, write...

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Spotlight on National Reconciliation Week

National Reconciliation Week (NRW) is celebrated across Australia each year between 27 May and 3 June. This year’s theme is – In this together – which is a good reminder in our current climate that whether in a crisis or in reconciliation we are all #InThisTogether.  Reconciliation is a journey for all Australians, and at the heart of this...

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Data61’s Dr Stefan Hajkowicz on the new normal with Bloomberg News

What does the new normal look like? Data61’s Dr Stefan Hajkowicz provided some expert commentary on a post-COVID world to Bloomberg News this week, discussing the role of digital technology, teleworking going mainstream, and medical care online.   Dr Hajkowicz is the Senior Principal Scientist of the Insight team at Data61 who specialise in analysing emerging...

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Q&A with Professor Jon Whittle, the new Director of CSIRO’s Data61

Professor Jon Whittle has been announced as the new Director of CSIRO’s Data61 after a competitive international search. Professor Whittle is a world-renowned expert in software engineering and human-computer interaction, with a particular interest in IT for social good, AI research in health sciences and sustainable development. He will begin his leadership of Data61 on...

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Measuring trust in technology using behavioural sensor data

We live in a world that is increasingly driven by automation, and much of our daily thoughts, actions and feelings are directly influenced by highly automated systems – from what we buy on Amazon, to who we vote for in elections, and how safe we are in airplanes.   An increasing number of machines and...

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New algorithms help data scientists connect data points from multiple sources to solve high-risk problems

Fraud and cybercrime are highly complex problems that often require immense amounts of connected and extraordinarily dense data to be organised and interpreted. One of the challenges data scientists face when dealing with connected data is how to understand relationships between entities, as opposed to looking at data in silos, to provide a much deeper understanding of the problem.  Open source graph...

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Eight tips on staying cyber safe during COVID-19 

According to the Australian Cyber Security Centre (ACSC), almost 100 Australians have  reported losing money or personal information to COVID-19 themed scams and online frauds since early March, while popular group video chat services Zoom and Houseparty have allegedly leaked thousands of users’ private data.   As the majority of us continue to work from home and...
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Data Privacy Day: Here’s what you need to know

Hear from the experts on how organisations and individuals can protect themselves this Data Privacy Day, 28 January 2020 January 28th marks Data Privacy Day, “an international effort to create awareness about the importance of respecting privacy, safeguarding data and enabling trust”. There is currently a widespread shift in Australia towards increasing consumer rights around data...

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AI + Indigenous Knowledge a powerful tool posing critical questions

In Kakadu National Park, an invasive weed is choking precious wetlands. Para grass is displacing native plants and reducing habitats for magpie geese, a population considered to be a key indicator of ‘healthy country’ by traditional owners. It’s hard for local park rangers to monitor and manage this weed in this vast landscape – and...

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D61+ LIVE 2019 Highlights video

70 international and local experts speaking, 46 exhibition booths, seven keynotes, 12 panels, five masterclasses, and 1,600 attendees – spanning two days in early October and held at Carriageworks in Sydney, D61+ LIVE 2019 was one of our largest showcases yet. Everything from how researchers can commercialise their findings, what influence a highly-connected world has...

Data61 Mixed Reality Lab

A ‘technology game-changer’ for manufacturing and multiple other industries, the newly launched Mixed Reality Lab in Melbourne will enable organisations to create ‘digital twins’, or computer-generated copies, of real-world objects.

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