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Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Dilusha Weeraddana

We’re talking to Dilusha Weeraddana from CSIRO’s Data61’s Data City on how her love of mathematics brought her to a career in AI, how her work is creating impact, and what change she thinks needs to happen to bring more women into STEM.

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Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Claire Mason

We’re talking to Claire Mason from CSIRO’s Data61’s Inclusive Socio-Technical Innovation team on how social science ties into technology, why gender diversity is important in STEM, and the advice she’d give to someone wanting to pursue a career in STEM.

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Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Claire Naughtin

We’re talking to Dr. Claire Naughtin from CSIRO’s Data61’s Insight team on what she loves about working in STEM, how her career began, and how women can be better supported and enabled to enter STEM fields.

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Spotlight on Women in Tech: Dr Marthie Grobler

We’re talking to Dr. Marthie Grobler from the CSIRO's Data61's Human Centric Security group on her career journey, why she pursued career in tech, and the advice she'd give to someone wanting to pursue a career in STEM.

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AI can now learn to manipulate human behaviour

Artificial intelligence (AI) is learning more about how to work with (and on) humans. A recent study has shown how AI can learn to identify vulnerabilities in human habits and behaviours and use them to influence human decision-making. It may seem cliched to say AI is transforming every aspect of the way we live and...

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New version of Spark to be used nation-wide to model and predict bushfires

Australia will develop a nationally consistent bushfire modelling and prediction capability under an agreement announced of February 4th between CSIRO’s Data61 and AFAC, the National Council for Fire and Emergency Services. The partnership involves the development of Spark Operational, a cutting-edge bushfire simulation tool based on Data61’s Spark fire prediction platform. Fire and emergency service agencies...

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This new data privacy tool is ensuring anonymous COVID-19 data stays secure and private

All it takes for an individual to be reidentified in an anonymous dataset are three crucial pieces of information – birth date, gender, and postcode. These factors are arguably the most asked questions when filling out a form, and with every interaction with digital technology recorded, protecting people’s privacy and information can be challenging. But...

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Advancing Supply Chain Integrity in Australian Agriculture workshop

To boost the value of Australia’s exports and build on our brand, we need to validate the quality, safety and provenance of our products. Using the red meat sector as a use case, CSIRO is developing technologies that can validate claims about the origin of a product, its authenticity and adherence to ethical production practices,...

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Data61’s 2020 Year in Review highlights

As we mark our fifth year, we take a look back at some of this year’s highlights, including our teams’ innovative COVID work, the research we’ve commercialised - such as the NSW Digital Twin and Wildcat robotic mapping technology – our joint report with Austrade on the future of global trade and investment, our numerous award wins and research paper acceptances, and finally, the appointment of Data61’s new Director, Jon Whittle.

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Exploring QLD caves autonomously with our robot fleet

While the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) Subt-T Challenge might be postponed because of COVID-19, CSIRO’s Data61 Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group undertook a home-grown challenge of their own at the Chillagoe-Mungana Caves in North Queensland recently.