Alison Donnellan – Algorithm

Our billion-dollar AI opportunity

Originally published by InnovationAus.com Like electricity, artificial intelligence (AI) is a general purpose technology that has the potential to drastically alter societies through its impact on economic and social structures. The AI revolution is not on the horizon — it’s already here. In fact, AI is estimated to generate $13 trillion in economic activity across the...

NationalMap – High-value data is innovation driver

Originally published by InnovationAus.com As the world has become increasingly digitised, data is playing a critical role in almost every aspect of society. Data has the power to provide invaluable insights and drive innovation for policymakers, in turn, contributing to communities, the economy and even the local environment. A recent study by Microsoft which explored the...

Leadership Insights

Spotlight on Women in Tech – Dr. Sara Khalifa

We’re talking to Dr. Sara Khalifa from the Data61 distributed sensing systems group (DSSG) on her career journey and why she pursued career in tech. GIVE US A BRIEF OVERVIEW OF YOUR CAREER JOURNEY IN TECH SO FAR AND YOUR CURRENT ROLE AT DATA61. My career journey started in my home country of Egypt in...

Engineering identity from anonymity: Our work on risks of re-identification

As you’ve no doubt read, either through Algorithm or national news, data is everywhere. We create and consume data continuously. This data is specific to us, but when consolidated, this shared data can be of immense value. The value is not only for population level insights. An example – it has been identified that data...

D61+ LIVE Answers: Artificial Intelligence and its impact on your future workplace

The Australian workplace is changing more rapidly than ever before, driven by a combination of elements that enable a smarter, faster, and more powerful future. The rise of artificial intelligence (AI) is one such foundation, with digital technology transforming once time-consuming and manual tasks into speedy, safe, and efficient processes that need little to no...

D61+ LIVE Answers: What a digital-driven economy will demand of Australian business

We’ve seen first-hand how digital development is impacting our nation. New industries and jobs are being created, while existing industries are transforming and are demanding new skills and approaches. While Australia offers world class research expertise and a skilled workforce, our nation is currently lagging behind its OECD peers in digital innovation. This digital technology...

Strategic Insights

Closing in on online hate speech with graph machine learning

Over three decades, the Internet has grown from a small network of computers used by research scientists to communicate and exchange data to a medium that has penetrated almost every aspect of our day-to-day lives. It’s hard to imagine a life without online access for business, shopping, and socialising. But a technology that has connected...

Robotics

CSIRO’s Data61 SubT team at the DARPA’s Tunnel Circuit event

Data61’s SubT team took part in the DARPA (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency) Subterranean Challenge Tunnel Event in Pittsburgh, USA on the 15th August. Just before the team took off to the US, we caught up with Fred Pauling, Robotics and Autonomous Systems Group Leader, Data61. A squad of five autonomous robots and our SubT...

Strategic Insights

Mixed Reality Lab to house ‘game-changing’ digital twin technology

Imagine the future of smart factories, where the digitalisation of the full value chain (design, production, and distribution) would enable real-time situational awareness and lead to better decision making and planning. This advanced method of production is at the core of CSIRO’s Data61 Mixed Reality Lab. A ‘technology game-changer’ for manufacturing and multiple other industries,...

Cashing in: Australia’s role in $1trn robotic revolution

In his latest op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, CSIRO’s Data61 CEO Adrian Turner explores how we can unlock the economic and societal benefits of robots. Fifteen international teams from Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, Iran, Japan and Portugal recently descended on Sydney for the 2019 RoboCup Millennium Challenge. Eleven fully autonomous virtual robots known as...

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