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Eight papers accepted at world’s most prestigious machine learning conference

Eight papers detailing bleeding-edge machine learning research written by scientists from CSIRO’s Data61 and collaborators have been accepted by NeurIPS (Neural Information Processing Systems) 2020, the largest and most prestigious machine learning conference in the world.  

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New research reveals it’s possible to digitally disappear from camera detection

New research from CSIRO’s Data61 in partnership with South Korea’s Sungkyunkwan University and the Cyber Security Cooperative Research Centre (CSCRC) has revealed that object detectors found in smart cameras can be exploited with relative ease. 

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New form of blockchain protocol coined most efficient in the world

A new form of blockchain protocol has been coined the most efficient in the world, with potential applications extending to digital health, online banking and government use. Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 and Monash Blockchain Technology Centre co-created the new protocol, which is both secure against quantum computers and protects the privacy of its users and...

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The future of COVID-created workplace: Insights

Prior to the pandemic, around 30 per cent of Australians worked from home at least part-time, with these numbers steadily increasing year on year. The pandemic has drastically accelerated that shift, but permanency of this switch is now being scrutinised as organisations plan their post-pandemic operations.

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How data science is helping astronauts prospect for lunar ice

The moon will once again play a crucial role in the space race, but this time as the gatekeeper to the solar system, acting as a link in the planetary supply chain.  Ice deposits found in shadowed craters near the poles can act as resource wells for visiting astronauts, providing not only drinking water for humans and crops, but the key component needed to create rocket fuel.  By manufacturing propellant...

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Are you ready for the next wave of digital innovation?

Economic crises provide a rare opportunity to refresh the policy context, change direction and build new sources of wealth generation. Digital technology will be central to the rebuild of the Australian and global economies.

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‘Tech will accelerate in dark times, says CSIRO’s Data61 boss’

Jon Whittle, the new boss of CSIRO’s Data61, the national science agency’s data and digital specialist division, believes some serious innovation will emerge from the dark economic times induced by the coronavirus. He believes technology will be at the core of Australia’s economic revival on the way out of the pandemic. “History shows that economic...

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The industries and actions crucial to Australia’s COVID-19 economic recovery: Insights

The policy question for strategists trying to regenerate the embers of our dampened economy is which industries can provide an immediate boost to employment and which can sustainably boost employment into the future but require re-skilling and investment?    

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Our data-driven role in tackling COVID-19 in Indonesia

Complex problems require sophisticated solutions, and when it comes to adapting to a global pandemic, capturing and making sense of vast amounts of data is critical to help mitigate societal and economic impact. Also, intelligently using non-traditional source of data such as social media and integrating it with traditional sources such as telecommunications and surveys to improve spatial and temporal granularity is extremely...

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How to accelerate problem-solution fit with discovery sprints

Any founder, product manager or user experience (UX) designer will tell you that the key to building products that people want is to first find the right problem to solve.  Many of the product and design frameworks that have come to life over the past decade concentrate on human-centred design, and begin with a customer problem. But...