Alison Donnellan – Algorithm

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...

Featured

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...

Leadership Insights

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...

Leadership Insights

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...

Analytics

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...

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...

Cybersecurity

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...

Cybersecurity

seL4 developers launch open source foundation to enable safer, more secure computer systems

As software becomes ever more complex and intertwined, it is crucial to ensure that systems cannot be compromised by even the smallest of defects. The seL4 microkernel, developed by CSIRO’s Data61, is designed to prevent such compromise. The seL4 Foundation will provide a global, independent and neutral source of funding to support the future of...

Visualisation

How virtual reality and high-performance scientific computing are helping scientists understand how COVID-19 behaves

On Thursday February 20th, Dr Michael Kuiper stepped into cryo-EM 2019-nCoV spike protein structure of COVID-19. The virus had infiltrated a protein within its host, utilising its uniquely virulent composition to take over the individual’s biological processes, transforming a once healthy cell into a mass of viral particles. “See this? This model shows the same lysine and tyrosine residues as the SARS...

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity considerations amidst a global pandemic

We live through unprecedented times. Globally, the coordinated response to the COVID-19 pandemic has led to a large volume of from-home workers that use IT to communicate with colleagues and undertake their work from home. With many companies implementing national guidance and protecting their workforce during the COVID-19 outbreak, the increased use of Bring Your...

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