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Web of worries: are you unknowingly loading malicious content from “trusted” sites?

Love it or leave it, the World Wide Web is here to stay. In a mere 20 years, the Internet has evolved from a fledgling ‘network of networks’ developed by Tim Berners-Lee to the all-encompassing behemoth that it is today. Worldwide, over 56 per cent of the population has access to the internet. That’s 3.2...

Bees with backpacks fly into schools

From apples and almonds, to coffee and cocoa, one third of the food we consume each day relies on bees and their pollination services. Bees are the world’s most prolific pollinators of food crops, and the estimated value of pollination services from managed honey bees in Australia ranges up to $6 billion a year. These busy...

Australia’s love of city-dwelling could become an export strength

Below is CSIRO’s Data61 CEO Adrian Turner’s latest op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, which looks at how Australia’s love of cities might translate into new digital exports. Australia’s love of city-dwelling could become an export strength Israeli philosopher and author of Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari, posited that humans succeeded as a species because of...

Artificial intelligence in Australia needs to get ethical, so we have a plan

This article was originally published on The Conversation. The question of whether technology is good or bad depends on how it’s developed and used. Nowhere is that more topical than in technolgies using artificial intelligence. When developed and used appropriately, artificial intelligence (AI) has the potential to transform the way we live, work, communicate...

CSIRO’s Data61: A global inspiration for digital innovation

Which policy approaches best promote adoption of digital technologies and collaborative innovation? The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has highlighted CSIRO’s Data61 as a global blueprint for digital and open innovation. In a case study released with its “Digital Innovation: Seizing Policy Opportunities” report, the OECD pointed to Data61’s unique capabilities, ambition and network...

Looking into the blockchain crystal ball

It has been heralded as having the potential to revolutionise the internet and change the nature of trust, but now the excitement around blockchain may give way to a more prosaic outlook. More than ten years after the genesis of blockchain, the Australian Computer Society, or ACS, wanted to take a hard look at this...

Data61’s role in creating standards for the consumer data right

Read about our contribution to a new effort to grant more control over data to consumers

Programming Australia to lead robotics globally

The robotics and autonomous systems sector is growing rapidly, and is set to be worth $23 billion by 2025. From self-driving cars and IoT-connected cities to autonomous drones creating 3D maps of underground mines, there’s no denying we’re in the midst of the fourth industrial revolution — the intersection of the physical and digital worlds.

March media wrap-up

This month, our work across robotics and blockchain took the spotlight. Media highlights: News of our Robotics Innovation Centre was covered extensively. Have a look at some choice pieces from the Australian Financial Review, Courier Mail, 4BC and CIO Magazine. Our CEO, Adrian Turner, gave a keynote at the ADC Global Blockchain Summit in Adelaide...

Making the virtual real: hypersonic flight and self-healing cars

Below is an extract of Data61 CEO Adrian Turner’s latest op-ed in the Australian Financial Review, examining the potential for advanced manufacturing and artificial intelligence in an Australian context. Read the full piece here. Making the virtual real: hypersonic flight and self-healing cars Hypersonic flight is here. It’s defined as flight at Mach...