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Data Privacy – what is it, why is it important, how to ensure it, and what are its opportunities

Back in 2019, Flo Health’s ovulation tracker app shared private user information with Facebook, alerting the social media giant when a user was having her menstrual cycle or was intending to conceive. That data was then matched to an individual’s Facebook profile, with relevant ads being targeted towards that particular user. When contacted for comment by The Journal,...

How to adapt to and succeed in the Data Economy

Like preceding technologically-driven societal and economic shifts, the Fourth Industrial Revolution, also known as the Data Economy, is making new demands of Australia, as digital technologies, platform business models and rapid advances in the biological and materials sciences are re-defining industries, labour markets and whole societies. The new internet-era global software giants are exploiting a...

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...

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...

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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...

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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,...

Machine Learning made more meaningful through Graph Analytics

In this information age, data is the greatest asset. A successful digital transformation rests on the ability to master data to the fullest extent, despite its ever-expanding volume and complexity. Our world is deeply connected, but connections within data are often not obvious, with this information often siloed and occasionally representing only a partial picture...

Bushfire evacuation tool wins three Merit Awards at iAwards

A bushfire evacuation tool created by CSIRO’s Data61 in collaboration with the Victorian Government and RMIT has won three Merit Awards at the 2019 iAwards. Held in Victoria, the Bushfire Evacuation Modelling program took home accolades in the Research and Development Project of the Year, Infrastructure and Platforms Innovation of the Year, and Community Service...

Where are Australia’s PhD students?

“A PhD is an endeavour in itself and curious minds embarking on the journey of getting one have certainly gone through a truly transformational experience,” says Dr Anastasia Volkova, CEO & Co-Founder of Flurosat who also has a PhD in Aeronautical Engineering. The Australian PhD space has suffered from a persistent lack of data on...

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...