Data61 and CSIRO Algorithm

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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...

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Data61’s Dr Stefan Hajkowicz on the new normal with Bloomberg News

“This is a great reset, which also means there’s a chance to start doing things better.” – Dr Stefan Hajkowicz. How has the COVID-19 pandemic changed our world? Data61’s Dr Stefan Hajkowicz sharing his strategic insights with Bloomberg News, explaining that there’s plenty of silver lining.   What does the new normal look like? Data61’s...

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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...

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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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AI-powered tool predicts serious disease three months before official announcement

A new artificial intelligence-powered tool has predicted the 2014 Ebola epidemic three months before it was officially declared, with researchers currently applying it to assist in predicting the spread of the coronavirus in Australia.  Developed by CSIRO’s Data61 in collaboration with University of NSW, the tool combines natural language processing, data science and statistical time series modelling to identify specific syndrome keywords and their...