It’s critical we update flood guidance
There’s been some progress in incorporating climate change into engineering design, but flood guidance must keep up with our changing climate … →
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Akansha Pandey: building a career in cybersecurity
An opportunity to combine computer science with technical business expertise inspired Akansha Pandey to move from India to Australia to undertake a Master of Information Systems. Akansha shares her story about her budding career in cybersecurity.
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The dark side of electronic medical records
Clinical decision support systems help doctors ‘do the right thing’ by their patients, but they can also be exploited – Australia needs to think about regulation sooner rather than later
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Saving lives by predicting catastrophic landslides
Potentially deadly landslides and mine or tunnel collapses can be predicted weeks in advance thanks to a new tool developed at the University of Melbourne.
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Creating clean transport fuels from waste
By extracting biofuel from agricultural and urban waste, researchers hope to create a low-cost, zero emission transport fuel for the future
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When one feral cat just isn’t another feral cat
Students have demonstrated that artificial intelligence can identify individual feral cats in the wild in what could be a step forward in the fight to control them
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Do you think better when you’re moving?
Using advanced biomechanics, researchers found the results of a cognitive task to identify visual targets were significantly improved when performed while walking
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Developing new solutions to power human capability augmentation
From spy gadgets to the bionic eye, these researchers are using engineering and technology to augment human capability →
Computer vision and deep learning to sharpen our view
Research is underway to emulate the cognitive speed and efficiency of human vision →