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Innovators tackle WA healthcare’s greatest challenges at 2024 Hackathon

Lucien Wilkinson — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 01:44:52 +0000

An ingenious new approach to reducing Emergency Department waiting times was the main winner of […]

Innovate for impact: WA Health Hackathon 2023

Crystal Fairbairn — Fri, 06 Oct 2023 04:08:23 +0000

The �鶹ֱ�� based WA Data Science Innovation Hub (WADSIH) and the WA Department of […]

Sea of pro-vax tweets drown out anti-vax memes, new study shows

Emma Chadwick — Wed, 09 Aug 2023 08:40:10 +0000

Pro-vaccination tweets outnumbered anti-vax sentiment almost four to one, in new research that canvassed a […]

Conference maps AI revolution set to overhaul every industry

Yasmine Phillips — Thu, 03 Aug 2023 01:39:24 +0000

Artificial intelligence-powered tutors for every child, state-of-the-art medical developments and the death of the call centre are among some of the ways AI will revolutionise every industry sector, a conference has been told.

New agreement to build innovation bridge from India to WA

Yasmine Phillips — Fri, 24 Mar 2023 07:07:55 +0000

A new agreement is seeking to lay the foundations for a start-up bridge between India’s most industrialised state and Western Australia’s thriving innovation ecosystem.

Dashboard data to innovate freight

Karen Green — Tue, 29 Nov 2022 08:17:20 +0000

Freight delays have been frustrating consumers all over Australia. Now, Curtin researchers are collaborating with industry to help ease the problem, with data sharing and blockchain tech.

Wreckage from famous warships explored in 3D on anniversary of sinking

Vanessa Beasley — Fri, 18 Nov 2022 09:00:12 +0000

�鶹ֱ�� reveals a new large-scale 3D reconstruction of the wreck site of HMAS Sydney (II) and the HSK Kormoran following a battle off the coast of WA during WWII.

Curtin-developed machine learning ‘phones home’ for famous Martian rock

Yasmine Phillips — Tue, 12 Jul 2022 14:32:49 +0000

New Curtin-led research has pinpointed the exact home of the oldest and most famous Martian meteorite for the first time ever, offering critical geological clues about the earliest origins of Mars.

Leading chair in big data appointed

Yasmine Phillips — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 21:36:06 +0000

A new Chair appointment will greatly enhance Western Australia’s international competitiveness in artificial intelligence, image analysis and computation involving large medical datasets.

Inaugural data science conference goes ‘back to the future’

Yasmine Phillips — Wed, 22 Jun 2022 16:40:55 +0000

Western Australia will need an extra 3,000 data scientists to ensure we lead the digital revolution, the State’s inaugural data science conference has been told this week.

New agreement uses big data to improve WA health care

Yasmine Phillips — Tue, 17 May 2022 15:51:53 +0000

The Curtin Centre for Data Linkage has developed a new and innovative way of connecting data across general practices, hospitals, registries and government departments, which reduces privacy risks.

Data scientists turn a new page for open-access books

Yasmine Phillips — Mon, 11 Apr 2022 18:12:44 +0000

A Curtin team of data scientists will help take open-access books to a sophisticated digital future through a pilot project that seeks to enhance the diversity of voices.

Consistent asteroid showers rock previous thinking on Mars craters

286333f — Thu, 20 Jan 2022 17:43:53 +0000

New �鶹ֱ�� research has confirmed the frequency of asteroid collisions that formed impact craters on Mars has been consistent over the past 600 million years.

On time and under budget: efficiency through optimisation

Jarrad Long — Mon, 09 Jul 2018 00:42:35 +0000

Professor Ryan Loxton, Dr Elham Mardaneh and Dr Qun Lin are solving optimisation problems that overwhelm even high performance computers.

Pawsey Centre challenges Australia’s elite scientists

�鶹ֱ�� — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 23:24:00 +0000

In one second, the supercomputer Magnus is able to perform more calculations than the entire Australian population could in 21 years.