'Vaccine' for machine learning models developed by CSIRO's Data61
Researchers from CSIRO’s Data61 have formalised a technique to ‘vaccinate’ machine learning models against adversarial attacks and make them more robust.
Stories by George Nott
Seeing the signs (and locating them) with Google Street View and deep learning
Street signs are everywhere, but where they are precisely is not always known by the local government authorities that manage them.
WA path lab system project management slammed by auditor
Two years late and $23.7 million over budget, the roll-out of a pathology lab information system by the Western Australia government has been slammed by the state’s auditor general.
Cubesat training and research centre launches
A new centre which will ready a generation of skilled workers to enter Australia’s burgeoning space industry has officially launched in Sydney.
The chatbot with its own office and personal (human) assistant
Chatbots provide a way for customers to transact with companies from wherever they are at any hour of the day.
SAS’s CEO-in-waiting lays out company's AI-driven future
The CEO-in-waiting of analytics software firm SAS, Oliver Schabenberger, has set out the company’s strategy to help clients bring more automation to their data science and AI efforts, at an event in Sydney this morning.
RAC’s driverless Intellibus hits the road in regional WA
The Royal Automobile Club of Western Australia (RAC) is trialling it’s driverless electric shuttle bus in the seaside town of Busselton.
Veteran reskilling startup helping big firms quit 'fire and rehire' cycles
A firm which helps military veterans find technology and cyber security roles is now working with large companies to help them reskill existing workforces and stop cycles of ‘fire and rehire’.
Call for bigger, better social robot therapy trials
Researchers from the Australian Centre for Robotic Vision are calling for large-scale, major trials of social robots in health and wellbeing settings, after an analysis of current experiments found them to be limited and few in number.
WA Police pilots 'Söze' AI engine to automate evidence analysis
When investigating a crime, police often end up collecting terrabytes of digital evidence including emails, texts, social media posts, photographs and CCTV footage.
How a handful of USB sticks are revealing the secrets of the Great Barrier Reef
Dr Robin Beaman compares the feeling of collecting his USB sticks from boats returning from the Great Barrier Reef to opening gifts on Christmas morning.
NEC face recognition tech to screen athletes at Tokyo 2020
NEC facial recognition technology will be used to screen athletes, volunteers and staff at stadiums and facilities at next year’s Olympic and Paralympic Games in Tokyo.
Speech recognition tech diagnoses respiratory disorders from coughs
Recording a child coughing on a smartphone app has been found to be almost as effective at diagnosing common childhood respiratory disorders as a panel of paediatricians who had met with the child and reviewed X-rays, lab results and hospital charts.
BHP turns Eastern Ridge mine into innovation ‘proving ground’
Multinational mining company BHP has revealed it has been using its Pilbara iron ore mine Eastern Ridge as a test bed for innovations that, if deemed successful, will be rolled out across its wider operations.
Volvo dodging digital moose while driving in VR headsets
Volvo engineers have been driving vehicles on real roads while wearing virtual reality headsets, dodging digital moose that run out in front of them.