Digital technology

Australian writers have envisioned AI for a century. Here are 5 titles that capture our fears well

uqccla15 — Wed, 24 Apr 2024 02:00:59 +0000

22 April 2024Australians are nervous about AI. AustLit has picked 5 titles that it believes expertly capture our sense of anxiety and foreboding.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. The government needs to step up

uqccla15 — Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:43:17 +0000

11 March 2024A new nationally representative survey has revealed Australians are deeply concerned about the risks posed by artificial intelligence.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Inside Australia’s unique literary wonderland

uqccla15 — Sun, 25 Feb 2024 23:08:26 +0000

26 February 2024With more than a million titles, AustLit has become one of the world’s most important and significant literary resources. The team behind AustLit's recent success reflect on its impact.

Digital technology

Impact

Transforming societies

Why Coles just hired US defence contractor Palantir

uqccla15 — Thu, 22 Feb 2024 02:28:58 +0000

22 February 2024What does the Australian supermarket chain Coles have in common with the CIA? Both are now clients of Palantir Technologies.

Business transformation

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Award winner's AI plan to prevent youth vaping

uqccla15 — Tue, 05 Sep 2023 01:14:16 +0000

5 September 2023Vaping has dramatically increased in popularity in recent years, with a 40% surge in users between 2018 and 2022. But what if Artificial Intelligence could stop young people from taking up the habit?

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Transforming societies

��̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

uqccla15 — Mon, 04 Sep 2023 02:11:25 +0000

31 August 2023��̽�� boasts an extraordinary range of unique and mind-blowing capabilities. From supercomputers to cyclotrons for nuclear medicine, these are some of our most fascinating gadgets.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Social understanding

‘Google Human’: designing a map for the cells in the body

uqccla15 — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 04:02:04 +0000

7 August 2023What if we could design a computer application like Google Earth where scientists can zoom in to see not land or buildings, but microscopic human cells up close – and so spot disease?

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

uqccla15 — Mon, 17 Jul 2023 03:58:33 +0000

17 July 2023US Congress will investigate the supposed existence of a secret UFO retrieval program. Here's what you should know.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Materials and advanced manufacturing

What are generative AI systems really doing with our data?

uqccla15 — Thu, 08 Jun 2023 21:52:13 +0000

9 June 2023��̽�� data expert Professor Shazia Sadiq worries that we are not doing enough to manage the risk of AI.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots

uqccla15 — Mon, 13 Feb 2023 02:47:55 +0000

6 February 2023Advanced AI is exciting, but incredibly dangerous in criminals’ hands, writes Senior Research Fellow Dr Brendan Walker-Munro.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

Let's chat about ChatGPT

uqccla15 — Mon, 30 Jan 2023 00:21:02 +0000

30 January 2023Is AI technology saving your time or stealing your job? ��̽�� expert Missy Burrell shares her insights on the latest AI sensation.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Why you should be more vigilant with your data than ever before

uqccla15 — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 02:58:58 +0000

10 November 2022Learn about the ways criminals are using your data against you in the wake of the Optus hacking scandal.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

How AI and mobile weather radars are preparing us for bushfire season

uqccla15 — Tue, 25 Oct 2022 23:35:18 +0000

26 October 2022This ��̽�� project aims to arm firefighters around the world with portable weather radars, giving them the ability to predict where embers might land.

Achieving resilient environments and livelihoods

Digital technology

Environment

What does your city sound like?

uqccla15 — Mon, 04 Jul 2022 22:50:12 +0000

5 July 2022An exciting interactive mobile app, City Symphony, streams a personal cinematic soundtrack while you stroll through Brisbane’s streets and landmarks, revealing a world of audio based on your location. See how it works.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Lessons from the Robodebt debacle

uqccla15 — Mon, 23 May 2022 22:42:14 +0000

24 May 2022While there are benefits to using algorithmic decision-making, including efficiency, cost savings and operational transparency, its use can also have unintended negative consequences. This was the case with Centrelink’s Online Compliance Intervention program – otherwise known as Robodebt.

Business transformation

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Exploring non-fungible tokens

uqccla15 — Thu, 05 May 2022 00:37:27 +0000

1 May 2022There’s never been a better time for brands to experiment with Non Fungible Tokens (NFTs), according to ��̽�� researchers. The Business School shares its top 3 ways for people to capitalise.

Business transformation

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Get your research out there: 7 strategies for high-impact science communication

uqccla15 — Tue, 15 Feb 2022 01:03:43 +0000

9 February 2022From news angles to dealing with trolls, here are seven areas to consider when sharing your findings with the media and wider public.

Business transformation

Digital technology

Social understanding

How AI is being used to fight fake news

uqccla15 — Mon, 14 Feb 2022 23:26:06 +0000

15 February 2022Which sources do you trust to tell you what you should distrust?

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Algorithms and AI: The key to delivering better patient outcomes

uqccla15 — Mon, 10 Jan 2022 01:57:39 +0000

21 December 2021New research from ��̽�� is exploring how algorithms and artificial intelligence-based systems can provide earlier, more accurate and potentially life-saving patient information to doctors and clinicians.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Public and allied health

WATCH: Tracking nanoparticles in living organisms

uqccla15 — Tue, 26 Oct 2021 04:03:08 +0000

26 October 2021Professor Robert Parton explains how nanotechnology is being used to target diseased cells.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

New app to motivate aphasia recovery

uqccla15 — Wed, 06 Oct 2021 04:25:07 +0000

5 October 2021A smartphone app to track and improve communication recovery for stroke survivors with aphasia is under development by University of Queensland researchers.

Digital technology

Leading healthy lives

Who owns our virtual legacy after we’re gone?

uqccla15 — Thu, 30 Sep 2021 01:17:26 +0000

28 September 2021Who decides what happens to our online memories when we’re no longer here to curate them? Who ‘owns’ our virtual legacy? And how do we create new rituals for death and grieving in this era of social media?

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Building dementia tech together

uqccla15 — Wed, 22 Sep 2021 00:56:11 +0000

22 September 2021This Dementia Week of Action, check out the incredible new technology being built by engineers alongside people living with dementia.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Eureka! Scientists strike finals gold in Australia's top science prizes

uqccla15 — Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:27:25 +0000

3 September 2021Projects in Science, Business and Humanities have been nominated for the event which is known as the ‘Oscars’ of Australian science.

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

A vital tool to study virus evolution in the test tube

uqccla15 — Fri, 27 Aug 2021 05:18:25 +0000

9 June 2021Variants of viruses, such as that causing COVID-19, can now be quickly studied in the laboratory, even before they emerge in nature and become a major public health challenge.

COVID-19

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Public and allied health

Trust issues: a roadmap for building confidence in AI

uqccla15 — Mon, 23 Aug 2021 23:11:43 +0000

24 August 2021A world-first research project led by the ��̽�� Business School in partnership with KPMG has discovered 72 per cent of people don’t trust AI.

Defence, cyber and space

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Social understanding

'Digital twin' concept boosts food production

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 23:09:42 +0000

1 August 2021Using technology familiar to computer gamers, University of Queensland scientists are creating ‘digital twins’ of mango and macadamia orchards to help boost food production.

Agribusiness

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Tackling concussion head-on

uqccla15 — Sun, 22 Aug 2021 22:39:22 +0000

19 August 2021Athletes are helping a neuroscientist from QBI tackle the problem of concussion in sport head-on with the aim of developing a quick and cheap test measuring brain recovery.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Leading healthy lives

WATCH: Spear-mouthed pterosaur that soared over dinosaurs in outback Queensland

uqccla15 — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 01:35:48 +0000

10 August 2021Australia’s largest flying reptile has been uncovered, a pterosaur with an estimated seven-metre wingspan that soared like a dragon above the ancient, vast inland sea once covering much of outback Queensland.

Digital technology

Environment

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Visionary surgeon targets further world firsts

uqccla15 — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 21:24:47 +0000

30 July 2021“The most insane thing I have ever done” is how Dr Michael Wagels described the world-first reconstruction of 36 centimetres of a patient’s tibia.

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Designing technology for tomorrow

Digital technology

Ticket to freedom

uqccla15 — Mon, 12 Jul 2021 00:12:10 +0000

12 July 2021Should Australia introduce a vaccine passport?

Business transformation

Digital technology

Public and allied health

Social understanding

Transforming societies

The power of pictures to change global politics

uqccla15 — Wed, 07 Jul 2021 04:51:54 +0000

7 July 2021Professor Roland Bleiker from ��̽��’s School of Political Science and International Studies will lead eight scholars from three universities and four industry partners examining how compelling images can transform the delivery of international aid.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

Regulating hate speech in the Asia Pacific

uqccla15 — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 23:40:41 +0000

6 July 2021A study has analysed a cross section of public pages administered by LGBTQ+ groups in India, Indonesia, Myanmar, The Philippines and Australia and found most felt they had little or no support from Facebook when they were targeted by hate speech.

Digital technology

Social understanding

Transforming societies

The cryptic world of cryptocurrencies

uqccla15 — Tue, 01 Jun 2021 23:06:59 +0000

2 June 2021How does Bitcoin actually work? Is it a good investment? And what on earth is Dogecoin?

Business transformation

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Social understanding

Taking flight with technology for tomorrow

uqsackfu — Thu, 27 May 2021 01:59:33 +0000

10 September 2018To celebrate Research Week 2018, ��̽�� is proud to share how ��̽�� research is creating change, right across the world, every day. Find out how our researchers are collaborating with research partners both in Australia and abroad to develop aerospace technology for tomorrow.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Impact

Through virtual doors to the past

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 05:55:44 +0000

10 January 2018��̽�� architecture researchers are combining architectural history with digital reconstruction techniques to bring historic sites to life.

Digital technology

Impact

Social understanding

All the world’s a digital stage

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 05:30:57 +0000

5 January 2018Researchers are using ��̽��-developed 3D technology to bring theatres and galleries to life.

Digital technology

Impact

Veer right; safe flight

uqsackfu — Wed, 26 May 2021 05:15:44 +0000

5 January 2018Drawing inspiration from nature, studying how bees and birds make decisions to test navigation and safety strategies for unmanned aircraft.

Digital technology

Environment

Impact

Downloading our thoughts to the mainframe may be the stuff of science fiction — but humans have been imagining it for centuries

uqccla15 — Mon, 24 May 2021 01:11:51 +0000

17 May 2021The public intellectual Sam Harris and world-renowned physicist David Deutsch imagine a future where we are able to download conscious states and live in matrix-like virtual simulations.

Defence, cyber and space

Digital technology

Mapping Australia's environment

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:55:10 +0000

22 March 2019Land mapping tools developed by ��̽��’s Joint Remote Sensing Research Program have been adopted by multiple Australian states and industry bodies, helping inform effective environmental management policies at local, state and national levels.

Digital technology

Environment

Impact

Cough a lot? No, Coughalytics!

uqsackfu — Fri, 21 May 2021 05:25:02 +0000

5 January 2018��̽�� researchers are working with hospitals, NGOs and industry to develop non-invasive technology for diagnosing illness, to boost mass health screening and minimise disease.

Digital technology

Impact

Public and allied health

Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark

uqccla15 — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 21:50:56 +0000

16 April 2021A single footprint left by a cat-sized dinosaur around 100 million years ago has been discovered in China by an international team of palaeontologists.

Digital technology

Environment

‘Fish DJ’ tackles fish hearing

uqclayt — Wed, 14 Apr 2021 03:41:03 +0000

3 March 2021A DJ-turned-researcher at ��̽�� has used her knowledge of cool beats to understand brain networks and hearing in baby fish.

Digital technology

Queensland Science making a difference

uqsoutra — Tue, 13 Oct 2020 04:25:07 +0000

13 October 2020WATCH: Discover how ��̽�� researchers are contributing to some of the biggest challenges the world faces – the health of our communities, and environments; the quality and quantity of food available; abundant clean energy; and sustainable economies.

Agribusiness

Biomedical and clinical sciences

Digital technology

Energy, water and resources

Environment

Materials and advanced manufacturing

Public and allied health

Recreating masterpieces at home? People have been doing it for centuries

uqsoutra — Mon, 18 May 2020 04:03:20 +0000

23 April 2020Literally coming to life, paintings are being re-enacted at home with art lovers posing their way into everything from Girl with a Pearl Earring to American Gothic.

COVID-19

Social impacts

Digital technology

Digital technology

Australian writers have envisioned AI for a century. Here are 5 titles that capture our fears well

80% of Australians think AI risk is a global priority. The government needs to step up

Inside Australia’s unique literary wonderland

Why Coles just hired US defence contractor Palantir

Award winner's AI plan to prevent youth vaping

����̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed

‘Google Human’: designing a map for the cells in the body

UFOs, a secret program, and an alleged cover up

What are generative AI systems really doing with our data?

Scams, deepfake porn and romance bots

Let's chat about ChatGPT

Why you should be more vigilant with your data than ever before

How AI and mobile weather radars are preparing us for bushfire season

What does your city sound like?

Lessons from the Robodebt debacle

Exploring non-fungible tokens

Get your research out there: 7 strategies for high-impact science communication

How AI is being used to fight fake news

Algorithms and AI: The key to delivering better patient outcomes

WATCH: Tracking nanoparticles in living organisms

New app to motivate aphasia recovery

Who owns our virtual legacy after we’re gone?

Building dementia tech together

Eureka! Scientists strike finals gold in Australia's top science prizes

A vital tool to study virus evolution in the test tube

Trust issues: a roadmap for building confidence in AI

'Digital twin' concept boosts food production

Tackling concussion head-on

WATCH: Spear-mouthed pterosaur that soared over dinosaurs in outback Queensland

Visionary surgeon targets further world firsts

Ticket to freedom

The power of pictures to change global politics

Regulating hate speech in the Asia Pacific

The cryptic world of cryptocurrencies

Taking flight with technology for tomorrow

Through virtual doors to the past

All the world’s a digital stage

Veer right; safe flight

Downloading our thoughts to the mainframe may be the stuff of science fiction — but humans have been imagining it for centuries

Mapping Australia's environment

Cough a lot? No, Coughalytics!

Tiny cat-sized stegosaur leaves its mark

‘Fish DJ’ tackles fish hearing

Queensland Science making a difference

Recreating masterpieces at home? People have been doing it for centuries

��̽��'s most fascinating gadgets revealed