Google AI cash to help Sydney Uni cut heart attack risk
The University of Sydney will use a $1 million prize from Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org to aid the development of an AI-based digital health program to cut the risk of heart attack.
The University of Sydney will use a $1 million prize from Google’s philanthropic arm Google.org to aid the development of an AI-based digital health program to cut the risk of heart attack.
A two year study has discovered 2040 malware-laden counterfeit apps in Android app store, Google Play.
Monash University’s chief information officer Trevor Woods will join this University of Sydney in September as its new CIO.
Facebook is backing an Australian research project to help it better regulate the hate speech that starts and spreads on its platform.
Surgery carried out with the help of robots is already well established, with machines like the Da Vinci Surgical System being used at a number of hospitals in Australia.
The collaborative spirit within the quantum computing research community is bearing fruit with joint research by scientists at UNSW and the University of Sydney which has “overcome a fundamental hurdle” in the field.
In a paper published in journal, Physical Review Letters today, University of Sydney scientists have demonstrated the use of codes designed to detect and discard errors in the logic gates of quantum machines.
The NSW Government has backed a proposal for a SQA, which will see researchers from four universities collaborate to advance quantum technologies.
For the first time, the University of Sydney hired a security guard to man the door at a public lecture this week, given by the director of digital espionage research centre Citizen Lab, Ron Deibert.
The University of Sydney is on the hunt for a new chief information officer, with the incumbent, Mike Day, departing at the beginning of March.
The institute will undertake research in the emerging field of quantitative fairness and work with the public and private sectors to put the research into practice. It will release open source ethical AI tools that can be adopted and adapted, says director Bill Simpson-Young.
Sydney start-up Q-CTRL has launched its inaugural product – Black Opal – which it describes as “the world’s first commercially available software suite designed to improve the performance of quantum computing hardware”.
“We can now propose a pathway to build robust entangled states for logic gates using protected pairs of photons,” says Dr Andrea Blanco-Redondo from Sydney Nano Institute.
At the business ends of the extensive web of fibre optic cables that thread around the world, the pulses of light they carry have to be converted into electronic signals.
Researchers say that a test of a blockchain platform developed by the CSIRO’s Data61 division and the University of Sydney’s Concurrent Systems Research Group has demonstrated it can solve some of the problems associated with other distributed ledger-style technologies.