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9 December 2009 -
Personal patient data
improves surgery success - Australian surgeons are leading the world
in using a new statistical model that predicts an individual patient's
chances of success for a common type of vascular surgery and guides
patient care.
3 December 2009 -
CSIRO
researchers create giant waves - CSIRO scientists have created ‘rogue
waves’ more than 20 metres high and smashed them into virtual oil and gas
production platforms to compare different mooring designs.
Images
25 November 2009 -
New computer
cluster gets its grunt from games - Technology designed to blast
aliens in computer games is part of a new GPU (Graphics Processing Units)
computer cluster that will process CSIRO research data thousands of times
faster and more efficiently than a desktop PC.
Images.
20 October 2009 -
Finding the ASX200 for marine ecosystems - Researchers are building
the environmental equivalent of the ASX200 as a means of monitoring the
health of Australian marine ecosystems. The state of an ecosystem can be
understood by measuring the right ecological characteristics, just as the
ASX200 index shows the state of the Australian stock market by following
200 selected stocks.
31 August 2009 -
Opals set to shine with new grading technology - CSIRO and a
consortium of Australian Opal miners (Opal Producers Australia Limited)
have unveiled the world’s first automated device to grade opals using
image analysis, at the 2009 National Council of Jewellery Valuers forum in
Sydney.
23 July 2009 -
Exotic maths making finance a less risky business - CSIRO has extended
its partnership and licensing agreement with GFI
FENICS, the market standard for pricing and analysing Foreign-exchange
(FX) options.
The new agreement extends the provision of novel mathematical methods to
FENICS customers worldwide via CSIRO’s exotic options pricing software.
20 July 2009 -
Australia’s top models at science conference - Australia's top models
will take centre stage in Cairns this week as scientists meet to discuss
ways to understand climate change, improve air safety and enhance
agricultural sustainability.
The IMACS/MODSIM Congress will attract more than 650 experts in modelling
and simulation from Australia and overseas to the Cairns Convention Centre
from July 13-17, 2009.
18 February 2009 -
Harvard
Professor heads CSIRO maths research - A Professor and former Chair of
Biostatistics at the prestigious Harvard University in Boston, USA, Dr
Louise Ryan, has been appointed Chief of CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics.
5 February 2009 -
Measuring molecules
to improve drug design - CSIRO has patented an improved microscopy
method for measuring the shapes and sizes of proteins which could help
scientists create new pharmaceuticals that are a better match for the
proteins they target.
Images.
9 January 2009 -
Improving international supply chains for wine - Some of the world's
leading experts in wine industry logistics will attend a CSIRO-hosted
workshop in Melbourne next week to discuss how international wine supply
chains can be improved to ensure consumers receive the best wines
possible.
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