Media Releases from 2003
25 November 2003 -
3D
Scanner Gives the Full Picture - Displaying jewellery and other small
products for sale over the Internet or managing museum collections of plant
or animal specimens could be revolutionised by new CSIRO technology for
scanning and displaying 3D objects. Images
16 September 2003 -
Smart
Maths for Greener Mill Design - CSIRO has developed an Internet-based
simulation tool that predicts the motion of particles inside grinding mills,
providing insight into the way mills work and enabling huge energy savings
from smarter, more energy efficient design.
webGF-Mill® assesses the design and function of the grinding mills used at
mines to crush ore. Images and animation
27 August 2003
- ICT Outlook Forum: Watch it live on the Web. - www.ictoutlookforum.com.au/webcast.htm
[this link has expired].
Wednesday 3rd and Thursday 4th September, 2003. 8:30am to 5:30pm. The
organisers of ICT Outlook Forum announced today that the event will be
broadcast live on the web. "With the event just seven days away and a
stellar cast of local and international speakers confirmed, we want to
ensure that people around Australia and the world with an interest in ICT
can tune into the event," says Professor Arun Sharma, a member of the
organising committee.
20 August 2003 -
Flying
eyes to keep the power flowing - Major blackouts such as those that hit
North America last week can result from combinations of relatively small
problems, such as trees growing too close to powerlines, according to Kevin
Cryan, Business Development Manager with CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics .
"There seem to have been a number of factors that led to the recent
disastrous blackouts but it's been reported that one incident involved an
overheated powerline sagging and making contact with trees," says Mr
Cryan.
The answer to reducing this threat could well lie in technology developed by
CSIRO.
11 August 2003 -ICT
outlook forum: global trends, local challenges - The inaugural
ICT Outlook Forum will bring International and Australian business and
research leaders to Sydney in September to discuss the challenges and
opportunities for Information and Communication Technology (ICT) research.
11 July 2003 -
Mathematics
and music: Playing a sweeter tune - The link between maths and music is
well established: if you're good at maths, chances are you'll find learning
music easy.
What is less well known is that mathematicians have been behind the
development of some of the great breakthroughs in musical instrument design.
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2 July 2003
-
Poor
search limits Australia's businesses - A CSIRO
study has found that many enterprise search engines don’t recommend the
most useful pages from an organisation’s own site in response to customer
queries.
CSIRO information retrieval expert Dr David Hawking says that many
organisations are not getting value from their search engines.
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23 June 2003 -
The
right tool for the job - Analysing what might seem to be meaningless
masses of numbers can lead to important discoveries, such as a powerful new
anti-cancer drug. But you need to use the right statistical tools, according
to Dr David Mitchell of CSIRO Bioinformatics.
Mitchell’s fellow researchers have developed a new statistical toolkit
especially for the kind of data that biotech and pharmaceutical companies
deal with every day and they are taking it to BIO2003 in Washington DC this
month to get the word out. Images
18 June 2003 -
CMWeb
- a new kind of web - Web users will soon be surfing video and audio
content as easily as text and images thanks to some innovative Web tools
being developed by CSIRO.
Dr Silvia Pfeiffer of CSIRO says the development of the Continuous Media Web
(CMWeb) is as significant a development as was the emergence of the World
Wide Web itself. Images
3 June 2003 -
What
a nerve! Software helps find treatments for neurological disorders -
CSIRO has played a pivotal role in the development of imaging software for a
new instrument that will help researchers discover drug compounds to treat
neurological (nervous system) disorders, such as Parkinson's disease or
spinal cord injury. Such drugs could improve patients' quality of life by
reducing pain or disability. Images
12 May 2003 -
Information
security for online service users - CSIRO scientists have designed a
smarter way to ensure the privacy of personal information for people
accessing Web Services.
CSIRO's privacy model allows the customer using a Web Service to set the
privacy conditions that apply to their personal information, rather than the
service provider. Images
10 April
2003 -
Making
movies and music
at the speed of light
-
High-speed networking technology will soon make it possible to
conduct a music class over the Internet even when the student and teacher
are in different cities.
The same technology will allow movie-makers to work together to produce and
edit a movie over the Internet from far-flung locations.
9 April 2003 -
Beyond
El Niño: Understanding Australia's weather - Improved climate and
drought predictability will be the result of a growing understanding of the
major southern hemisphere weather patterns say CSIRO scientists. They
believe that the Pacific Ocean's El-Niño and La-Niña effects have
counterparts in the Indian and Southern Oceans and that these three major
weather systems interact with each other.
25 March 2003 -
New
tools for cancer diagnosis - Scientists have developed powerful
statistical methods that may lead to improved diagnosis and ultimately,
better treatment of cancers.
CSIRO Bioinformatics, a spin-off company from CSIRO Mathematics, Informatics and Statistics , will highlight this alongside other CSIRO technology
at the Commercialisation Forum & Fair of Ideas on 26th -28th March at
Darling Harbour, Sydney. Images.
6 March 2003
- Keep
your data safe – Put it on the ‘Net - If your company’s
data is really precious you should put it on the Internet according to CSIRO
researchers, Paul Greenfield and Paul Watters. They are developing
technologies to allow collaborators in virtual enterprises to safely and
securely store data on the Internet. images
10 February 2003 -
Museum
pieces come 'alive' - Imagine being able to reach into a glass case at a
museum and feel the objects inside. Imagine the objects coming alive in your
hands, showing you pictures and telling you their stories. CSIRO's virtual
story telling makes this fantasy a reality. Images
6 February 2003 -
The
manual almost writes itself! - If all else fails...read the manual. But
manuals are often so complex that they confuse more people than they help
according to Dr Cécile Paris of CSIRO. "One reason confusion may occur
is that manuals are often written some time after the product, whether it is
a machine, a tool or a piece of software, has been finished," she adds.
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