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31 October 2008 -
Hair today,
gone tomorrow: tracking hair loss and growth - CSIRO has developed
maths-based imaging technology to measure hair on different parts of the
human body.
Images.
6 August 2008 -
Research
agreement to reveal secret lives of cells - Cells will get a dose of
reality TV when image analysts at CSIRO and cell biologists at the Garvan
Institute of Medical Research work together to observe their secret lives.
Images.
15 July 2008 -
Using
biostatistics to detect disease outbreaks - An internationally
recognised authority in biostatistics, Harvard University Professor Louise
Ryan, is working with CSIRO researchers to help improve the way statistics
are used to detect disease outbreaks in Australia.
2 July 2008 -
Symposium to
explore opportunities from the information explosion - A symposium
this week organised by CSIRO and the Statistical Society of Australia will
explore how technology is generating masses of information and creating
exciting home-grown opportunities for new services for business,
government and consumers.
30 June 2008 -
Whales
and water quality as environmental statisticians meet in Melbourne
- It may sound strange to us, but one of the ways to figure out how
many whales are in the ocean is to figure out how many whales observers
don’t see.
Images.
14 May 2008 -
Pianos, pasta and lollies: the maths of the good life - CSIRO
mathematician Dr Bob Anderssen knows a thing or two about the good life.
He does the maths that makes it good.
Images.
17 April 2008 -
Not just about
trucks: logistics course delivers the goods - With Australia’s
logistics sector representing about 10 per cent of GDP, there is a lot
more to the sector than trucks. Integrating complex networks of suppliers
is the focus of a CSIRO and Logistics Association of Australia (LAA)
course next month which gives a US and Australian perspective on the
science of logistics.
12 february 2008 -
Move over C-3PO, here comes Snakebot - Robots
that look like snakes could be used for search and rescue operations of
the future. Daniel Barrett, a robotics engineering student from UNSW
working at CSIRO this summer, is one of 72 vacation students participating
in CSIRO's Big Day In this week.
Images.
7 January 2008 -
Holiday maths makes
for happy campers - Holidaymakers are touring Australia this January
thanks to some military maths getting them the campervan they want, when
and where they need it.
Images.
7 November 2007 -
From molecules to the Milky Way: dealing with the data deluge - Most
people have a few gigabytes of files on their PC. In the next decade,
astronomers expect to be processing 10 million gigabytes of data every
hour from the Square Kilometre Array telescope. And with DNA sequencing
getting cheaper, scientists will be data mining possibly hundreds of
thousands of personal human genome databases, each of 50 gigabytes.
Images.
3 August 2007 -
Animated beer
smooth to pour - Researchers from
CSIRO and Korea’s ETRI will pour a virtual glass of beer in San Diego next
week at SIGGRAPH 07, the world’s largest computer graphics conference, to
showcase their innovative fluid special effects software.
Images.
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