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Treating video like a mutating gene could improve surveillance software.
One way to cut your household bills could be to deal with just one company for all your utility needs. With today’s technology, it’s an idea that’s not so far fetched as it sounds.
To attract the most crowdfunding, a product should be framed as either new or useful.
Technology is driving a revolution in the way radio astronomers study the universe, and it could lead to new discoveries.
We don’t know whether electricity generators are bidding in “good faith” because they are providing data in a form that defies analysis.
Knowing a city’s professional network ratio helps to understand how connected its inhabitants are to other markets, customers and ideas. All support innovation, adaptation and city growth.
A new study connects the dots between published science and patented innovations, mapping just how society benefits from basic scientific research.
Artificial intelligence now plays as big a role in election campaigns as traditional campaign tactics.
July 30 marks the United Nations’ World Day Against Trafficking in Persons. How can computer scientists help combat this problem?
We should consider how artificial intelligence will impact how we teach, what we teach, and its potential to ethically support innovation and improvement in education.
Smart machines are about to usher in the age of Industry 4.0.
The disruptive impact of intelligent machines and new social movements will force us to remake citizenship into a more personal pursuit over the next 150 years.
Today algorithms are ubiquitous, yet often misunderstood. Rather than mysterious entities, they’re closer to recipes, and the quality of the output depends on the input – in their case, data.
Methods stemming from decades of research on disordered materials are used to describe algorithmic phase transitions, and to design new algorithms in machine-learning problems.
The Supreme Court may soon hear a case on data-driven criminal sentencing. Research suggests that algorithms are not as good as we think they are at making these decisions.
By embracing a style beyond the typical classroom lecture, math education can serve all of our students better.
Big data shows that we may need to rethink heart attack treatments.
Welcome to the new Wild West.
The in depth story of a student project that paved the way for a society-level shift in how we use computers.
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Professor, Director of Big data and smart analytics lab - IIIS, Griffith University
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Vice Chancellor’s Senior Research Fellow, School of Global, Urban and Social Studies, RMIT University
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Applied Ethics and CyberSecurity, Griffith University
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Adjunct professor, UNSW ; University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Information Sciences and Technology at Altoona campus, Penn State
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Lecturer and Teacher, Department of Politics and International Relations, Cardiff University
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Assistant researcher, University of Sydney
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Honorary Fellow, Space and Astronomy, CSIRO; Western Sydney University
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Fellow of the Faculty of Engineering and Information Technology, University of Technology Sydney
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Associate Professor, School of Law, University of Canberra
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Professor of Cybersecurity, Head of School of Computer Science and Informatics, De Montfort University
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Bernard A. Galler Collegiate Professor of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan
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Senior Lecturer, The University of Queensland
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy, UMass Lowell
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Senior lecturer, University of Twente