The ICT Centre is CSIRO's national research hub for developing innovative information and communication technologies. These technologies are applied to Australia across the breadth CSIRO’s engagement with industry and society.
The Australian E-Health Research Centre (AEHRC) – a joint venture between CSIRO and the Queensland Government – has joined an international organisation devoted to improving patient and care provider access to reliable medical information.
CSIRO is developing new wireless technologies for locating, tracking, sensing and communicating in areas where global positioning systems (GPS) do not work.
CSIRO and the Department of Climate Change have developed remote sensing tools and technologies that allow Australia to accurately measure land cover change over the past 30 years.
The Climate Adaptation Flagship's planning, design, infrastructure, management and governance solutions are helping revitalise Australia’s cities and coasts in response to a changing climate.
With the development of advanced artificial intelligence technology, CSIRO scientists are taking automated systems process to a new level of capability.
Wearable intelligent textiles, incorporating electronic circuitry and sensors, are well suited to become the basis of the next generation of control systems for many applications of mobile computing, allowing complete freedom of movement.
The Water Research Observation Network (WRON) Visualisation Centre provides an environment for the investigation and development of visualisation tools and interfaces that display information in an engaging and easily understood manner as shown in this video. (2:27)
This video interviews Dr Richard Helmer about CSIRO's wearable instrument shirt guitar, which works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation, and then shows him demonstrating the shirt with a backing track. (1:00)
Dr Peter Corke is CSIRO’s expert on robots and intelligent systems, helping to design devices and systems that perform tasks humans do not want to do, or are unable to do.
Meet Dr Darius Culvenor, who works across a broad range of remote sensing technologies and applications, helping to identify strategically important areas for new technology, skills and business development.
This article from Farming Ahead details how researchers have been collecting information about how cattle interact with each other and exploring the links between animal behaviour and genetics. (3 pages)
This article from Farming Ahead describes how scientists have been exploring new methods of mapping the condition of native vegetation in parts of the Murray Catchment in New South Wales using a combination of technologies. (4 pages)
These are the abstracts for the 2008 Innovation, Services and Smart Information Use symposium, a satellite meeting of the Australian Statistical Conference (30 June - 3 July 2008) in Melbourne.
