Is data the next disruptive technology?

By Dr Bronwyn Harch, Chief of CSIRO Computational Informatics.  It has been almost twenty years since Harvard professor Clayton Christensen first […]

Say l8r to SMS: rise of chat apps means it’s time to talk wireless

By Ian Oppermann, Director, Digital Productivity and Services Flagship. The simple pleasure of sending a text message is almost a […]

Cattle farming on the cloud

Part of our Smart Farming series By Claire Harris You jump in your car, glance at the fuel gauge. You […]

Future of farming

Part of our Smart Farming series While sensors, soil moisture probes and super smart cattle tags may seem whacky today, […]

Lasers, blimps and golf buggies… for better rice

Part of our Smart Farming series When we explain to people that we continue to do a lot of research […]

From space to the hose pipe

Part of our Smart Farming series By Claire Harris From a US satellite in space to a farm in Australia, […]

Aussie farmers take a byte out of Big Data

Forget the Internet of Things, this week we are all about the Internet of cows, sheep and oysters! From monitoring […]

CeBIT's best bits

This week we headed down to CeBIT, one of the world’s biggest IT trade shows. Here are some highlights from the […]

You can count on ERIC in a crisis

For most of us, maps help us get from A to B. Our GPS finds the shortest route to a […]

Scanning for suspicious packages just got easier

By Jonathan Roberts, Research Director, Autonomous Systems Lab. Suspicious packages and public spaces go together like, well, like suspicious packages […]

CeBIT – bring on this year’s shiny new bits and bytes

Sydney’s annual CeBIT conference – it’s kind of like Oscars week for the Australian technology industry. Despite the fact the […]

Smarty pants: wearable electronics will recharge your life

By Adam Best, Senior Research Scientist, Energy Technology. Imagine having a wafer-thin touchscreen on your sleeve which, like a scene […]