New guidelines for screen time for children should make it easier for parents.
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Updated guidelines for how much screen time children can have puts most of the onus on the parents to decide.
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Could reservoir computing be a future alternative to silicon chips?
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This year marks the 30th birthday of .au domains. We’ve come a long way but there’s big change ahead.
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We’ve all called up IT for help and been asked to turn our machines off and on again. Here’s why.
Seymour Papert lectures on LOGO, computers and education.
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Seymour Papert’s vision has helped computers become widespread in education today, and gave birth to the movement to teach children to program.
Gone to waste: not enough of Australia’s obsolete electronics are being recovered.
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Australia is among the world’s top ten users of electronic and electrical products. But our systems for recycling the resulting ‘e-waste’ fall a long way short of other rich nations.
The Titan Supercomputer, in the US, has allowed scientists to study ice formation on wind turbines at a molecular level.
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Developing new technologies requires time-consuming, expensive and even dangerous experiments. But now we can carry out many experiments entirely on computers using modelling.
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New research shows how adding memory to bacterial circuits could help us harness their computing power.
The fragmented remains of the Antikythera mechanism.
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A bronze artefact rescued from a Greek shipwreck could hold the secrets of the universe.
‘All Greek to me, mate.’
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When we ditched high-school Latin we lost a great intellectual training. Here’s how to get it back without resorting to a dead language.
Too many girls are opting out of IT in school so we need to make it more mainstream.
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Too many girls are missing out on learning IT and computer programming skills that could serve them well in the future economy.
Geoff Hill and Trevor Pearcey in 1952 with the CSIR Mk1, the world’s first computer to make music.
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It might not sound like the best music in the world, but Australia was the first by a matter of months at playing a tune on a computer.
Jamie Milpurr translates archived stories told by his grandfather Frank Ambidjambidj with help from his grandmother Margaret Marlingarr. The stories were told in Kun-barlang, a language spoken on Goulburn Island with 20 speakers remaining.
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A clever proces similar to Google’s image search is helping to preserve some of the world’s 7,000 languages that are at risk of disappearing.
Computers may be smarter than humans at some things, but are they intelligent?
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Computing has been getting much smarter since the idea of artificial intelligent was first thought of 60 years ago. But are computers intelligent?
Computer modelling can help in the fight against the spread of disease.
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It took a computer to discover the potential threat of a drug-resistant strain of swine flu that was about to spread from New South Wales. So how close did we come to a global pandemic?
Viewers can now select what they want to watch and when they want to watch it.
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The switch from analogue to digital television transmission transformed the way audiences consume content.
Detail of ‘The Morteratsch Glacier, Upper Engadine Valley, Pontresina,’ by Albert Bierstadt, 1895.
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A new field of research aims to deepen, and even quantify, our understanding of artistic style. We use mathematical techniques to help discover novel insights, even in well-studied paintings.
The impressive computer aided design of the atrium at Melbourne’s Federation Square.
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The architect’s pen and paper were replaced by the mouse and monitor thanks to developments in computing. Now computers are helping create designs never thought possible before.
Advances in computing make it possible to model the spread of disease on an individual level, in a population of millions of people.
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Millions of people die or suffer from infectious diseases each year. Computer modelling can now help simulate the impact of any spreading disease.
Creating images with fractals thanks to a computer program.
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The greatest tool of artists is their imagination but throw in a computer and things never imagined become possible.