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Rehome growth centres to CSIRO: WA chief scientist

Brandon How — Thu, 01 Aug 2024 08:41:43 +0000

Australia’s Industry Growth Centres should be given a new lease of life within the CSIRO to uplift practical research outcomes in Australia, according to the longest sitting government chief scientist in Australia. Western Australia’s chief scientist Professor Peter Klinken, who has served in the role for more than a decade, believes the national science agency...

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CSIRO’s Data61 braces for job losses, funding crunch

Joseph Brookes — Sun, 28 Jul 2024 12:10:50 +0000

Researchers at the CSIRO’s Data61 business unit are bracing for job losses and research roll-backs as a funding crunch claims dozens of roles elsewhere at the agency and ends its clinical trial services altogether. According to its union, almost 100 jobs could go at Data61, the CSIRO’s digital research arm established in 2016. The CSIRO...

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CSIRO’s chief scientist role faces uncertain future

Justin Hendry — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:41:51 +0000

The national science agency could axe its chief scientist role as part of a planned restructure that is expected to result in hundreds of jobs cuts. CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton on Monday revealed the agency is reviewing the coveted position, previously held by Professor Bronwyn Fox, to determine whether it still “makes sense”. Professor...

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Australian water tech goes global

Joseph Brookes — Mon, 01 Jul 2024 06:30:40 +0000

The CSIRO’s world-first ground to space water quality monitoring system will be trialled in California in a significant expansion for the national science agency mission. The $83 million AquaWatch mission – one of a handful of the CSIRO’s large scale scientific and collaborative research initiatives – uses Australian made ground and satellite sensors and big...

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National science agency spins up new AI workhorse

Joseph Brookes — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 20:00:24 +0000

The national science agency will launch its new $15 million high performance computing cluster on Friday to speed up research in areas like artificial intelligence, image processing and robotics. It replaces the CSIRO’s 2017 GPU cluster and is expected to deliver a step change in performance with servers and GPUs purpose built for large language...

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CSIRO chief wants a ‘strategic middle ground’ on research

Brandon How — Thu, 27 Jun 2024 10:12:31 +0000

The solution to Australia’s innovation struggles lies in a “strategic middle ground,” between large-scale moonshot missions and spreading limited resources too thin across a multitude of sub-scale programs, according to CSIRO chief executive Dr Doug Hilton, who says the current “Hunger Games” funding system needs to change. As another review of Australia’s research and development...

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Extra $20m allocated to CSIRO’s SME programs

Brandon How — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 02:43:49 +0000

An additional $20 million has been allocated to CSIRO’s SME Connect team to allow it to support the development of as many as 750 small to medium-sized businesses. The funding, which comes out of the national science agency’s existing budget, will enable the delivery of SME support programs until June 2028. Of the funding, $12...

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Debate the policy, but don’t disparage science: CSIRO

James Riley — Fri, 15 Mar 2024 04:00:47 +0000

CSIRO chief executive Doug Hilton has publicly defended the integrity of the national science agency and its scientists after Opposition leader Peter Dutton on Tuesday attacked the organisation over its work on energy transition data. In the growing heat of debate over Coalition nuclear energy policy, Mr Dutton described the CSIRO’s GenCost report on the...

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CSIRO carves off part of Main Sequence

Joseph Brookes — Wed, 07 Feb 2024 19:37:47 +0000

The CSIRO has sold the employment company it set up for its Main Sequence Ventures Fund to members of the investment team so they can pay “market” rates for venture capitalists, a move the agency insists hasn’t diminished its oversight of more than $1 billion under management. Required disclosures to Parliament by Industry and Science...

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‘Delivery science’ is a new model for industry

Mish — Fri, 08 Dec 2023 01:30:54 +0000

With more than a century of experience and significant multidisciplinary expertise, CSIRO occupies the important and niche space of research translation in the Australian research ecosystem. Change is a necessary constant as CSIRO continuously strives to be at the cutting-edge of science and to support industry with the latest technological developments. CSIRO’s current focus is...

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