Tag: Deakin University

Quickstep strikes carbon fibre partnership with Deakin, CRC

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Local carbon fibre producer Quickstep has entered a new engineering collaboration with the Sovereign Manufacturing Automation for Composites Cooperative Research Centre and Deakin University’s Institute for Intelligent Systems Research...

Deakin Trailblazer hands 20% of funds to Recharge Industries

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
Deakin University has awarded one-fifth of its $50 million University Trailblazer grant, received from the federal government last month, to Geelong-based Recharge Industries, a portfolio company of Scale Facilitation....

Victoria hosts $16.4 million bio-waste recycling project

Posted on   |  by Brandon How
A Deakin University-led partnership is creating a $16.4 million ‘BioFactory’ accelerator project for recycling food waste, agricultural waste, and marine by-products. The Victorian Government is contributing $10 million to...

AFP’s new hacking powers referred to committee

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government will refer legislation handing sweeping hacking powers to the AFP to the Parliamentary intelligence and security committee amid concerns the extraordinary new powers would lead to “poisoned...

Advanced Fibre Cluster taps AI for materials tests

Posted on   |  by James Riley
The Advanced Fibre Cluster Geelong has been awarded a Defence Science Institute (DSI) Smart Ideas Grant to help develop Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions for composite materials integrity testing. The...

Privacy office is still ‘severely underfunded’

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
Australia’s regulator for privacy and freedom of information missed all but one of its performance goals in the last year, leading to concerns the agency is “severely underfunded” and...

CLOUD Act data sharing deal concerns

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
There are calls for the federal government to put on hold its plans to secure a data-sharing deal with the US during the coronavirus pandemic so proper scrutiny can...

Govt AI ethics ignore our laws

Posted on   |  by Denham Sadler
The government should focus on enforcing existing laws and strengthening regulations to govern the use of artificial intelligence, rather than its “fluffy” ethics framework, according to Deakin University senior...

CSIRO maps carbon fibre future

Posted on   |  by James Riley
CSIRO boss and former Silicon Valley denizen Larry Marshall used all his pitching powers to try and wow the troops at the National Press Club this week, revealing Australia’s...