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New app is a step towards helping people with Parkinson’s Disease walk more
August 07, 2023UNSW biomedical engineers have developed new software that trains people with Parkinson’s to improve their gait.
opens in a new windowOPINION: Two authors are suing OpenAI for training ChatGPT with their books
July 10, 2023Mona Awad and Paul Tremblay’s lawsuit claims their books were used without their consent. But copyright protection doesn’t apply to ideas – they’ll need to demonstrate the likelihood of economic loss.
opens in a new windowSeven UNSW Sydney projects selected as Eureka Prize finalists
July 19, 2023UNSW researchers have been named as finalists in Australia’s most high-profile science awards.
opens in a new windowTwo UNSW Sydney academics win Australian innovation awards
July 14, 2023UNSW academics have been presented with awards at the Collaborate Innovate 2023 conference for innovative projects in the areas of dentistry and artificial intelligence.
opens in a new windowUNSW Sydney leads in the latest round of CRC-P funding
July 03, 2023More than $13 million has been awarded across cloud gaming, recycling, manufacturing technologies, quantum computing, and sustainable healthcare packaging.
opens in a new windowUNSW Sydney rockets into the global top 20 in latest QS Rankings
June 28, 2023The University has placed equal 19th with the University of Sydney in the global rankings, reinforcing the city’s reputation as a top global city for higher education.
opens in a new window2023 Ada Lovelace Medal awarded as women engineers honoured by UNSW
June 28, 2023Dr Marlene Kanga AO, Dr Fatemeh Salehi and Dr Olivia Mirza were all recognised at the prestigious UNSW Women in Engineering Awards.
opens in a new windowUNSW Sydney awarded more than $3m for ARC Linkage Projects
June 21, 2023There are nine new grants for industry and community collaboration to fund research in engineering, law and science.
opens in a new windowUNSW researchers honoured in Women in AI Awards
June 20, 2023Academics from UNSW Science and UNSW Engineering were recognised for their work in artificial intelligence in health and AI innovation.
opens in a new windowAI reveals hidden traits about our planet's flora to help save species
June 20, 2023Machine learning can help extract important information from the huge numbers of plant specimens stored in herbaria, say UNSW Sydney scientists.
opens in a new windowMedical Emergency Team: from an idea to saving 10,000 Australian lives each
June 29, 2023They prevent more deaths than almost any other single hospital intervention, but implementing Medical Emergency Teams in hospitals was no easy task.
opens in a new windowFormer NSW minister to head up new UNSW-UTS hub driving trustworthy digital
May 01, 2023Victor Dominello will lead the Trustworthy Digital Society Hub to advance digital services prioritising security and ethical considerations.
opens in a new windowARC Research Hub for Resilient and Intelligent Infrastructure Systems opens
May 01, 2023The new research hub will deliver technologies to address Australia’s critical infrastructure needs.
opens in a new windowOPINION The defence review fails to address the third revolution in warfare
May 01, 2023AI is going to fundamentally transform how nations wage far. By failing to address it, the defence review leaves Australia unprepared for the future of war.
Professor Flora Salim wins competitive Cisco Research Gift
April 24, 2023Prof Salim received a Cisco Research Gift for her research into Mobility Question Answering (Q&A) for Natural-Language-based Spatio-Temporal Forecasting
opens in a new windowOPINION: Have you given away secrets on ChatGPT?
April 18, 2023Curious about how ChatGPT can help you at work? Be careful what company information might be given away while experimenting, warns a UNSW Business School professor.
International Women's Day in AI and STEM Celebration – Cracking the Code
April 13, 2023On International Women’s Day 2023 (Wednesday 8 March), the UNSW Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute, the Women in AI Australia network and the UNSW Data Science Hub (uDash) organised an event titled the ‘International Women's Day in AI and STEM Celebration – Cracking the Code’.
opens in a new windowAAUT 2022 Awards recognise two outstanding UNSW academics
March 07, 2023Congratulations to Associate Professors Ang Liu and Michael Kasumovic for each being awarded a Citation for Outstanding Contributions to Student Learning, as part of the 2022 Australian Awards for University Teaaching (AAUT), a highly competitive and prestigious national accolade.
opens in a new windowUNSW academics awarded more than $1.6m for joint Australian-US artificial i
February 20, 2023Researchers will develop solutions to tackle challenges relating to drought, environmentally harmful emissions and infectious diseases.
opens in a new windowBard, Bing and Baidu: how big tech's AI race will transform search results
February 10, 2023Today, if you want to find a good moving company, you might ask your favourite search engine – Google, Bing, or DuckDuckGo perhaps – for some advice.
opens in a new windowOne of the next big AI disruptions could be in music
February 07, 2023The past few years have seen an explosion in applications of artificial intelligence to creative fields. A new generation of image and text generators is delivering impressive results. Now AI has also found applications in music, too.
opens in a new windowChatGPT: Amazing AI engineering can be beneficial - but needs to be used in
February 03, 2023UNSW Sydney experts in computer science, business, and arts and media explain why ChatGPT can be valuable technology, if treated with caution.
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An AI named Cicero can beat humans in diplomacy
November 28, 2022In a rare piece of good news from Meta, artificial intelligence researchers at the company have just announced a scientific breakthrough. Their AI program named Cicero can now play the board game Diplomacy at a human level.
opens in a new windowUNSW Researchers Awarded the Google Inclusion Research Funding
November 25, 2022UNSW Researchers working on enhancing the learning experience of students with cognitive deficits have received the Google Inclusion Research Award.
opens in a new windowUNSW Alumni Awards celebrate 50 years of tremendous achievements
November 10, 2022UNSW Sydney has announced its 2022 Alumni Award winners at a gala event, celebrating 50 years since the presentation of the first Alumni Awards.
Engineers light the way to bionics of the future
October 26, 2022A multi-disciplinary team at UNSW has found a way to convert nerve impulses into light, opening the way for more scalable neural implants.How shoring up drones with AI helps surf lifesavers spot sharks
October 28, 2022Discerning whether that dark splodge in the water is a shark or just, say, seaweed isn’t always straightforward.UNSW Sydney’s ground-breaking innovations on display at Research Expo
October 26, 2022One hundred life-changing UNSW innovations and capabilities were exhibited at the inaugural UNSW Research Translation Expo held on Tuesday 25 October at the Roundhouse.'Killer robots' will be nothing like the movies show
October 18, 2022'Killer robots' will be nothing like the movies show – here’s where the real threats lie. The sentient, murderous humanoid robot is a complete fiction, and may never become reality. But that doesn’t mean we’re safe from autonomous weapons – they are already here.Two UNSW academics recognised as Fellows by ATSE
October 19, 2022UNSW academics are named Fellows by the Australian Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering for their innovative work in solar technology and geotechnical engineering.opens in a new windowArtificial intelligence may improve suicide prevention in the future
October 06, 2022Machine learning algorithms could be more accurate and reliable than conventional methods of predicting suicide risk.AI is creeping into the world’s courts. Should we be concerned?
September 28, 2022Artificial intelligence can improve access to justice, but could come into conflict with important legal values and even cause harm, new research finds.opens in a new windowUNSW academics receive $3.3m to help endometriosis sufferers and improve...
September 28, 2022UNSW academics receive $3.3m to help endometriosis sufferers and improve clinical registries Obstetrician and gynaecologist Jason Abbott and health data expert Louisa Jorm have been awarded two Research Data Infrastructure grants from the Department of Industry, Science, Energy and Resources.opens in a new windowUNSW launches Artificial Intelligence (AI) Institute
September 13, 2022The new flagship university-wide research institute will support the activities of over 300 UNSW researchers working across AI.New inexpensive Wi-Fi system improves fire detection
August 23, 2022A Sydney Harbour Tunnel explosion showcases the work of UNSW researchers using wireless signals and artificial intelligence to more accurately identify dangerous fire situations.UNSW researchers named as 2022 Eureka Prize finalists
July 27, 2022Six UNSW Sydney projects chosen as finalists for Australia’s leading science awards.The AI, Cyber, Modelling and Simulation for SME growth Symposium
June 07, 2022The AI, Cyber, Modelling and Simulation for SME growth Symposium was organised in person at the Powerhouse Museum of Applied Arts and Sciences (MAAS) in Sydney, on 2 and 3 May 2022. The event was organised by CSIRO, UNSW AI Institute, and the Powerhouse Museum.UNSW AI Institute organises an event on AI and Medicine
June 03, 2022The UNSW AI Institute organised the first in-person event on campus after the official establishment of the centre. The event was organised in conjunction with the Faculty of Medicine and Health on 31st May at the Design Next Studio Ainsworth Building.
