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Cyber security for the AI age

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Talk like a cyber security expert Cyber security — the protections and measures taken against digital threats, namely cyber criminals Generative AI — artificial intelligence that is capable of generating media (such as text or images). Cyber security breaches are rarely due to issues with the cyber security technology itself.

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I, chatbot: How ‘human’ should chatbots be?

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Published: Love them or hate them, chatbots are having an increasing role in the technological space, now that artificial intelligence has developed to a stage where they can be genuinely useful in fields such as healthcare, defence and finance. TALK LIKE A COMPUTER SCIENTIST.

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Online battles: combatting false information and reducing online risks

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Artificial intelligence (AI) — computer algorithms and systems able to perform tasks that would typically require human intelligence. Digital services suck up data about us in different ways,” says Sarah Turner, Research Student at the iCSS. TALK LIKE A… CYBER SECURITY EXPERT.

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Creating software that works for everyone

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Through the HumaniSE Lab’s research, it has become increasingly apparent to the team that a more inclusive approach to software design is needed. Field of research : Software engineering. Research project : Developing accessible software for diverse end users. Funder : Australian Research Council.

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see?

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Imaging the invisible: how can research software and imaging techniques help scientists study the things we can’t see? Dr Joanna Leng , from the University of Leeds in the UK, is a research software engineer who designs and develops the software that allows scientific imaging devices to be used to their full potential. Pinterest.

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How can we unravel the complex history of networks?

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Dr Min Xu, a statistician specialising in network analysis at Rutgers University, has developed a probabilistic model that can determine how a network has grown, which not only has applications in epidemiology, but is also useful in social science, genetics and counter-terrorism efforts. What is a network? “A

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Charting a Course for “Complexity”: Metamodeling, Ruliology and More

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And so it was that in 1985 I began to promote the idea of a new field of “complex systems research”, or, for short “complexity”—fueled by the discoveries I’d made about things like cellular automata. And while they used computers as practical tools, they never made the jump to seeing computation as a core paradigm for thinking about science.