Computing gives us tools to preserve disappearing languages
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.
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Computers may be evolving but are they intelligent?
Computing has been getting much smarter since the idea of artificial intelligent was first thought of 60 years ago. But are computers intelligent?
Computing told us how close we came to a global pandemic of a drug-resistant flu
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?
Computing changed the ‘flow’ of watching television
The switch from analogue to digital television transmission transformed the way audiences consume content.
Computing helps with the complex design of modern architecture
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.
Computing helps the study of infections on a global and local scale
Millions of people die or suffer from infectious diseases each year. Computer modelling can now help simulate the impact of any spreading disease.
Computing gives an artist new tools to be creative
The greatest tool of artists is their imagination but throw in a computer and things never imagined become possible.
To understand the brain, it helps to make a computer model of one
The brain is the most complex organ and system know to humans. It helps to create a computer model of one to find out how things work, and why things go wrong.
Computing can help save the koala by predicting where they can survive
Computer modelling can help predict where a species will best survive, especially those affected by climate change.
The history of computing is both evolution and revolution
The first in our series looking at the changes that have been made in computing and other areas in the 60 years since the first computer in an Australian university was switched on.
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