Information Systems

The world’s total store of information is doubling every four years. CSIRO is working on ways to better manage information and assist in making informed decisions.

CSIRO has developed many technologies and solutions that have improved the delivery of government services.

An internationally recognised authority in biostatistics, Harvard University Professor Louise Ryan, is working with CSIRO researchers to help improve the way statistics are used to detect disease outbreaks in Australia.

Australian research into how marine ecosystems are affected by a combination of environmental change, human activity and management decisions, received a boost recently with the award of a CSIRO CEO’s Science Leader Fellowship to marine scientist, Dr Beth Fulton.

Multidisciplinary teams of researchers with expertise in statistics, mathematics, ICT and other sciences are developing capabilities for working with large datasets.

CSIRO and the Australian National University have developed Panoptic™ – a high performance enterprise search engine which allows users to find information faster and more effectively in an organisation’s website.

CSIRO researchers are developing better tools for information workers. These tools are intelligent, adaptable and allow specialised human knowledge and experience to be seamlessly combined with systematised knowledge.

CSIRO has developed software and processes to help biologists, lab managers and technicians manage the mass of data generated by large-scale, high-throughput plant mutagenesis experiments.

The Water Research Observation Network (WRON) Visualisation Centre provides an environment for the investigation and development of visualisation tools and interfaces that display information in an engaging and easily understood manner as shown in this video. (2:27)

The concept of Sentinel Asia is to provide online information from Earth observation satellites in ‘near real-time’ through a network of webGIS services such as the Australian Sentinel Hotspots system. (0.31 secs)

CSIRO’s Dr David Hawking leads a team of researchers who want to help you find what you’re looking for.

Dr Simon Cox is a Research Scientist with CSIRO Exploration & Mining and recipient of the 2006 Gardel award who works in information modelling and the development of data transfer standards, for both geoscience and geospatial information.

The ICT Centre has a range of information and communication technologies available for commercialisation.

In the four years to June 2007, the CSIRO ICT Centre engaged in external business activities worth $41.1m which was undertaken with more than 340 entities. This business is expected to grow to over $50m by June 2008.

These are the abstracts for the 2008 Innovation, Services and Smart Information Use symposium, a satellite meeting of the Australian Statistical Conference (30 June - 3 July 2008) in Melbourne.

The Tasmanian ICT Centre (TasICTC) is creating a world-class ICT sustainable research capability to support the growth and development of industries in Tasmania and delivering national impact.