Special issue: Artificial Intelligence
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UQ research: Training robots to learn and think for themselves
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Titanic’s sinking could have had a far less tragic outcome if a group of robots were on board that knew how to rescue people in the water.
Such thinking isn’t fantastical—these robots will likely be available in the future for any rescue mission, thanks to (machine) learning by trial and error.
A research team at UQ’s Centre for Advanced Imaging is training the algorithms behind the artificial intelligence of such robots to think for themselves using the psychology of how humans and animals learn. And they’re using RCC high-performance computer Wiener to do so.
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RCC supports AI research at UQ
RCC supports artificial intelligence research at UQ in direct and indirect ways, from provision of specialised supercomputing infrastructure—including an HPC and frameworks—to technical support and training events. Read more
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Artificial Intelligence Initiative launched at UQ
A cross-disciplinary group of researchers and academics at UQ working on artificial intelligence and its applications has formed the AI Initiative (AI2) this year. Read more
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Workshop: AI at UQ
A free workshop on AI at UQ for the university’s staff and RHD students will be held on Tuesday, 26 November in QBI's auditorium. UQ's Artificial Intelligence Initiative (AI2) has organised the workshop. More information will be available on the AI2 website closer to the time.
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UQ supercomputer speeds up medical processes
The anxious wait for pathology test results could soon be reduced and lab workflows increased, after UQ researchers were able to accelerate machine learning with one of RCC's specialised supercomputers. Read more
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UQ PhD student wins travel grant to US pathology conference
UQ PhD student Simon Thomas received a travel grant from a major US pathology conference to present his skin cancer machine learning work there this month. Read our 2018 case study and recent update about Simon's work. Read more
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Watch our Rob Farber seminar
about AI's impact on HPC
American neural networks pioneer Rob Farber discussed AI's impact on high-performance computing at a RCC seminar on Friday, 11 October. We recorded the seminar and uploaded it to RCC's YouTube channel. Watch
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Prepare for the change from NCI’s Raijin to Gadi
National Computational Infrastructure (NCI) has released information to help users prepare for the transition from its supercomputers Raijin to Gadi over the next few months. Read more
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Seminar: Environmental Computing on SuperMUC-NG
Prof. Dieter Kranzlmueller of Germany's Leibniz Supercomputing Centre will discuss its partnership model and example use cases from environmental computing in a RCC seminar on Thursday, 31 October. Please register
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RCC at Brisbane's eResAU2019
RCC will be out in force at this week's Brisbane-based eResearch Australasia conference, 21–25 October. RCC will share QCIF’s exhibition booth at the Brisbane Convention and Exhibition Centre (visit us and enter our door prize), and RCC staff will take part in talks and activities. Read more
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Dr Marlies Hankel receives “excellent teacher” nod
RCC eResearch Analyst and HPC specialist Dr Marlies Hankel has received a Commendation for Excellent Teaching from UQ's Science Dean. Read more
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RCC’s Denis Lujanski joins AARNet
QRIScloud Systems Engineer Denis Lujanski left RCC this month to take up a national role with AARNet, the company that operates Australia's Academic and Research Network. Denis will work with AARNet’s cloud services team. Read more
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Hospital nutrition project claims top prize at HealthHack Brisbane
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A system for improving nutrition and food waste in Australian hospitals claimed first prize at this year’s Brisbane HealthHack.
Russell Canavan, Director of Digestive Health at Gold Coast Hospital and Health Service, first brought the “Eat Me” concept to last year’s HealthHack.
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The winning team of HealthHack Brisbane 2019, with Russell Canavan presenting their work at the event (far left). (Image: Dr Nick Hamilton, RCC.)
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This year at the hack weekend, 20–22 September at ThoughtWorks’ Brisbane office, Russell returned to have a team of volunteer coders, visualisers and user-experience designers extend “Eat Me 2” to include real-time nutrition and food waste prediction using machine learning for hospital meals from video imaging.
This automated measurement of caloric intake by patients should save hospital staff time, create less waste, improve malnutrition in hospitals, and improve recovery from illness.
This year was HealthHack’s biggest year yet with more than 100 people attending as hackers who formed into teams to work on nine projects.
RCC was a proud sponsor of this year’s hackathon.
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From Barcelona to UQ: RCC's HPC workshop a success
RCC’s HPC workshop with Professor Jesus Labarta from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center last month was a success, with 23 attendees and a very positive response to the post-workshop survey. Read more
(Photo: Dr Nick Hamilton, RCC.)
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RCC's Introduction to Visualisation and Cytoscape workshop, first held last month, was so popular that we decided to run it again. RCC's Oliver Cairncross and Dr Nick Hamilton co-led the workshop a second time round on Tuesday, 1 October.
(Photo: Dr Nick Hamilton, RCC.)
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12 November: Assembly of Long-Read Sequencing, Brisbane
17–20 November: SIGGRAPH Asia 2019, Brisbane
17–22 November: SC19, Colorado, Denver, USA
21 November: Australia's Data Future Symposium, Sydney
26 November: AI at UQ workshop, UQ St Lucia
Each Tuesday: UQ Hacky Hour, Cafe Nano, UQ St Lucia.
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Cyber security at UQ
National Cyber Security Awareness Month
 Did you know that October is National Cyber Security Awareness Month? Cyber security is a team effort, and there are simple steps you can take to help protect your personal information and UQ’s data. Remember, cyber security is everyone’s responsibility.
Find out more
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