“Despite the fact that we live in an ‘information age’, and are finding out more and more about the universe, some people seem determined to reject knowledge. For example, in…
OMG, YouTube a valuable educational tool, not just cat videos
For many, YouTube is little more than a deluge of low-quality videos depicting the latest internet craze or conspiracy theory, perhaps some painful-looking accident, music videos and video-bloggers of dubious…
Listening to the Thames
What do you discover when you listen to one of the most iconic rivers in the world? A unique project between a scientist, an artisit and a musician plunges into…
Public Lecture – Wearable Technology: The edge of the BOOM! – Part 1
To launch the 4th edition of IMPACT @ Griffith Sciences public lecture was held at the Brisbane Square Library. Dr David Rowlands, Deputy Director of Griffith’s Sports and Biomedical Engineering Lab, SABEL, gave…
Public Lecture – Wearable Technology: The edge of the BOOM! – Part 2
In the 2nd half of the public lecture to launch the 4th edition of IMPACT @ Griffith Sciences Dr Rowlands will introduced our special guest Judd Armstrong, CEO of Jaybird…
Transport Innovations with Dr Matthew Burke
How transport projects and policies are changing our cities and changing our way of life In the last two decades Queenslanders have created world leading transport projects that are now…
Dr Matthew Burke Profile
“Transport planning is a dynamics area of research; everyone has an opinion when it comes to transport,” starts Dr Matthew Burke, lead researcher with the Urban Research Program. Dr Burke…
Are we smarter than Dinosaurs?
Guest lecture from NASA’s Jenn Gustetic 66 million years ago, the dinosaurs had a very, very bad day thanks to an asteroid at least 10 km wide. Since 1998, NASA…
Deep learning from big data
Deep learning from big data – Solving the world’s problems through artificial intelligence technology The world of big data starts when we talk about petabytes, 1 million gigabytes of information (equal…
Professor Jon Olley profile
How much information can a single grain of sand give you? According to the Australian Rivers Institute’s Professor Jon Olley quite a bit: from the origins of Australia’s cultural history…