AMSI in the news

Article by Andrew Trounson, The Australian. THE University of Technology, Sydney is set to become the first Australian university to introduce a compulsory maths subject for first-year [...]

Article by Natasha Bita, The Australian. WHAT’S five times four? Geophysicist Peter Ridd was gobsmacked to see a first-year university student pull out a calculator to work out the no-brainer [...]

Article by Loretta Florance, ABC News. Loretta interviewed several of BioInfoSummer 2014  speakers about the important role mathematicians and statisticians play in the current battle against [...]

Article by Dr David Lovell, ABC Online Humans may be bigger, but microbes are faster … at evolving that is. But at least we can use maths, stats and heavy-duty computing to stay a step [...]

Article by Dr Jonathan Keith, Health Canal   The number of reported Ebola cases is doubling roughly every five weeks in Sierra Leone, and in as little as two to three weeks in Liberia. The [...]

Article by Jessica Sier, The Australian Financial Review Perhaps thinking like a computer is more important than knowing how to ­program one. Debate in education circles is raging about where [...]

Article by Megan Lehmann published in The Australian on Saturday 18 October 2014. Lehmann’s piece looks at the success of Alex Gunning, a teenage Melbournian who won a gold medal — with [...]

The Commonwealth’s announcement yesterday that it will invest $12 million into boosting STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) subjects in Australian schools is yet another [...]

Article written by AMSI Chairman, Dr Ron Sandland, for ABC Science online, 17 September 2014. Ron asks the question is big data a friend or foe? His opinion: "It can be both!"

UNIVERSITIES letting students with poor maths into science and engineering programs have been put on notice by federal Education Minister Christopher Pyne. Academics complain that maths [...]