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    In Media releases, News
    Posted December 27, 2014

    Holiday road trips made easier with maths and stats 

    NEWCASTLE, 27 DECEMBER 2014: Thousands of Australians will be hitting the roads this summer; cars packed with eskies, tents and boogie boards. But who makes sure the roads are safe, the traffic [...]

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    By Mari Ericksen
    In AMSI in the news, News
    Posted December 10, 2014

    UTS first to make maths compulsory for undergraduates

    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 [...]

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    By Mari Ericksen
    In AMSI in the news, News
    Posted December 9, 2014

    Counting the cost of national maths failure

    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 [...]

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    By admin
    In AMSI in the news, News
    Posted December 4, 2014

    Ebola outbreak: Mathematicians play a vital role in the quest to develop a vaccination

    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 [...]

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    By admin
    In Media releases, News
    Posted November 28, 2014

    Eradicating Ebola with mathematics and statistics

    MELBOURNE, 28 November 2014. The most effective and, perhaps, surprising weapons in our current battle against the spread of diseases like Ebola, HIV and cancer may prove to be mathematics and [...]

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    By admin
    In Media releases, News
    Posted November 12, 2014

    Detecting firewall loopholes: human vs computer

    Understanding firewall rules is time consuming, complicated and hard. The majority of people know how to turn their firewalls off, but do these people know exactly what it is they are doing or [...]

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    By Mari Ericksen
    In AMSI in the news
    Posted October 30, 2014

    Infection projections: how the spread of Ebola is calculated

    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 [...]

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    By Mari Ericksen
    In AMSI in the news
    Posted October 30, 2014

    Technology lessons v thinking

    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 [...]

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    By admin
    In AMSI in the news, News
    Posted October 23, 2014

    Inside the mind of teenage maths genius Alex Gunning

    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 [...]

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    By admin
    In Media releases, News
    Posted August 27, 2014

    Innovative intern program launched to inspire women in science

    Women in science, industry and the Victorian economy will all benefit from an innovative internship program being launched today by veski and APR.Intern.

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