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  • Dominette stands with her calf on the rangeland of a US Department of Agriculture (USDA) research laboratory in Montana.

    Ground breaking findings by an international consortium of scientists who sequenced and analysed the bovine genome, could result in more sustainable food production.

  • CSIRO's ICT centre research scientist Dr Kerry Taylor will co-chair the World Wide Web Consortium's (W3C) Semantic Sensor Network incubator group.

    CSIRO scientists will lead an international initiative to develop standards for sharing information collected by sensors and sensor networks over the Internet.

  • Computer motherboard illuminated in different coloured lights.

    CSIRO’s Machine Vision team is expanding the capabilities of visioning hardware-software, building machines able to automatically process images in real-world conditions.

  • The centre of the image is red, radiating out to orange and blue at the edges.

    CSIRO is working on enabling technologies for future mobile and wireless communications networks and developing next generation imaging and sensing systems.

  • A view of the desktop and wall screens of the Water Resources Observation Network Visualisation Centre.

    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)

  • CSIRO air guitar in action.

    This video interviews Dr Richard Helmer about CSIRO's wearable instrument shirt guitar, which works by recognising and interpreting arm movements and relaying this wirelessly to a computer for audio generation, and then shows him demonstrating the shirt with a backing track. (1:00)

  • A scientist and a member of the public in front of CSIRO's stand.

    Discover what featured on our stand and about the industry forum, AusInnovate.

  • Pictures of the fractions of carbon from rapidly decomposable raw pieces of plants and micro-organisms scanned using electronic microscopy.

    Soil organic matter contributes to a variety of biological, chemical and physical properties of soil and is essential for good soil health.

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