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What is Cybernetics?
8 Jul 2024
Understanding Cybernetics with French scientist Joel de Rosnay
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Photo Essay from the UN Riverwalk process
22 Mar 2024
Gibraltar Creek Woods Reserve, Australian Capital Territory, Ngunnawal Country - Part of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin
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School of Cybernetics invited to parliament
29 Feb 2024
Inquiry into the use of generative AI in the Australian education system.
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New water governance research sheds light on the need for cybernetic approaches as basins become AI-enabled
22 May 2023
Water management and governance is undergoing rapid transformation as cyber-physical systems are deployed across the water sector.
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AI and libraries series: the not-so distant future of AI personas
31 Mar 2023
Digitized memories and digitized artefacts now form the technological basis for bringing history to life.
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AI and libraries series: the age of artificially intelligent search
31 Mar 2023
Libraries themselves are well-positioned to conceive, implement, and use new systems for the production of knowledge.
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AI and libraries series: the view from 1950’s Hollywood
31 Mar 2023
From microfilm and electric checkout to pneumatic tube systems and computerized catalogues, libraries have long been sites of innovation for new tech.
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What can cybernetics and a toaster teach us about cyber security and AI?
12 Jul 2022
Dr Amy McLennan, Senior Fellow, School of Cybernetics + Research Affiliate, University of Oxford
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The ethics of automated classification: a case study using a dignity lens
1 Jun 2022
This blog was originally published on Lorenn Ruster’s website.
After the pandemic: Cybernetic systems and an approach to the future
29 Mar 2022
Distinguished Professor Genevieve Bell’s 2021 Garran Oration