• The Data Airlock

    The Data Airlock

    One of the challenges in the AiLECS lab is finding ways to deeply collaborate with our AFP colleagues in machine learning model development. It’s one thing to sit around a…

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  • A meandering journey: introducing Greg Rolan

    A meandering journey: introducing Greg Rolan

    As is sometimes customary, I’ll open with a joke.  Well, actually, my wife’s joke. She and I used to watch ‘The Big Bang Theory’. She would say that, while most…

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  • My Pictures Matter

    My Pictures Matter

    Machine learning does all sorts of things for us, from the mundane to the extraordinary. But where does the underlying data that those algorithms and AI models train on come…

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  • Writing the future

    Writing the future

    When I was little and learning how to write, I asked my mother why the words had to go from left to right on the page. She told me that…

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  • Watch, Listen and Learn: How a Partnership is Building AI to Tackle Crime

    Watch, Listen and Learn: How a Partnership is Building AI to Tackle Crime

    “Watch, listen and learn!” This was the advice given to me on my first shift with the Australian Federal Police (AFP) twenty-three years ago.  That advice still resonates all these…

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