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With Google and Anthropic support, ANU leverages the power of AI-assisted coding while teaching the core fundamentals

The ANU School of Computing is embedding generative AI into computing education—from introductory data science to agentic software engineering—with major support from Google and Anthropic.

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21
Sep
2026

A deeper understanding of software and privacy leads to a secure future

Dr Xiaoyu Sun discusses software and privacy spanning bug detection, deployment reliability, and the VPD-100k visual privacy dataset unveiled at ICML.

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21
Aug
2026

Translating risk and consequences of emerging technologies to engineers and policymakers

Professor Kathryn Henne discusses how Australia can lead in AI regulation, bridging the gap between social sciences, engineering, and policy.

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13
Aug
2026

ANU Computer Vision Researchers Shine Again at CVPR 2026

Building upon decades of research excellence, ANU computer vision researchers, students, and alumni achieved major awards and acceptances at IEEE…

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08
Jul
2026

Cybersecurity expert protects democracy through academic independence

Dr Thomas Haines discusses how cryptography, cybersecurity, and academic independence safeguard democratic elections.

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05
Nov
2026

Privacy Through Digital Sovereignty: Protecting Australians’ Data One POD at a Time

Researchers at the ANU Software Innovation Institute are pioneering privacy-first infrastructure with the open-source SOLID project, giving…

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02
Jul
2026

Beyond the Algorithm: How One ANU Student Is Helping AI Think More Freely

Undergraduate honours student Harrison Oates discusses all the unique intersectional opportunities at ANU spanning research, student leadership,…

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11
Jun
2026

ACL VP-elect Jing Jiang will help steer the future of natural language processing

Recently selected as VP-elect of the Association for Computational Linguistics (ACL), Prof. Jing Jiang will lead NLP's future identity as a…

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28
May
2026

From ANU to Canva and PyTorch: The Award-Winning Work Behind Smarter AI Vision

Applying representation learning to computer vision, Associate Professor Liang Zheng's award-winning data augmentation methods have found…

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13
May
2026

From Melbourne to Dublin: An Outsized Role in the World of AI Planning

ANU hosts one of the largest AI planning groups in the world, a critical mass of researchers solving core challenges at the heart of global AI…

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28
Apr
2026

Tracing COVID-19 variants and millions of years of evolution

How the award-winning IQ-TREE software modeled COVID-19 mutations and informed public health policymaking

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03
Dec
2024

Think Piece: Why Platforms Shouldn’t be Publicly Controlled

Should platforms be publicly controlled? It’s tempting to answer ‘Yes’. Public control seems naturally aligned with public interests because it…

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25
Nov
2024

Australian police are trialling AI to analyse body-worn camera footage, despite overseas failures and expert criticism

The increased use of body-worn cameras by law enforcement agencies in recent years follows a number of high-profile cases involving police using…

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01
Nov
2024

The Thinking Game Documentary Screening, 30 October 2024

The Integrated AI Network screened the documentary The Thinking Game, which follows the story of Google DeepMind.